flow VS Zulip

We use a macaddr8 that embeds a wall-clock timestamp (so they're ascending order, achieving data locality) with some additional randomness. It's worked really well for us:

https://github.com/estuary/flow/blob/master/supabase/migrati...

we use macaddr8 instead of bigint, because it has a postgres serialization / JSON encoding which lossless-ly round-trips with browsers and it works well with PostgREST. The same CANNOT be said for bigint, which is a huge footgun.

I can't claim to know much about CloudQuery, but we are an open-source platform with CDC connectors from PostgreSQL and materializations to BQ and elsewhere. We also have fully-managed connectors if you don't want to deal with hosting.

This is essentially how we model things in Flow (disclosure: I work there). We call them Derivations, which are data products that are built (derived) from other data products. Each data product (we call them Collections) is backed by a set of append-only logs, so they can be read by many different consumers at different times. IDK if our product can work for you since we don't (yet) support stuff like MQTT, but there's a pretty generous free tier if you'd be able to push the data over HTTP. Either way, I just think it's cool that others have independently arrived at similar ideas about how to model streaming tasks!

We Estuary Git Docs have an open-source connector for Kafka -> Snowflake that could perform the tasks of a) flattening the data and b) removing duplicates via exactly once end to end delivery

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Regional offices in NYC & Columbus, OH

Estuary (https://www.estuary.dev/) is the first real-time Data Operations platform for future-proof pipelines, including both historical and real-time data set up in minutes.

Our team is rapidly growing, VC funded and led by two successful, repeat founders.

We primarily develop in Rust and Go and are heavily built on top of gazette which is an internally developed streaming engine.

Flow: https://github.com/estuary/flow

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^This is an exciting opportunity to make direct impact and shape user perception of a new product that brings a fresh experience to working with real-time data.

As this is a unique role, we are open to a variety of personas (data engineers, backend developers, Solutions Engineers and of course DevRel professionals).

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Flow Gazette We are looking for a backend engineer who is early in their career (around 1-3 years of industry experience) to join our team.

Estuary Technology | Junior Backend Engineer | Rust, Go | REMOTE OR HYBRID | Regional offices in NYC & Columbus, OH

Estuary (https://www.estuary.dev/) is the first real-time Data Operations platform for future-poof pipelines, including both historical and real-time data set up in minutes.

Our team is rapidly growing, VC funded and led by two successful, repeat founders.

We primarily develop in rust and go and are heavily built on top of gazette which is an internally developed streaming engine.

Flow: https://github.com/estuary/flow

Gazette: https://gazette.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

We are looking for a junior backend engineer with 2-3 years of industry experience.

For engineers who have an unquenched curiosity and drive to solve complex distributed systems problems, this is an opportunity to advance your career alongside a team of subject matter experts.

We are focused on expanding our catalog of open-source data connectors and building out our managed service platform.

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It does seem like a weird bug that this would cause errors https://github.com/estuary/flow/runs/5642694619?check_suite_... seems like it should be some kind of warning instead of an error?

where you'd subscribe for live updates.

[1]: https://github.com/estuary/flow

Zulip — Real-time chat with a unique email-like threading model. The free plan includes 10,000 messages of search history and File storage up to 5 GB. also, it provides a self-hostable open-source version.

(1) Zulip Chat - https://zulip.com/ - seems to be reasonably popular, but more people should know about it

I’ve been using it for over 5 years now [1], and it’s as good as ever. It’s way faster than any other chat app I’ve used. It has a good UI and conversation model. It has a simple and functional API that lets me curl threads and write blog posts based on them.

(only problem is that I Ctrl-+ in my browser to make the font bigger – I think it’s too dense for most people)

(2) re2c regex to state machine compiler - https://re2c.org

A gem from the 90’s, which people have done a great job maintaining and improving (getting Go and Rust target support in the last few years). I started using it in 2016, and used for a new program a few months ago. I came to the conclusion that it should have been built into C, because C has shitty string processing – and Ken Thompson both invented C AND brought regular languages to computing !!

In comparison, treesitter lexers are very low level, fiddly, and error prone. I recently saw dozens of ad hoc fixes to the tree-sitter-bash lexer, which is unsurprising if you look at the structure of the code (manually crawling through backslashes and braces in C).

https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-bash/blob/master/...

These fixes are definitely appreciated, but I think it indicates a problem with the model itself.

(based on https://lobste.rs/s/endspx/software_you_are_thankful_for#c_y...)

[1] https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2018/04/26.html

A few more truly in the vibe of open source projects not advertising their hosting providers: https://plane.so/ , https://element.io/ , https://www.loomio.com/ , https://zulip.com/ , and it keeps going... Very few open source projects, in the FOSS sense, are advertising their hosting provider.

I was so excited to see this happen!

I'm not a customer of yours, but your blog posts inspired me a lot. Your journey through quitting caffeine is a great and heartening read.

I've got two things to say;

1) Will you consider source-availabling the web portal (app.keygen.sh) too? Some enterprises could use it for easy management/support for custoner's licenses. Although now that I think about it, it could also discourage custom, more suitable implementations for each use-case... I'm torn on this one. I would like to see it available on GitHub too just out of curiosity too. It's very beautiful.

2) For a team + customers' chat, I cannot recommend Zulip enough. It's a joy to use and has the most innovative chat system I've ever seen. https://zulip.com

I hope your business keeps prospering!

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We're building the next generation of Zulip's mobile apps in Flutter. We're looking for a senior engineer with Flutter experience to join our small core team and help define the future of team chat. Our Flutter prototype is just a few months old, so this is a greenfield opportunity to help shape the app's architecture from early on.

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Anyways, I'm an internet stranger, not a social media expert. So let me know what you all think. And if we make a discord or zulip or something to make this a reality, let me know and I'd love to help any way I can.