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by lafay 10y ago
Arbor Networks (now part of Netscout) is the incumbent in this area. Kentik is the disruptive SaaS-based startup.
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by lafay 10y ago
Kentik | San Francisco | Full Time | REMOTE, VISA considered https://www.kentik.com/careers/ Interested in building a distributed column-store time series database? Crafting a sleek, intuitive front-end? Evangelizing
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Why the High Cost of Big-City Living Is Bad for Everyone(newyorker.com)
94 points by lafay 10y ago|129 comments
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by lafay 10y ago
This is the best description of HN I've ever read: > There are great ideas and topics to be covered here for sure, but they're sprinkled on top of a giant cake made with 1-part self-loathing, 2-parts day-dreaming, and 1-part re
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by lafay 10y ago
Isn't most of "built great products" the combination of right timing, right connections, right team, product/market fit? What really is the difference between #1 and #2?
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YC reject Kentik closes $23M Series B(kentik.com)
1 points by lafay 10y ago|0 comments
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by lafay 10y ago
This was news to me that there was any battle to be had here. I grew up in a part of suburban Chicago where all the residential streets were lined with elms -- it looked very much like the photo of Central Park in the article. I can rememb
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by lafay 10y ago
Kentik (www.kentik.com) is a great choice for monitoring network traffic details. Terabit-scale aggregates down to individual conversations. (Disclaimer: I work at Kentik)
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by lafay 10y ago
In my mind, "startup" implies that there is still risk that the company will cease to be a going concern in the near to medium term. The transition from "startup" to "former startup" is more of a process than
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by lafay 10y ago
I'm sure free access to 1998 Stanford servers and bandwidth was nothing like getting AWS for free. And a lot of startups these days do actually get AWS for free -- or at least the first $100K.
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by lafay 10y ago
This article is by Anna Wiener, the same author who wrote the recent "Uncanny Valley" piece: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11565691 Really enjoy her writing.
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by lafay 10y ago
Kentik | San Francisco | Full Time | REMOTE, VISA considered Our top hiring priorities: Engineering Leader, Backend https://www.kentik.com/careers/?gh_jid=163451 Senior Fullstack Javascript Engineer https:/&#
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by lafay 10y ago
~10 years ago I was at Disneyland and saw this family all decked out in really elaborate face paint. At the time I thought "How cool!" Then several months later I realized it was Heidi Klum and Seal after I saw them on the cover
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by lafay 10y ago
Kentik ( http://www.kentik.com ) is doing something very similar, as a cloud-based service or on-prem cluster. Accepts standard flow formats (netflow, sflow, IPFIX) from routers and switches, and also "augmented" flow f
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by lafay 10y ago
I had the same reaction. I grew up in suburban Chicago and it seemed nothing like this. We walked to elementary school, to friends' houses, to the center of town for ice cream. When I was a little older we rode bikes all over creati
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by lafay 10y ago
Kentik | San Francisco | Full Time | REMOTE, VISA considered https://www.kentik.com/careers/ Interested in building a time series database, crafting a sleek, intuitive front-end, or evangelizing a breakthrough approach
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What Makes Some Silicon Valley Companies So Successful(hbr.org)
1 points by lafay 10y ago|0 comments
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by lafay 11y ago
I was also surprised by the $/sqft figures for Orinda and Lafayette. I think there just aren't that many "for sale" samples within 1 mile of those stops. A lot of it is commercial, apartments, or open space. Also, it s
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by lafay 11y ago
Yes, quite sure. However, the credits can only offset the "debits" from the times when you are a net importer from the grid (night, cloudy, etc). PG&E sends a once annual true-up statement where you pay for your excess annua
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by lafay 11y ago
No storage. This is a grid-tied system that exports power onto the grid during times when I am a net producer, for which I get credited at retail rates.
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by lafay 11y ago
I had a 6.7 kW solar system installed here in the Bay Area late last year, and you can beat the costs stated in this article by quite a lot if you shop around. The best bids I got were around $3.30/watt installed -- that's $2.31&
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by lafay 11y ago
Parallel aggregate over cores in a node is fast, but parallel aggregate over many cores across many nodes is even faster: https://www.kentik.com/metrics-for-microservices/ https://www.kentik.com/postgre
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by lafay 11y ago
Is ETL really even necessary anymore? Why not just run fast ad hoc queries over the raw data with something like Google BigQuery?
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Your Product Roadmap Is Your Product(linkedin.com)
1 points by lafay 11y ago|0 comments
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by lafay 11y ago
We faced a very similar problem when we started Kentik two years ago, except in our case the "transactions" are network traffic telemetry that we collect from our customers' physical network infrastructure, and providing supe
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by lafay 11y ago
I don't think there is any explicit shaping / throttling happening on US wireline networks these days. There was a huge blowback against Comcast for trying that ~10 years ago, using Sandvine gear to throttle bittorrent traffic at
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by lafay 11y ago
The technology to cost-effectively store massive amounts of raw metrics / data and quickly derive insight from it is still a relatively recent development, and so far we've seen turn-key tools to leverage that in just a few areas:
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by lafay 11y ago
Kentik | San Francisco | Full Time | REMOTE, VISA considered https://www.kentik.com/careers/ Our top hiring priorities: Engineering Leader, Backend http://bit.ly/1NMhNzK Senior UI / UX Engineer h
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by lafay 11y ago
"Network monitoring system" makes me think of routers, switches, Mbps / Gbps, etc. This seems more like a "server monitoring system."
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by lafay 11y ago
What about ANET, PANW, SPLK, WDAY? Enterprise startups so often overlooked.

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