The most interesting part of this is the improvements to transaction handling that it seems they've made in https://github.com/alibaba/AliSQL/blob/master/wiki/duckdb/du... (its also a good high level breakdown of MySQL internals too). Ensuring that the sync between the primary tables and the analytical ones are fast and most importantly, transactional, is awesome to see.

It might not be clear just yet what the path to monetization looks like but an easy example would be deeper integrations with the rest of the Cloudflare ecosystem (for example allowing R2 to be easily along with something like duckdb to live in a world of truly local analytics or something like that).

It seems like these great open source frameworks need to monetize by building a platform around the product but these days it's hyper competitive (ex. Vercel, Cloudflare) and it's hard to get started without an incredible differentiator. So, while monetizing independently as a company might be difficult, Astro can provide a lot of value to the rest of the Cloudflare ecosystem.

I wish there was another path to monetization besides joining a larger company but I'm happy that the team will get to continue building out an amazing framework!

It seems like an expansion play from their team and their end vision as both a platform (clickhouse + postgres) and product (observability) seems to be pretty good combo that fits hand in hand.

> "remain skeptical of your own certainty" > "Model curiosity, and you get a team that actually learns."

These are two lessons that typically require battle scars to learn. For such big ideas to be summed into two sentences is pretty remarkable and puts to words lessons I wish I knew how to share. Amazing article, thanks for sharing!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46163272

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

The default react / nextjs configurations being vulnerable to RCE is pretty insane. I think platform level protections from Vercel / Cloudflare are very much showing their utility now!

if that's true then it's a sign that Azure's control / data plane separation is doing it's job! at least for now

it would be super cool to learn more about how the world's largest gossip systems work :)

on the other hand it's also led to improvements in many places hidden behind the scenes. for example, vision transformers are much more powerful and scalable than many of the other computer vision models which has probably led to new capabilities.

in general, transformers aren't just "generate text" but it's a new foundational model architecture which enables a leap step in many things which require modeling!

If that were the case a simple example is much of software services we see today (and provide real tangible value) wouldn't exist as it's theoretically just updating data in a database.

You'd be surprised how many times you can "iterate and fail quickly" only to end up at an established practice some other shop has been doing for years. It is important however to understand the why behind the decisions as otherwise you're no better than just figuring it out yourself

The part that's most exciting to me is actually the bidirectional calling. Having set this up before via JSON RPC / custom protocol the experience was super "messy" and I'm looking forward to a framework making it all better.

Can't wait to try it out!

The tricky part would be measuring time spent on hardening and making the business decision on how to quantify product features vs reliability (which I know is a false tradeoff because of time spent fixing bugs but still applies at a hand wavy level)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45294044

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

supply chain is and has been the new gold mine for bad actors it seems