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Seq Blog
Company blog · blog.datalust.coprogrammingsystems
Seq Blog is the company blog at blog.datalust.co, writing about programming and systems. Since 2019, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Space-efficient indexing for immutable log data”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The Seq Blog from the developers of the Seq log server, covering its storage engine, log querying, performance and the Rust database behind it. HN readers cite it for technical detail on log tooling.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Engineering articles and release announcements from Datalust, the makers of Seq.
Most-linked posts?
- Space-efficient indexing for immutable log data2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-05-08
- A Tour of Seq's Storage Engine2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-08-13
- Deserializing JSON Fast (2020)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-09-11
What Hacker News says?
Flare’s ( https://blog.datalust.co/a-tour-of-seqs-storage-engine/ ) command line tool can query CLEF formatted (new-line delimited) JSON files and is perhaps an order of magnitude faster. Good for searching and aggregating. Probably not great for transformation.
Comment linking /a-tour-of-seqs-storage-engine/
on “Analyzing multi-gigabyte JSON files locally”Submitted Deserializing JSON Fast (2020) as a story · 81 points
HN discussionhttps://datalust.co/seq (my employer) uses a custom database built with Rust. We are about to remove the last C# database code because, as the previous commenter noted, garbage collection and databases don't mix. Over the next few years I expect we will see a lot of new databases written in Rust. https://blog.datalust.co/what-will-seq-vnext-look-like-on-th...
Comment linking /what-will-seq-vnext-look-like-on-the-inside/
on “Elastic, Loki and SigNoz – A Perf Benchmark of Open-Source Logging Platforms”Submitted Space-efficient indexing for immutable log data as a story · 9 points
HN discussionTake a look at the docs linked on the main page of Serilog[1] and the various videos[2] and blog posts[3] by the devs who make Seq. [1]: https://serilog.net/ [2]: https://datalust.co/ [3]: https://blog.datalust.co/
Comment linking /
on “Lnav – An advanced log file viewer for the small-scale”Submitted Seq 2020.3 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Datalust Seq adds Rust based query engine as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Tour of Seq's Storage Engine as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Space-efficient indexing for immutable log data as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Deserializing JSON Fast as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Seq 2020.1 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Seq 5.1 Release as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
