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One of my favorite "open source architecture" essays is on Graphite: http://www.aosabook.org/en/graphite.html http://www.aosabook.org/en/graphite.html It's p
by pixelmonkey 9y ago
One of my favorite "open source architecture" essays is on Graphite:
http://www.aosabook.org/en/graphite.html http://www.aosabook.org/en/graphite.html
It's part of the book, "Architecture of Open Source Applications", which has many such essays. This one is freely available -- and quite good.
Graphite is used for the business purpose of simple & fast real-time analytics for custom metrics inside an organization. It was built inside Orbitz and is now widely used at many startups, including my own.
Graphite is now a vibrant open source project with a community around it here:
https://graphiteapp.org/ https://graphiteapp.org/
- sagichmal 9y agoGraphite has long ago hit the end of its useful life. Its limitations especially in the Whisper/RRD storage system are well known and lamented by those who still need to run it. A strictly-superior system (and a great OSS project to learn from, to boot) is Prometheus, https://prometheus.io https://prometheus.io.
- svec 9y agoRe: "This one is freely available -- and quite good." All of the chapters/essays in the "Architecture of Open Source Applications" volumes 1 and 2 are freely available, in case that's not clear on the AOSA website: http://www.aosabook.org/en/ http://www.aosabook.org/en/