Is there a name for the practice of embedding a completely unrelated video into the middle of an article? I find this practice to be so mystifying. Does that work on readers?
Fairly accurate, you can only get support if you're using their cloud product.
"We no longer support paid, open-source deployments and it is no longer possible to buy licenses for self-hosted versions - we instead recommend migrating to PostHog Cloud." - from: https://posthog.com/docs/self-host
OP's ask was: "Is this another one ... where open source is used more as a marketing gimmick"
My original comment wasn't intended to indicate that there is an obligation to provide support. The deliberate choice to: a) not offer paid support for open-source deployments, and b) sunsetting the Kubernetes deployments in favor of their cloud version, is a signal that shows PostHog doesn't /really/ want you to be running the software in a self-hosted manner.
Just look at the "Open-source hobby deploy" (from the README in git) which calls out that it "should scale to approximately 100k events per month" but their cloud offering gives you 1 million events per month for free. What is the point of the hobby "deploy"?
Back to OP -- my answer is yes, this is a source-available service that you can modify and play around with locally. The source and documentation behind the operations of PostHog aren't available.
The math didn't add up for us (I work at PostHog). At the rate we were scaling, we would have needed an entire call center's worth of highly trained Kubernetes support engineers to debug everyone's "my pods just died" / "Kafka just stopped" / "what is Zookeeper" problems.
This stack isn't straightforward to manage, and we couldn't crack the code of doing it at scale for other people without even having access to their systems. There was no malicious intent.
I disagree with the notion that oss is used as marketing bait.
a) offering paid support for bespoke selfhosted installations is an entirely different business model than building a managed service on your oss offering
b) maintaining k8s/helm charts is work - who is paying for that? The selfhosting users certainly aren’t and usually contributions are not enough and even then still need reviews.
You think it’s a deliberate choice.
Yes it’s the choice between going out of business and continuing.
What a wild story...it's crazy to think that we have 1080p emulator video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EufWGcflwjQ) without having the underlying rom ever ending up on the internet.
Yep. It really depends what you do with your monitors. For gaming I'll never go back to anything less than 240hz. Even high end video cards struggle to render modern games at 240hz consistently at 4k. 1080p is fine.
If you're at a point of spending $1.6M to transition objects from one class to another and spending millions per month in storage costs -- you need to have a real conversation about if storing your data in a vendor-locked cloud is the right path forward. S3 isn't the only option, MinIO + dense storage is one viable option if your spend is high enough to justify running MinIO. Backblaze is another.
List price of Backblaze:
$0.005/GB - Base Storage
$0.01/GB - Egress (Use a data partner to bring this down to $0)
Thanks for the feedback -- agreed on the reserved capacity being an anti-pattern.
For the third point, what I've suggested in the past to push your artifacts into the region (since that's free) and then pull it down from S3. This lets you only incur S3 costs which tend to be cheaper then NAT data transfer costs (assuming you're using a VPC endpoint or equivalent).
I recently published this article and it's been weird to see how divided the community it is on this.
It feels that half of my inbox is people yelling "we've been running this in production", the other half yelling "this is this worst thing to do in the cloud next to leaving S3 buckets open".
I'd love to know your sentiment if you have one as I didn't expect to hit such a nerve.
Is the focus on density around performance, visualization, or something else?