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bacalhau

Community-driven, simple, yet powerful framework for fast, cost-effective distributed Compute over Data.

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Community-driven, simple, yet powerful framework for fast, cost-effective distributed Compute over Data.

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Observed mentions: 2023-03-25 13:50:15 UTC to 2025-03-15 17:31:02 UTC.

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What Hacker News says

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Show HN: Sample NCSA Log Generator

When we were doing a bunch of customer examples for Bacalhau[1], we needed to create a fake NCSA compatible log generator[2]. We also containerized it to make it even easier[3]. E.g. docker run -v ./logs:/var/log/app ghcr.io/bacalhau-project/access-log-generator:latest Absolutely no business model behind this - just Apache2/MIT. If you like it, just use it! If you don't, happy to tweak it! [1] https://github.com/bacalhau-project/bacalhau [2] https://github.com/bacalhau-project/examples/tree/main/utili... [3] https://github.com/orgs/bacalhau-project/packages/container/...
1 points · Open discussion
It's an interesting question! The problem is that the data is spread everywhere - no choice about that. So with that in mind, how do you query that data? Today, the idea is that you HAVE to put it into a central location. With tools like Bacalhau[1] and DuckDB [2], you no longer have to - a single query can be sharded amongst all your data - EFFECTIVELY giving you a lot of what you want from a data lake. It's not a replacement, but if you can do a few of these items WITHOUT moving the data, you will be able to see really significant cost and time savings. Disclosure: I co-founded Bacalhau [1] https://github.com/bacalhau-project/bacalhau [2] https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb
In Building a Distributed Data Warehouse Without Data Lakes
FULLY BIASED COMMENT: We (the bacalhau.org[0] project) are interested in helping with this - one of our philosophies has been that part of the problem is with that first step. By first moving to a lake of some kind, you end up giving up lots of optionality. Even basic things like aggregation, filtering, windowing, etc now need to be in the "locked-in" tool, which is exactly the wrong first step to take. SHOW HN: We have a solution that uses DuckDB to do some of this initial work[1] which can save you 70%+ or more on total data throughput. Further, it allows you to do interesting things like eventing, multi-homing observability data, etc. I'd be very interested to hear any/all thoughts! [0] https://github.com/bacalhau-project/bacalhau [1] https://blog.bacalhau.org/p/bacalhau-x-duckdb-deploying-appl... Disclosure: I co-founded the Bacalhau
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In Vendor lock-in in the observability space
Hey everyone! I'm David Aronchick - co-founder of Bacalhau[1] - and we are specifically building an open source platform to help with this. Basically, we allow you to do compute over data, making it much easier to schedule jobs (container, WASM, arbitrary binary) to where the data is being stored, even over irregular/unreliable networks. We were able to show 90%+ savings in things like log aggregations. Happy to answer any questions if you'd like! David Aronchick aronchick@expanso.io [1] https://github.com/bacalhau-project/bacalhau
In Why cloud bandwidth is so obscenely expensive and what you can do about that
Hi everyone! We're super proud to announce the 1.0 release of the OSS Bacalhau platform[1] Just a few of the features we released include: - Multi-architecture support - Intel, Apple Silicon (M1/M2), ARMv6 & ARMv7, AMD64 - Running 10k+ jobs simultaneously - Simplified private cluster setup - DAG execution through Project Amplify - Insulated Jobs & Federated Learning And lots more! Please let us know if you have any questions :) Disclosure: I am co-founder of Bacalhau [1] https://github.com/bacalhau-project/bacalhau
In Bacalhau 1.0: Featuring Private Clusters, Octostore, and Federated Learning
I'm David Aronchick - first non-founding PM on Kubernetes, co-founder of Kubeflow [1], and co-founder of the SAME project [2] - and we've spent the past year working on Bacalhau [3], an open source project to bring compute to data. We've recently opened up a public-hosted cluster (all runnable from colab in our docs [4]) and would love your feedback - you can see our vision at the attached blog post. Thanks! Disclosure: I co-founded Bacalhau :) [1] https://kubeflow.org/ [2] https://sameproject.ml/ [3] https://github.com/bacalhau-project/bacalhau/ [4] https://docs.bacalhau.org/
In The Bacalhau Vision – A Distributed Compute over Data Platform

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