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Where’s the profit in funding a library, though? The others examples you gave are SaaSable, I don’t see that for a library. Paid support, sure, maybe, but does
by vosper 3y ago
Where’s the profit in funding a library, though? The others examples you gave are SaaSable, I don’t see that for a library. Paid support, sure, maybe, but does that get the kind of return a VC needs?
- lmeyerov 3y agoThey're not selling the library but a managed cloud runtime for a scaleout compute tier. The clientside library is part of the freemium, and as workloads need to go bigger, they want to be the easy button for that. That's similar to anyscale (ray), coiled & saturncloud (dask), and early databricks (spark). Managing infra for that kind of thing is annoying. These companies don't OSS their cloud stack. Wishing them luck! A lot of arrow-core compute tier & db co's emerging, so cool to see the many years paying off.
- vosper 3y ago> They're not selling the library but a managed cloud runtime for a scaleout compute tier. The clientside library is part of the freemium, and as workloads need to go bigger, they want to be the easy button for that. That's what I had missed - thanks.