Detailed article from Stratechery here that's worth a read - https://stratechery.com/2021/cloudflares-disruption/

Before the doing the plant-based diet, I had such high cholesterol that I would have needed to start taking statins before age 35. After the 90 day diet experiment, my cholesterol dropped by 130 mg/dL. I no longer need to be put on medication, and am within a healthy range.

This is the difference between junior investment bankers and engineers. Both have to work hard at the beginning of their careers to justify being paid for their work for all future years. Investment bankers are paid to be available to make decks, crunch numbers, etc at all hours of the day. I’m curious how many of those hours are spent doing something of value vs just being available to the partner. In comparison, a software engineers time is not valued for simply being available, but rather in creating something useful. Both are motivated to work many hours, but one is intrinsic and the other is extrinsic.

Compare that to our HN post requiring no additional lift, which resulted in ~10k unique visitors, no bots, and great critical feedback we couldn’t get anywhere else.

I do want an authentic PH! But it feels like a vanity landing page in its current state.

PostgreSQL (Neon) is our free self-serve offering because it’s easy to spin up quickly.

We warehouse logs directly to your DB, so you can do whatever you want with the data. Build company ops on top of the DB, run your own evals, join with other tables, hash data, etc.

We’re focusing on backend eng workflows so it’s simple to run continuous monitoring, evals, and fine-tuning with any model. Our interface will focus on surfacing data and analytics to PMs and researchers.

For pgvector/pinecone RAG traces - you can start by including meta tags in the header. Those values will be queryable in the JSON object.

Curious to learn more though - feel free to email me at emma@usevelvet.com.