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SpaceX launches rockets with Excel. Here's why we're trying to replace it(docs.synnaxlabs.com)
5 points by embonilla 7mo ago|1 comments
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by embonilla 7mo ago
I'm Emiliano, an aerospace engineer and co-founder of Synnax. Our team spent years in industry writing Excel based control sequences and the runtime environments that execute them. After founding Synnax, we spent two years trying to av
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11x Faster Ingest of 1B Rows Using a Controversial DB Architecture(docs.synnaxlabs.com)
9 points by embonilla 2y ago|1 comments
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by embonilla 2y ago
Hey HN! We're engineers working on a time-series database engine specifically designed for high speed sensor data. We come from backgrounds in aerospace engineering, and were surprised by the lack of database engines built specifically
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by embonilla 2y ago
It might also have something to do with our analytics tool (via Vercel). I'll look into this.
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by embonilla 2y ago
Yes! I'm a fan of Asimov and the foundation series. Synnax is the home planet of Gaal Dornik, who studies Psychohistory, which is (loosely) related to time. I mostly thought the name sounded cool, and then came up with this explanation
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by embonilla 2y ago
> I don’t think saying you’re 5x InfluxDB on writes is going to persuade too many people. I definitely agree with this. Our early prototype of Synnax actually sat on top of a combined Redis/S3/SQL stack and focused on those hig
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by embonilla 2y ago
Hey, we're aware and a little embarrassed! We use some nested CSS selectors that aren't compatible with some browsers and haven't gotten around to fixing it yet, sorry!
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by embonilla 2y ago
The core time series engine, called cesium ( https://github.com/synnaxlabs/synnax/tree/main/cesium ), is written completely from scratch. It's kind of designed as a "time-series S3", where w
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by embonilla 2y ago
It's been a really interesting problem to tackle - we've seen so many different ways that companies try to tackle this problem, and while theres one or two companies that have made really fantastic internal tools, most are ... lac
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Launch HN: Synnax (YC S24) – Unified hardware control and sensor data streaming
38 points by embonilla 2y ago|31 comments