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by iudqnolq 2155 days ago
When you say

> Gravwell is developed and maintained by engineers expert in security and obsessed with high performance. Therefore our codebase is 100% proprietary and does not rely on open source software. We love open source, but we love our customers and their peace of mind a lot more!

does that mean you've even rolled your own webserver? Programming language?

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That's... not good copy. I think it must have been written long ago. We use open-source libraries (with compatible licenses, of course) and even maintain our own set of open-source code (https://github.com/gravwell). I'll talk to the guys who maintain the website and get that fixed. Thanks for pointing it out!

Edit: We've had lots of people assume we use Elastic under the hood, so I wonder if that was just a (poorly-worded) attempt to indicate that our core storage and querying code is custom rather than some existing open-source solution.

Maybe you should just wipe that paragraph completely. I get that investors like to see that you are using proprietary code, but I wouldn't expect you to be faster with that. Especially when running against Elastic, which has over 1.400 contributors currently. But you don't necessarily need to. You can get me with being focused on the right thing and not bloating your software. Lot of big projects start to loose focus and start doing everything, hence become worse doing their main job.

Especially when it comes to security, I'd like to see the lowest complexity possible. Harden your software instead of feature-fu around. That would be a good USP (I've got the feeling that no vendor has realized this so far - but customers neither did).