Co-founder of Quickwit here. Seeing our acquisition by Datadog on the HN front page feels like a truly full-circle moment.

HN has been interwoven with Quickwit's journey from the very beginning. Looking back, it's striking to see how our progress is literally chronicled in our HN front-page posts:

- Searching the web for under $1000/month [0]

- A Rust optimization story [1]

- Decentralized cluster membership in Rust [2]

- Filtering a vector with SIMD instructions (AVX-2 and AVX-512) [3]

- Efficient indexing with Quickwit Rust actor framework [4]

- A compressed indexable bitset [5]

- Show HN: Quickwit – OSS Alternative to Elasticsearch, Splunk, Datadog [6]

- Quickwit 0.8: Indexing and Search at Petabyte Scale [7]

- Tantivy – full-text search engine library inspired by Apache Lucene [8]

- Binance built a 100PB log service with Quickwit [9]

- Datadog acquires Quickwit [10]

Each of these front-page appearances was a milestone for us. We put our hearts into writing those engineering articles, hoping to contribute something valuable to our community.

I'm convinced HN played a key role in Quickwit's success by providing visibility, positive feedback, critical comments, and leads that contacted us directly after a front-page post. This community's authenticity and passion for technology are unparalleled. And we're incredibly grateful for this.

Thank you all :)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27074481

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28955461

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31190586

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32674040

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35785421

[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36519467

[6] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38902042

[7] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39756367

[8] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40492834

[9] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40935701

[10] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42648043