Ray Jenkins
Ray Jenkins
@ramond.bsky.social
Distributed systems, databases, networking and infrastructure. Skateboarding, making music, reading and art. Building https://rotel.dev previously: Snowflake, Segment, Librato.
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If you dig observability, ClickHouse, distributed tracing, and performance engineering peep this post from me, @mike.heffner.io, and the ClickHouse Eng team.
Can you 4x OTel thoughput with Rust? Meet Rotel: pushing 460K spans/sec/core (vs 130k) How? By diving deep into Rust's threading model, resolving allocator lock contention, and reengineering JSON serialization with RowBinary encoding to stream data efficiently into ClickHouse.
Had a great time sharing rotel.dev at #OpenO11ySummit + #OTelDay with @mike.heffner.io. Blown away by how many people had already heard of it and tried it. “Yeah we tried it and it was 8x faster than our existing solution”. We thought today was our first official announcement 🤣.
I’m there at least twice a week reviving, you’re welcome San Francisco. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/b...