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Datadog acquires Quickwit


The unexpected journey of building a multi-petabyte scale search engine

Our choice of Rust proved transformative—our first demo on the Common Crawl dataset hit the front page of HN with virtually no bugs (except for that one pesky Python error: "'NoneType' object has no attribute"). Mezmo recently put in production Quickwit to serve thousands of customers and petabytes of logs, drastically reducing infrastructure cost and complexity while delivering the same user experience. Conversations with Olivier, Alexis, Michael, David, Yanbing, Laurent, Jeromy and others unveiled a refreshingly authentic culture—one characterized by intelligence, humility, and genuine integrity.

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