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Graphite has been obsolete for 5+ years. There are commercial products with unlimited scaling, great UI, alerting and a hundreds things out of the box (see data

• chinathrow 6y ago
  That's not the point here. OP said, that the Netflix team could at the time deliver scale, while other teams couldn't.
  • hintymad 6y ago
    Yeah, and the key difference is simple: The 100x engineers in Netflix just understood that file-based lookup for key-value pairs won't scale for OLAP-like workload on time series, and of course they possessed the sheer capability of implementing the right technology from ground up.
  • diab0lic 6y ago
    I was on Roy's team at this time. I am not one of the four mentioned in the link, but I definitely know exactly who is being talked about. I wanted to comment that these four were considered outliers even by Netflix standards for being very high performing. So bear in mind the example is an extreme one.
• hintymad 6y ago
  The Graphite story happened more than 6 years ago, or so I heard as I joined after M3 was in production.