Clint Sharp
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Clint Sharp
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- Can we admit, finally, that product led growth sounds great but it’s not the path to a large software company without shifting (usually quietly) to enterprise sales?
- New blog post for founders: Sell The Product Before It Exists: clintsharp.com/post/sell-the-…. It's counter intuitive, but founders tend to build more than they should before they take it to market. Your product and your GTM are inextricably linked. Start selling before you build it.
- Inspired by @mipsytipsy let me tell you a story about logs. I used to run systems which billed and processed a billion dollars a year. We tended to have an unfortunate problem with these systems whereby which we would take people's money and give them nothing for it.Let's talk... about raw events, logs, aggregates and data structures. The meat and potatoes of computering. What *is* an event? For the purposes of this thread, let's define an event as one hop in the lifecycle of a request. (Oodles of details here: honeycomb.io/blog/2018/06/h…)
- Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning will not solve your monitoring and observability challenges. Sorry, to be the bearer of bad news, but we're going to need humans to build and administer monitoring and observability tools for the remainder of my lifetime.
- The trial that Splunk brought against @cribl_io is over and the Court has largely sided with Cribl. Splunk's claims for patent infringement, violation of DMCA, and tortious interference were all dismissed. The Court has (once again) affirmed fair use for interoperability. And the
- I've built a handy guide for CEOs deciding to raise money in mid-March 2022
- Replying to @mipsytipsyI’m always fascinated by companies being unwilling to spend a few thousand dollars on software but allow anyone to call a weekly status meeting for 20 or 30 people.
- Man, these same people who were experts in pandemics also happen to be experts in banking. Makes me feel so small, since all I know is about enterprise software.
- This is true, and I’ve said it for years. Metrics are lossily compressed logs. Traces are logs with parent child relationships between entries. The only reason we have three terms is because getting value from them has required different compromises to make them cost effective.Replying to @mipsytipsybut: there are not "three pillars" of observabiity. there is only one data structure that underpins observability: the arbitrarily-wide structured data blob. consider: * metrics are trivially derived from it * logs are a sloppy version of it * traces are a visualization of it
- Today, we're positioning Cribl around the term Observability Pipeline. As best as possible with this post, I've tried to lay out the capabilities of an observability pipeline in a generic and neutral way. This is roadmap for how to build one for yourself.
- Replying to @clintsharpCribl delivers choice and control to our customers. We will vigorously defend ourselves against these baseless accusations in court, here and other public places.
- I want to help smart kids from crappy towns. Does anyone else want to help?
- Replying to @clintsharpWe started Cribl in June 2018, 15 months after we’d left Splunk, after discovering customers were struggling to tame the growth in data. Data is growing at 25% CAGR, meaning you’ll have 250% more data in 5 yrs than you have today. What worked for the last decade won’t work today.
