Ben Johnson

Founder, Tero Edge · 1 appearance on the record.

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Ben Johnson co-founded Timber Technologies and created Vector, an open-source observability data router acquired by Datadog in 2021. Earlier in his engineering career, he created widely used Ruby on Rails open-source libraries, including Authlogic and Searchlogic.

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Ben Johnson: Real-time data processing was a major challenge with Elasticsearch

“So being being real-time and processing this data was really important, and that was a real challenge with Elasticsearch.”

Ben Johnson Dec 5, 2018 ▶ 4:01 A New Kind of Logging System // Zach Sherman & Ben Johnson, Timber (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)

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Ben Johnson: Routing layer is the most valuable part of Timber's pipeline

“We want to talk to you about what we have found to be the most valuable aspect of our data pipeline. We call it the routing layer. It's really been the foundation of all the value we've extracted out of that.”

Ben Johnson Dec 5, 2018 ▶ 0:16 A New Kind of Logging System // Zach Sherman & Ben Johnson, Timber (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)

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Ben Johnson: Timber struggled to scale Elasticsearch past multiple terabytes

“What we found though is that while it was good getting started, we encountered a lot of challenges with it, especially when we started to cross over into the multiple terabyte range. And we had a lot of trouble scaling it.”

Ben Johnson Dec 5, 2018 ▶ 2:46 A New Kind of Logging System // Zach Sherman & Ben Johnson, Timber (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)

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Ben Johnson: No single storage engine could completely replace Elasticsearch

“What was interesting is that all of these storages have different strengths, but none of them really could just completely replace Elasticsearch.”

Ben Johnson Dec 5, 2018 ▶ 4:19 A New Kind of Logging System // Zach Sherman & Ben Johnson, Timber (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)

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Johnson: Timber intends to open-source its log routing technology

“Our intent is to open source this project.”

Ben Johnson Dec 5, 2018 ▶ 16:30 A New Kind of Logging System // Zach Sherman & Ben Johnson, Timber (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)

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Ben Johnson: Developers increasingly use machine logs for user analytics

“Recently we've seen developers use that for understanding user behavior and analytics”

Ben Johnson Dec 5, 2018 ▶ 0:56 A New Kind of Logging System // Zach Sherman & Ben Johnson, Timber (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)

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Timber.io processes 3 billion events daily across 4,000 applications

“We process almost eight gigabytes a day. We do five to 6000 requests per second, three billion events. We have 4000 applications sending us data.”

Ben Johnson Dec 5, 2018 ▶ 1:09 A New Kind of Logging System // Zach Sherman & Ben Johnson, Timber (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)

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Episode	Date	Speaking time
A New Kind of Logging System // Zach Sherman & Ben Johnson, Timber (FirstMark's Data Drive	Dec 5, 2018	9m

Ben Johnson

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