Trench
Data
event analytics backend
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How HN took it
3 positive, 11 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 7 critical, out of 21 comments about the project. Thread score -0.18.
Idea: 1 for, 3 againstExecution: 1 for, 1 againstPricing: 0 for, 2 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Good choice of core technologies
From 1 comment
1) Appreciate the single image to get started, but am particularly curious how you handle different events of a new user going to different nodes. 2) any admin interface or just…
bosky101 on HN
Single Docker image simplifies getting started
From 1 comment
1) Appreciate the single image to get started, but am particularly curious how you handle different events of a new user going to different nodes. 2) any admin interface or just…
bosky101 on HN
Objections
Unclear use cases and value beyond the underlying technologies
From 3 comments
Looks great, but what is missing for me are use cases. Why should I use it? What are the unique selling points of your project?
Attummm on HNYou are selling the underlying technologies(Kafka/Clickhouse). I'm interested in your project can do for me, my project(s), team/company. There is a reason that most of the…
Attummm on HNMaybe I wasn't clear enough but my questions have been rhetorical. They were not for me. If one starts stating technologies, it is akin to describing the individual ingredients…
Attummm on HN
Kafka adds unnecessary complexity for many users
From 2 comments
What is the advantage of this rather than using a postgres plugin for clickhouse and S3 storage of the data to build a kind of data-warehouse, which wouldn't require the bloat of…
oulipo on HNHow do you guarantee ACID with Kafka being responsible for actually INSERT'ing into ClickHouse? Wouldn't it be less error prone to just use ClickHouse directly and their async…
klaussilveira on HN
Requests
Admin interface beyond the REST API
From 1 comment
1) Appreciate the single image to get started, but am particularly curious how you handle different events of a new user going to different nodes. 2) any admin interface or just…
bosky101 on HN
Automatic archiving of old data to cloud storage
From 1 comment
How does it scale? Can you spin up multiple containers? For upcoming features auto archiving to cloud storage old data would be great.
antman on HN
Questions
How events are partitioned across Kafka and nodes
From 1 comment
1) Appreciate the single image to get started, but am particularly curious how you handle different events of a new user going to different nodes. 2) any admin interface or just…
bosky101 on HN
How to visualize data, since Grafana is not bundled
From 1 comment
Looks good. In market for something like this and I just ran it locally. how do I visualize data ? Is Grafana not included by default. Also, minor issue in your docs. There is an…
codegeek on HN
Alternatives named
PostHog
From 1 comment
how is this different from Posthog?
asdev on HN
Jitsu
From 1 comment
Looks super interesting. Any positioning thoughts on this vs https://jitsu.com ?
d_watt on HN
Kinesis Firehose with S3 and Athena
From 1 comment
Looks interesting, we solved this problem with Kinesis Firehose, S3 and Athena. Pricing is cheap, you can run any arbitrary SQL query and there is zero infrastructure to maintain.
hitradostava on HN