So there is the Synapse version that is required to get the big money contracts and the Synapse that is pretty inconsequential to the business except as a testing playground. - Makes it difficult to see how "Element is fully committed to community Synapse" can be true in the long run. Does this not spread the development effort & focus even thinner across these projects? And would reduced memory & cpu requirements not benefit all deployment sizes and not just nation-scale ones? It feels very much as a pivot towards a closed stack.
InfluxDB 3 just went alpha, and they similarly have very severe limitations on what their open-core product will do, very strongly drive folks to upgrade to enterprise.
https://www.influxdata.com/blog/influxdb3-open-source-public... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42684524 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42703113
While I admit that I don't think losing open source developers is actually that big a harm to many projects (there's just not enough people out there to drive by big valuable amazing features), I feel like the open core approach shuts yourself off from most people who are looking for open source solutions. The core is not enough.
No one's going to be happy running a 500x slower python project knowing there's the real deal running elsewhere, with a hip new runtime they can't get.
I recognize that for some of these companies, this probably is a necessary move. They need revenue to do what they do and it's hard to get revenue in open source. But these are both interesting products that I was hopeful for that I can't imagine adopting anymore. That's fine, I don't demand being served by anyone, but it is really sad to see, and I wonder how many awesome projects that would have grown big stop these technologies will never be created, because of these shifts.
Matrix especially feels like a brutal loss, because we are so short of good communication systems. I regret not seeing DataFusion & Arrow being out to use & integrate on with InfluxDB 3 but at least there's a lots of time-series databases available. Matrix's whole ecosystem has been slowly slowly slowly building momentum & acceptance, but there's so much less diversity & offerings, & that now Synapse Pro is needed if you want more than a simple instance.
I wonder when they'll finally fix that 7 year old double notification bug.
> However, it should be obvious that if the traffic levels spiked higher by 3x to ~120 events/s - then 75% of the worker’s time would be spent simply listening to traffic
For a 4GHz CPU core, with 4 instructions-per-clock, that works out to 100 million instructions per 'event'. That is efficiency so farcically low I can only attribute it to self-sabotage.. so they can sell the Pro version.