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Congrats to the Akita team! Repository is 2 years old. That's a pretty quick exit.
by nickstinemates 3y ago
Congrats to the Akita team! Repository is 2 years old. That's a pretty quick exit.
- swyx 3y agojean yang is pretty much an industry legend at this point, and was hyperfocused on her specific kind of o11y (ebpf based drop-in traffic monitoring) which is an obviously important part of an overall o11y product suite that i think many players would either have to build or buy. i imagine she had her pick of acquirers. edit: check out her interviews! crazy impressive https://www.listennotes.com/top-podcasts/jean-yang/ https://www.listennotes.com/top-podcasts/jean-yang/
- afandian 3y agoo18y = "observability" to save you a click.
- Modified3019 3y agoThanks, I had no idea that was even a supposed abbreviation.
- Vgoose 3y agoI've actually seen more of her name than Akita itself. In a way, that's great marketing.
- equilibrium 3y agohate to be a prick but is there a difference between o11y and observability? or is the word observability just too long to type out
- FunnyLookinHat 3y agoYup - same idea as a11y - just easier to type. :-)
- gillh 3y agoCompanies that pioneered the stateful reconstruction of APIs from raw network events - - Netsil [0] (acquired by Nutanix) - Academic spin-out from UPenn - Pixie Labs [1] (acquired by New Relic) [0]: https://thenewstack.io/netsil-visualizes-performance-microservices/ https://thenewstack.io/netsil-visualizes-performance-microse... [1]: https://techcrunch.com/2020/12/10/new-relic-acquires-kubernetes-observability-platform-pixie-labs/ https://techcrunch.com/2020/12/10/new-relic-acquires-kuberne...
- swyx 3y agowhy do you think these companies, though successful in their own right, never became bigger standalone observability platforms?
- gillh 3y agoWhile the tech these companies built (stateful reconstruction) is quite hard to engineer, large-scale observability platforms like Datadog were much more successful as they could cover a much larger surface area with minimal incremental effort. Even APM companies like New Relic and AppD struggled to justify the value they were delivering with their well-engineered code-level agents in the face of large-scale server/process metrics collection done by the Datadog agent. In addition, these techniques have been prone to event misses (partial reconstruction) in case the ring buffer overflows and are ineffective in the face of SSL traffic.
- swyx 3y agoconcise summary. thank you! i guess simple is best.
- jchonphoenix 3y agoAkita has been around awhile. I remember talking to them around the time docker was still winning the container wars
- nickstinemates 3y agoThat could be anytime between 2013 and now :)
- sdesol 3y agoLooks like a significant amount of work is being done in private since there is almost no activity for the public org repos, so it's hard to say how long they've been working at it. https://devboard.gitsense.com/akitasoftware https://devboard.gitsense.com/akitasoftware The org has had 304 contributors over the course of the org's history though. Full Disclosure: This is my tool
- jeanyang 3y agoThank you! I've been at it since 2018 and we've been working on the repo since 2020, after pivoting from API security. -Jean from Akita
- dgacmu 3y agoCongrats, Jean! Hope it's a good integration. -- Dave