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Yes, I'm in favor of installing and maintaing "elastic search". It's not rocket science. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elasticsearch#Users http://en.wikipedia.
by teacup50 11y ago
Yes, I'm in favor of installing and maintaing "elastic search".
It's not rocket science.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elasticsearch#Users http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elasticsearch#Users
- BadassFractal 11y agoOne thing they all have in common is that they're no longer 2 person shops. When you're at a single digit pre-PMF size, spending time on setting up your infrastructure and tooling is irresponsible. At some point the cost of the SaaS becomes greater than the cost of paying someone to maintain the tool, at which point you can do the switch.
- hobofan 11y agoAnd that point can come very early. We are handling a lot of data/user. We are hosting our ES for ~$80/mo which would cost $650/mo at Algolia for the same volume. Same for logging data. We are hosting our own EHK (Heka instead of Logstash) stack for ~$50/mo (few hours of setup and ~10mins/month of maintenance) which would cost us about $500/mo if we would have stayed with Loggly (and ours will stay at about the same price well into the volume of Loggly's $1k/mo plan). As a bootstraping startup you don't have the luxury to throw money at problems and a lot of SaaS are not well suited if you have a heavy data workload.
- briandear 11y agowith that sort of volume, you guys must be making millions!
- teacup50 11y ago> spending time on setting up your infrastructure and tooling is irresponsible Investing in our infrastructure and tooling early-on was probably the most responsible thing I did.