The monthly Hacker News Who is Hiring? thread is up.
I will do a full pass tomorrow. At a quick glance, nothing is jumping out at me.
Well, no. One company jumped out: Grafana. 💡 Why would I want to work at Grafana when I could build it all myself?
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What does Grafana do?
- Logs ⚙️ both request logs and server logs
- Metrics
- Traces 💡 a trace is different than a log. a trace has additional application-state information
- Visualization (the core product)
Will the machine re-invent application monitoring?
- LLMs are not good at the sheer volume of data generated.
- LLMs are not good at the task of understanding the system well enough to create dashboards/alerts.
- LLMs are not good at the optimization needed for high-performance logging.
- LLMs can write a bunch of code to let humans do some of those tasks.
💡 this will have to be a get back to me when someone wants to pay for it project idea.