Show HN: All I wanted was to grok some real-time data

[ambrood]

Hi HN,

We are launching Denormalized (www.denormalized.io), a serverless real-time data platform built on Kafka and Pinot.

We felt a bit burnt out by the sheer developer toil we faced when building application around the real-time data stack and set out to create a platform to allow small teams to be very productive with realtime data without having to glue together an elaborate system to serve real-time as well as time series queries.

Here is our motivating post. Would appreciate any and all feedback.

[zjkr]

Exciting. In my past experience at Uber we were looking at leveraging Kafka and Pinot for replacing some large on the fly index queries and calculations we were doing.

They were becoming operationally expensive and for hot spots in the database were extremely problematic.

Keeping running counts and aggregations and general logic and math on top of streams have always been difficult

[rahulr0609]

Loving the experimentation -- Heroku for real-time data with analytical queries could be awesome