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Kentik
Company blog · kentik.com/blog · on HN as lafaysystemsweb
Kentik is the company blog at kentik.com, writing about systems and web. Since 2015, 42 different Hacker News readers have linked it 167 times, most often “The Mystery of AS8003”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Rarely recommended · 0 of 30 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers mostly mention Kentik in hiring threads, but its blog is also linked for network analysis posts on BGP incidents such as AS8003, subsea cable cuts, and internet history.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 30 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Kentik is the network intelligence platform for modern infrastructure teams. Improve network observability, performance, and security. Network monitoring and analytics for traffic, routing, synthetic testing, and cloud.
Most-linked posts?
- The Mystery of AS80036 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2021-04-24
- A Brief History of the Internet's Biggest BGP Incidents (2023)4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-06-06
- /careers/3 people · 14 mentions · first linked 2015-08-03
- Exodus of IPv4 from War-Torn Ukraine3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-05-28
- Ending Saint Helena's Exile from the Internet3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-10-11
- /careers2 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2015-07-01
- Implementing PostgreSQL Foreign Data Wrappers2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-09-11
- Digging into the Recent Azure Outage2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-02-03
- Why Can't Network Teams Have Nice Things?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-10-19
- The Russification of Ukrainian IP Registration2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-02-23
What Hacker News says?
Kentik | San Francisco | Full Time | REMOTE, VISA considered https://www.kentik.com/careers/ Interested in building a distributed column-store time series database? Crafting a sleek, intuitive front-end? Evangelizing a breakthrough approach to network intelligence? This is your opportunity to get involved in a dynamic, rapidly growing San Francisco-based startup. Kentik Technologies is the creator of Kentik Detect,…
Comment linking /careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2016)”Submitted Did AS8003 just disappear? as a story · 153 points
HN discussionKentik | San Francisco | Full Time | REMOTE, VISA considered https://www.kentik.com/careers/ Interested in building a distributed column-store time series database? Crafting a sleek, intuitive front-end? Evangelizing a breakthrough approach to network intelligence? This is your opportunity to get involved in a dynamic, rapidly growing San Francisco-based startup. Kentik Technologies is the creator of Kentik Detect,…
Comment linking /careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2017)”Submitted How Rust Helps Keep Kentik’s Performance on High as a story · 70 points
HN discussionKentik -- San Francisco Ever wanted to build your own time series database? C, Go, Lua, Node, postgres hacking on offer. We just raised a series A and are looking to build out several new products. We're a SaaS netflow company. What this means in practice is that we're building a custom db, and then building a visualization layer on top of this. The two layers speak SQL to each other or customers can query the db di…
Comment linking /careers
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2015)”Submitted Recent BGP leak that redirected internet traffic through Russia as a story · 57 points
HN discussionKentik | San Francisco | Full Time | REMOTE, VISA considered Our top hiring priorities: Engineering Leader, Backend https://www.kentik.com/careers/?gh_jid=163451 Senior Fullstack Javascript Engineer https://www.kentik.com/careers/?gh_jid=147806 Solutions Engineer https://www.kentik.com/careers/?gh_jid=156262 Interested in building a time series database, crafting a sleek, intuitive front-end, or evangelizing a break…
Comment linking /careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2016)”Submitted DDoS Mitigation Leak as a story · 50 points
HN discussionKentik | San Francisco | Full Time | REMOTE, VISA considered https://www.kentik.com/careers/ Interested in building a distributed column-store time series database? Crafting a sleek, intuitive front-end? Evangelizing a breakthrough approach to network intelligence? This is your opportunity to get involved in a dynamic, rapidly growing San Francisco-based startup. Kentik Technologies is the creator of Kentik Detect,…
Comment linking /careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2016)”Submitted PostgreSQL Foreign Data Wrappers as a story · 48 points
HN discussionKentik | Software Engineer | San Francisco | Onsite/Remote | Full-Time | kentik.com Who wants to build a database? A specialized database. Kentik is a tool to ingest and process network metadata: how many bytes, how many packets, are your tcp sessions suddenly seeing an uptick in re-transmits, how does your window size look, are you under attack, did you just get BGP high-jacked? We wrote a custom database in go, wh…
Comment linking /careers
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2018)”Submitted The Mystery of AS8003 as a story · 45 points
HN discussionKentik | Software Engineer | San Francisco | Onsite/Remote | Full-Time | kentik.com Kentik is a database company masquerading as a network BI tool: https://www.kentik.com/inside-the-kentik-data-engine-part-1 . We wrote a custom database in go, which at its heart works by taking a time range, storing all events by time-slice and then at query time querying each time segment in parallel. This is hidden behind a Postgr…
Comment linking /careers
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2018)”Submitted What Caused the Red Sea Submarine Cable Cuts? as a story · 32 points
HN discussionKentik | Backend Software Engineers | Full-Time | Remote or onsite in San Francisco | kentik.com Network Traffic Intelligence, DDoS Detection & Mitigation We're looking for Senior Software Engineers to join our backend team, working on platform services and our monitoring/alerting product. See https://www.kentik.com/careers/?gh_jid=156284 or contact me at stefan@kentik.com
Comment linking /careers/?gh_jid=156284
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2017)”Submitted Subsea Cables Parted in Red Sea Again as a story · 30 points
HN discussionKentik | JS and/or Go Engineer | San Francisco, CA | Full-time | ONSITE, REMOTE Kentik is a company collecting network telemetry and making it useful. We run a custom database, anomaly detection engine and visualization system. Work as a true full stack engineer, from the local storage filesystem all the way up to browser clients. Handle trillions of data points per day. Hiring for JS, Rust and Go devs, remote or in…
Comment linking /careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2018)”Submitted Exodus of IPv4 from War-Torn Ukraine as a story · 18 points
HN discussion> Defense Digital Service (DDS) authorized a pilot effort advertising DoD Internet Protocol (IP) space using Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). This pilot will assess, evaluate and prevent unauthorized use of DoD IP address space. Additionally, this pilot may identify potential vulnerabilities. This is one of DoD’s many efforts focused on continually improving our cyber posture and defense in response to advanced persis…
Comment linking /blog/the-mystery-of-as8003/
on “Millions of the Pentagon’s dormant IP addresses sprang to life on January 20”Submitted The Evolution of Docker as a story · 11 points
HN discussionRelated: https://www.kentik.com/blog/the-mystery-of-as8003/ (via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26924988 , but no comments there to speak of)
Comment linking /blog/the-mystery-of-as8003/
on “Millions of the Pentagon’s dormant IP addresses sprang to life on January 20”Submitted A Network Crumb Back Story: A Baker's Dozen Retrospective as a story · 9 points
HN discussionKentik | San Francisco && Remote | Full Stack && Systems Dev Kentik lets you see what the network is doing. We work at terabit scale, consuming trillions of data points a day. We are hiring both full stuck JS coders and distributed systems engineers. We code in JS, Go, C, C++ and Python. Problems to be solved include accepting and displaying disparate data feeds (application logs, network logs, active checks, ...) i…
Comment linking /careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2016)”Submitted Kentik: netflow-based traffic visibility at Terabit scale as a story · 9 points
HN discussionKentik | San Francisco | Full Time | REMOTE, VISA considered https://www.kentik.com/careers/ Interested in building a time series database, crafting a sleek, intuitive front-end, or evangelizing a breakthrough approach to network intelligence? This is your opportunity to get involved in a dynamic San Francisco-based startup with major growth potential. Kentik Technologies is the creator of Kentik Detect, a big data-…
Comment linking /careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2016)”Submitted Visualizing the solar eclipse's impact on US Internet traffic as a story · 6 points
HN discussion> the internet https://www.kentik.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-the-internets... > power grid https://www.entsoe.eu/publications/blackout/28-april-2025-ib...
Comment linking /blog/a-brief-history-of-the-internets-biggest-bgp-incidents/
on “Summary of the Amazon DynamoDB Service Disruption in US-East-1 Region”Submitted A Brief History of the Internet's Biggest BGP Incidents (2023) as a story · 5 points
HN discussionKentik | San Francisco | Full Time | REMOTE, VISA considered https://www.kentik.com/careers/ Interested in building a distributed column-store time series database? Crafting a sleek, intuitive front-end? Evangelizing a breakthrough approach to network intelligence? This is your opportunity to get involved in a dynamic, rapidly growing San Francisco-based startup. Kentik Technologies is the creator of Kentik Detect,…
Comment linking /careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2016)”Submitted The Starlink Outage and Its Impact on Community Gateways as a story · 4 points
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