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.
Gotta pick up my son at LAX in a few hours 😵💫
November 26, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Gotta pick up my son at LAX in a few hours 😵💫
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.
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.
From OTel to Rotel: Petabyte-scale tracing with 4x greater throughput
Read how Streamfold’s Rotel pushes OpenTelemetry 4x faster into ClickHouse - benchmarking efficiency at scale and revealing the tools that make it happen
clickhou.se
November 25, 2025 at 6:32 PM
If you dig observability, ClickHouse, distributed tracing, and performance engineering peep this post from me, @mike.heffner.io, and the ClickHouse Eng team.
Saw it again Saturday, even better the second time. “You’re a bad hombre, Bob”
October 20, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Saw it again Saturday, even better the second time. “You’re a bad hombre, Bob”
Ocean waves, ocean waves.
October 20, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Ocean waves, ocean waves.
It’s kind of crazy you can just rock a white t with anything but putting on white pants is almost insane.
October 20, 2025 at 4:49 AM
It’s kind of crazy you can just rock a white t with anything but putting on white pants is almost insane.
Men will literally try to sell you an “enterprise grade, AI agent that doesn’t hallucinate” instead of going to therapy.
September 23, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Men will literally try to sell you an “enterprise grade, AI agent that doesn’t hallucinate” instead of going to therapy.
Bloodborne ass looking dog
September 23, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Bloodborne ass looking dog
It required me doing ungodly things.
September 23, 2025 at 1:58 AM
It required me doing ungodly things.
Still recovering from some Achilles tendonitis but getting there.
August 4, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Still recovering from some Achilles tendonitis but getting there.
Going out to be old and bad at skateboarding.
August 4, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Going out to be old and bad at skateboarding.
When the kids were young and got sick my neighbor Laura would say “dose ‘em with delsym”.
July 24, 2025 at 2:44 AM
When the kids were young and got sick my neighbor Laura would say “dose ‘em with delsym”.
Everyone in Paris seems so relaxed but I haven’t smelled weed in a week. How they do it?
Oh right, free health care 🤦♀️
Oh right, free health care 🤦♀️
July 12, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Everyone in Paris seems so relaxed but I haven’t smelled weed in a week. How they do it?
Oh right, free health care 🤦♀️
Oh right, free health care 🤦♀️
Didn’t get to see le chat blanc today so had to settle for this.
July 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Didn’t get to see le chat blanc today so had to settle for this.
Thought about jimmies rustling, today.
July 11, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Thought about jimmies rustling, today.
Never stop euromaxxing
July 7, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Never stop euromaxxing
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 🤣.
“Yeah we tried it and it was 8x faster than our existing solution”. We thought today was our first official announcement 🤣.
Rotel - High Performance, Resource Efficient OpenTelemetry Collector | Rotel
High-performance, Resource Efficient OpenTelemetry Collector.
rotel.dev
June 27, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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 🤣.
“Yeah we tried it and it was 8x faster than our existing solution”. We thought today was our first official announcement 🤣.