Build a log explorer in minutes and scale it to billions (for real)
Built a log explorer because it's a common, hard and painful problem for devs, but wanted to showcase the process and some tips for scaling that can be applied to similar use cases. Hope you can learn something new · How it started => https://www.tinybird.co/blog-posts/build-a-datadog-alternati... · How I scaled it => https://www.tinybird.co/blog-posts/build-a-datadog-alternati... · My Cursor + sonnet process => https://x.com/alrocar/status/1892653985330258283 · GitHub repo =>…
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Built a log explorer because it's a common, hard and painful problem for devs, but wanted to showcase the process and some tips for scaling that can be applied to similar use cases. Hope you can learn something new · How it started => https://www.tinybird.co/blog-posts/build-a-datadog-alternati... · How I scaled it => https://www.tinybird.co/blog-posts/build-a-datadog-alternati... · My Cursor + sonnet process => https://x.com/alrocar/status/1892653985330258283 · GitHub repo => https://github.com/tinybirdco/logs-explorer-template For the demo app I loaded 1.5b rows, there's a mock data generator in the repo. [we open sourced it and are featuring it in product hunt today in case you want to take a look]
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