For another very similar example see FoundationDB, which was acquired and shuttered by Apple: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9259986 https://news.ycombina

For another very similar example see FoundationDB, which was acquired and shuttered by Apple: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9259986 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9259986 More happily FoundationDB was later released as open source and is successfully used by many companies beyond Apple. Snowflake is a prominent example. [0] [0] https://www.snowflake.com/blog/how-foundationdb-powers-snowflake-metadata-forward https://www.snowflake.com/blog/how-foundationdb-powers-snowf...