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But at some point we realized that it eats up almost 200 GB of disk space with the default compression codec just to store logs data of the past 14-15 days for a bit over a dozen of websites. As we are gradually refining our legacy infrastructure in pursuit to make it more maintainable and resilient, there’s a planned project for deployment of critical services in multiple distributed geographical locations. Yet, this is unacceptable for a small team that needs stability in terms of frequency of change in the foundation of infrastructure, and cannot throw their resources at learning all the new data backends coming to swap out those in operation.

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