When I was at Retool (Hi Kyle), we wanted to create a way for users to write arbitrary code that got executed against their data in our cloud, e.g. using the MongoDB Node SDK to write Mongo queries in JS instead of only being able to use the pre-defined functions and form fields we had. Engineering researched it for a while, tried out Lambda and a few other things, but we never got there. This would have been sick

We think about the Retool case a lot. User-defined database connectors were an initial inspiration to start building Riza.

amazing name

Thank you! Appreciate it.

I just came here to say that this name rocks

Text work is real work!

I wonder how much of the ascension of these kinds of companies was a function of market timing too. Bigger budgets from ~2016-2022 meant a higher tolerance for dealing with OSS that required you to throw serious headcount at it, and once you were in that hole, buying the managed service made a lot of sense

[WarpStream employee]

Yes, that's part of it. That's why we have put so much effort into making sure WarpStream's implementation of the Kafka protocol is as close as possible to Apache Kafka. We don't want you to have to make application changes in order to migrate from Kafka to WarpStream.

Also the Kafka protocol is pretty great.

Pleeeeeeease fix the letter spacing on the blog, my eyes are burning

I came here to ask this

It should read "code" instead of "pre".

I'm pushing a fix right now.

This is the analysis I wanted to do, but for the entire group of categories would have been time prohibitive (it's easy for ShowHN because that is filterable). Interesting results here

Yea, I edited the title to reflect that it's more of a claim. My B

What's actually more accurate is to say that there's a site out there that claims that they will sell you upvotes on Hacker News. Whether that actually happens, where, and how is unsubstantiated (sorry dang). I edited the title to reflect that