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by BenoitP 1539 days ago
Big fan here!

I've been following the space since a bit of time, and I must say it's exciting. To me this is the future of apps where the Truth lives server-side, and everything reacts from there; With partial state evaluation lowering resource consumption to a minimum.

Kafka Streams and Apache Flink seem to be focused on real-time analytics, and I wish they'd get there to stimulate the space.

Are you affiliated with ReadySet?

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I'm pretty excited about it too! I remember when I initially started the research I was amazed that this didn't already exist.

Some context: https://twitter.com/jonhoo/status/1511401461669720068

Basically, I co-founded the company around the time I graduated, but had had my fill of database research after six years of PhD. So I joined AWS to work on Rust while Alana (the CEO) took on leading ReadySet.

According to the linked article, Jon appears to be one of the co-founders