Open Sourcing Venice – LinkedIn’s Derived Data Platform

This is great! Thank you for your many contributions to Open Source. Any plans to open Galene?

I am actually working on a side project several years on now that may benefit from Venice at some point :) Thanks again!

I think companies looking to decrease their development costs are going to be disappointed with open sourcing... That does not happen, by and large. Increasing creds is an aspect. Increasing the quality of the software is another one, IMHO.

The thing with Venice is that it is a datastore. It does not have any business-specific logic. By itself, the only competitive advantage Venice provides is that it is a datastore that has first-class support for ingesting batch data. We feel this is not something that needs to be kept as a closely-guarded secret. We have already discussed the architecture of Venice in conferences and articles.

As per decreasing the cost of development over the next few years, it is actually quite the opposite. In the near term, the cost of development increases as the system not-only needs to work in your organization, but also work externally - with external technologies.

You are right that reducing the cost of development is a goal, but there are many things that need to be done initially to facilitate that and make the project self-sustaining.