Quickwit is joining Datadog to build a new product, releasing a new version under the Apache License 2.0. Their journey began in 2010 with three engineers dreaming of creating something revolutionary over gyoza. With the success of tantivy, a popular alternative to Lucene, they set out to create a more cost-efficient and scalable search engine. Through partnerships with Mezmo and Binance, Quickwit evolved into a multi-petabyte-scale engine. They contributed to various Rust libraries and saw increased revenue, leading to an acquisition by Datadog. Despite initial skepticism, the teams connected over shared values, leading to a promising future of collaboration.
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