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> I was really surprised at how well Timescales compression worked. It was pretty much comparable to best in class columnstores. Only the row-by-row query execution engine was holding it back. Perhaps something that future versions of postgres can help with.

I think zedstore[0] might be something that could help here. I've mentioned it in the past but one of the best things about postgres is it's extensibility, and if timescale rides that wave (and maybe contacts zedstore to get this integration started early) it could be awesome.

[0]: https://blogs.vmware.com/opensource/2020/07/14/zedstore-compressed-columnar-storage-for-postgres/

> Didn't look into Druid in detail, but did try out Hive. Both of them look more suitable for cases where there is significant engineering effort in developing the data ingest and structuring pipeline. I wouldn't recommend either to a small team. With a measly triple digit TB database size both seemed overkill.

Thanks for this -- I haven't tried it yet at all but will try to remember this. ClickHouse was already first on my list for hobbyist->enterprise scalability but this cements it.

Contour is a gateway: a controller that manages Envoy proxies at the edge of a Kubernetes environment. Istio is a service mesh: a controller that manages Envoy proxies at the edge and alongside each workload. If you are using Istio, you probably don't need Contour.

A year ago, a number of Envoy gateway maintainers (including Contour) announced their intention to join up to build one implementation of an Envoy gateway. They haven't made a lot of noise since, but they are apparently up to v0.4.

https://blogs.vmware.com/opensource/2022/05/16/contour-and-community-build-new-envoy-gateway/

You can also use the Gateway API to manage Istio. So, if you are using Istio, you probably don't need Envoy Gateway either.

Wherever you look, it's still Envoy. Unless of course you look at Linkerd, who have their own thing.

VMWare's desktop hypervisors were announced to be free to use a little while ago:

* https://blogs.vmware.com/cloud-foundation/2024/11/11/vmware-fusion-and-workstation-are-now-free-for-all-users/

You need to register an account/e-mail address for a free account:

* https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article?articleNumber=145581

After which you can download VMware Fusion Pro and/or VMware Workstation Pro:

* https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article/368667/download-and-license-vmware-desktop-hype.html

This seems to be a perpetual licence (?), so as long as it can run on the underlying OS you can continue to use it. Not sure if there's any 'phone home' functionality to track things (like has been seen with Oracle VirtualBox).

It sounds like vmklinux is deprecated but still shipping for older drivers if I'm understanding their documentation. https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2019/04/what-is-the-impact-of-the-vmklinux-driver-stack-deprecation.html vSphere 6.7 (which they're still supporting and shipping updates to as it was only released last June), includes the vmklinux driver stack.

For those reading along at home, that's a shim layer to link GPLed code into the closed source hypervisor.

It's absurd that the company responsible for some of the most blatant license violations in the industry (and is still actively continuing to violate after a decade) is trying to push itself as open source friendly.

Do you mean migrate a physical Linux server to a VMware VM? There is/was a tool called p2v converter that can image a physical server to a VM. No idea how well it is supported these days but I've used it in the past for this purpose when I was dealing with "kittens vs cattle".

[Edit] It appears they removed it from downloads due to some security bug. [1] I imagine you may still be able to find it somewhere in their forums or open a ticket and tell them you accept all risk.

[1] - https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2022/02/vcenter-converter-unavailable-for-download.html

I am running a hypervisor (https://blogs.vmware.com/arm/2023/12/15/esxi-arm-fling-1-15-refresh/) on my Raspberry Pi 4. Rock solid.

Currently running virtual machines: * Home Assistant (https://home-assistant.io/) - with USB passthrough of USB stick to read out my digital electricity/gas meters, Zigbee and Z-Wave * Homebridge (to allow my Eufy video doorbell to work with Homekit) * Pihole

All are running from iSCSI storage served by my Synology NAS.

I am running an older Pi (3) on demand in my garden as a client for my media server to play music on garden speakers.