The world and thoughts of Goutham Veeramachaneni
David Crawshaw co-founded Tailscale . And 6 years later, just as the company was taking off, he quit to build exe.dev . This level of conviction made exe.dev very interesting for me. But just going through the website, I didn’t really understand what the big deal was.
It’s been a hot week, my brain is melting, and AI is starting to suck some of the joy out of my job . It’s the perfect time for my brain to be in fantasy land. I was thinking about the kind of company I want to
It's a spicy title, but one that is warranted. Elastic recently published a blog post titled 30x faster than Prometheus , that claimed that Elastic's new TSDS timeseries engine is much better than Prometheus. When I started reading it, I was curious; maybe there are useful optimizations
After my last post , I wanted to see how far I could take things. I have a home lab running in my office, where I have a bunch of different machines, and I run a combination of k3s and Ansible-provisioned services to self-host various apps like immich , silverbullet
gcx , the CLI for accessing Grafana and Grafana Cloud resources was just announced at GrafanaCon. I had early access and was using it heavily. Claude can now query the logs, profiles, traces and alerts in Grafana Cloud. Unsurpisingly, Claude is excellent at leveraging it, and honestly, my visits to the
OpenClaw has gained a lot of attention and notoriety recently, and for a good reason. When I first encountered LLMs, they were useful, but I wasn't really all that excited. It was mostly a chat interface and felt like a tool that improved things marginally. And all that
I had many things planned for Christmas break, but I spent most of my time learning Rust. I've wanted to learn Rust for a long time but never really put serious effort into it. But now I have an idea that requires the use of Apache DataFusion so
A friend reached out last week seeking advice. She had an offer from Google DeepMind and another one from a 10-person startup, and she was having trouble deciding between the two. I knew she wanted to start her own company and recommended the early startup, but given she goes
Ever since I wrote the ClickHouse post , it has been living in my head rent-free. I was thinking a lot about running it as the backend for a SaaS service and realized its multi-tenancy model isn't great. And that led me into a rabbit hole where
I spent some time playing around with ClickHouse to understand how it scales and what it takes to operate it. I wanted to distill what I learned, so here's my brain dump. Disclaimer: Th ese are my notes from some unscientific tests, docs, and content put out by
tldr; claude mcp add playwright npx @playwright/mcp@latest I got a new request for my hardcover-embed service: to be able to embed reviews! Jeff Sexton had been embedding the Goodreads review widget on his website and wanted to replace it with data from Hardcover . (btw, Jeff is awesome
Those who know me know that I have been an AI skeptic and slow on its uptake. I built a little with GitHub Copilot on VSCode, and it was useful, but it felt like fancy auto-complete. I was also a product manager and didn't need to write
Distributed tracing is AWESOME! I saw it's power more than 6 years ago , and I've been regularly talking about it since. It's helped me troubleshoot many issues that would have been extremely difficult to with just metrics and logs. However, it's not
As my sabbatical was approaching, I was searching for ideas on what I could learn. I was toying with the idea of a writing class, when I came across a "book binding" class by Rebekah Smith . It looked interesting, and I was curious, so I signed up. That
I just finished reading The Great Good Place by Ray Oldenburg. It was originally written in 1989, but it is still very relevant, maybe even more so, 35 years later. It has left me with a lot of thoughts, and this post is trying to capture some of them. The