I'm also a big fan and I'm really very happy for them and their success.
I was using elasticsearch 7 years ago in production already. And just for me, from the outside, it always looked like a crazy trip. I knew there was something going on when nearly half of my twitter timeline tweeted "am working for elasticsearch now". (they renamed to elastic later)
I was chatting in early 2017 with Shay and along the way he mentioned they were almost 500 then and now ~18 months later they are +800. Crazy!
> They made open source work.
Yes!
They have built and still build impressive (open source) projects and they managed to still earn money :) - this is the real big thing!
I was using elasticsearch 7 years ago in production already. And just for me, from the outside, it always looked like a crazy trip. I knew there was something going on when nearly half of my twitter timeline tweeted "am working for elasticsearch now". (they renamed to elastic later)
I was chatting in early 2017 with Shay and along the way he mentioned they were almost 500 then and now ~18 months later they are +800. Crazy!
> They made open source work.
Yes!
They have built and still build impressive (open source) projects and they managed to still earn money :) - this is the real big thing!