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Re:Launch HN: Convoy (YC W22) – Open-source cloud-native web... by tasn on Friday February 25, 2022 @03:35PM (#30472050)
Founder of Svix here.

I don't know if I'd call us SaaS first, though we definitely spend a lot of time, money and attention making sure our SaaS offering is as reliable as it gets if that's what you mean.

FWIW, I've been an OSS developer and maintainer for all my life (my previous business was also open source), and open sourcing Svix was always the plan. It was literally one of the first tickets I opened for the team, and our first public commit was in Feb 2021.

We've indeed recently announced the open sourcing of our webhooks dispatcher[0]. It's written in Rust, so also a single binary with no third party dependencies. We do NOT however offer in memory storage. This is on purpose, as persistence is a requirement for robustness.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30347858

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Re:Launch HN: Convoy (YC W22) – Open-source cloud-native web... by jedberg on Friday February 25, 2022 @03:58PM (#30472306)
> We do NOT however offer in memory storage. This is on purpose, as persistence is a requirement for robustness.

Oooo shots fired. :)

I can see arguments both ways. You're totally correct in that queue robustness requires persistence. That being said, if it's an open source tool then it can make sense to offer in memory storage since they may have persistence in a different part of the stack.

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Re:Launch HN: Convoy (YC W22) – Open-source cloud-native web... by subomi on Friday February 25, 2022 @04:12PM (#30472434)
Oh, for clarity we do not support an in memory storage. We support an on disk storage & in memory queue. This enables the storage layer persist events across restarts.
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Re:Launch HN: Convoy (YC W22) – Open-source cloud-native web... by tasn on Friday February 25, 2022 @04:05PM (#30472368)
Sure, but then you'd want to hide it behind an `--i-really-know-what-im-doing` flag to prevent people from shooting themselves in the foot.

Also, even if the persistence is elsewhere in the stack, it's not obvious to me how disaster recovery will actually work. Same with accounting (e.g. marking a message as sent). I'm not saying it's not possible, it's just not immediately obvious to me how you can make that both simple and robust.

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Re:Launch HN: Convoy (YC W22) – Open-source cloud-native web... by vincentmarle on Friday February 25, 2022 @06:21PM (#30473593)
> I don't know if I'd call us SaaS first

> We've indeed recently announced the open sourcing of our webhooks dispatcher

So which one came first? SaaS or OSS?

Also how are you different than Convoy?

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