alt Hacker NewsYou are conflating the challenges of ingesting and querying at large scale with the what the original comment is about, which is emitting them more easily.
You are conflating the challenges of ingesting and querying at large scale with the what the original comment is about, which is emitting them more easily.
I don't see them as separate issues. Emitting them directly runs into the inherently poor memory locality (and potentially concurrency) of trying to produce logs, metrics, and traces from the same underlying event data representation.
It is only "easy" if performance and scalability don't matter.