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Migration to victoria metrics has been on my list for nearly a year, but the licensing of it always scared me a bit. My main issue is CPU and memory usage of pr

• smw 2y ago
  Apache 2 is scary? Maybe I'm missing something.
  • kuon 2y ago
    I think when I looked it was still half closed source or something, or maybe I was mislead by something I read. To be honest I didn't take the time to properly investigate it.
• Fizzadar 2y ago
  VM was a game changer for us, 7x reduction in memory and 3x CPU, plus the scaling flexibility.
  • oulipo 2y ago
    Hmmm but the documentation seems poorly written, what is the team behind?
    • hagen1778 2y ago
      What makes you think that about docs? Of course, it was written by developers, not tech writers. But anyway, what do you think can be improved?
    • trallnag 2y ago
      Specifically the documention or VictoriaMetrics overall? The latter started with a small number of Ukrainians
• nine_k 2y ago
  It's a reminder to us all that when we think: "Hey, why sweating over this memory layout or that extra CPU expenditure, it's small and nobody will notice", there will be times when everybody will notice. Maybe notice as much as to switch to our competitors' products.
  • hinkley 2y ago
    Developers tend to ignore C in order of complexity calculations but customers don’t. Game developers and HFTs seem to understand this, and very few regular devs I’ve interacted with do. I’ve seen customers say they switched to someone else for speed reasons. And I’ve worked on projects where the engineers were claiming this as fast as we can make it, and they were off by at least a factor of three. We like to think that being off by 10 or 30% doesn’t matter that much but lots of companies run on thin margins and publicly traded companies’ stock prices reflect EBITDA, it matters. Particularly in the Cloud era, where it’s much easier to see how sloppy programming leads more directly to hardware cost excess (as opposed to already purchased servers running closer to capacity)
    • therealdrag0 2y ago
      Those margins also mean you have to pick your battles. Most software is not as performance sensitive as video games or HFT. I take an efficient market hypothesis on this. Obviously devs can make stuff faster, and they do where it matters, as can be seen in games and HFT. In other software it’s a discussion with product of trade offs.
      • hinkley 2y ago
        In most of the scenarios I’ve mentioned, everyone but the devs disagreed about it being good enough. Too many people think the flame graph is the pinnacle of performance analysis and it’s just table stakes.
• alphabettsy 2y ago
  Victoria Metrics is well worth the migration. Much better performance and lower resource utilization in my experience.