About ThomasThomas Hazel is Founder, CTO, and Chief Scientist of ChaosSearch. He is a serial entrepreneur at the forefront of communication, virtualization, and database technology and the inventor of ChaosSearch's patented IP. Thomas has also patented several other technologies in the areas of distributed algorithms, virtualization and database science. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from University of New Hampshire, Hall of Fame Alumni Inductee, and founded both student & professional chapters of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).Links Referenced:
ChaosSearch: https://www.chaossearch.io/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ChaosSearch

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CHAOSSEARCH/

TranscriptAnnouncer: Hello, and welcome to Screaming in the Cloud with your host, Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group, Corey Quinn. This weekly show features conversations with people doing interesting work in the world of cloud, thoughtful commentary on the state of the technical world, and ridiculous titles for which Corey refuses to apologize. This is Screaming in the Cloud.Corey: This episode is sponsored in part by our friends at AWS AppConfig. Engineers love to solve, and occasionally create, problems. But not when it’s an on-call fire-drill at 4 in the morning. Software problems should drive innovation and collaboration, NOT stress, and sleeplessness, and threats of violence. That’s why so many developers are realizing the value of AWS AppConfig Feature Flags. Feature Flags let developers push code to production, but hide that that feature from customers so that the developers can release their feature when it’s ready. This practice allows for safe, fast, and convenient software development. You can seamlessly incorporate AppConfig Feature Flags into your AWS or cloud environment and ship your Features with excitement, not trepidation and fear. To get started, go to snark.cloud/appconfig. That’s snark.cloud/appconfig.Corey: Welcome to Screaming in the Cloud. I’m Corey Quinn. This promoted episode is brought to us by our returning sponsor and friend, ChaosSearch. And once again, the fine folks at ChaosSearch has seen fit to basically subject their CTO and Founder, Thomas Hazel, to my slings and arrows. Thomas, thank you for joining me. It feels like it’s been a hot minute since we last caught up.Thomas: Yeah, Corey. Great to be on the program again, then. I think it’s been almost a year. So, I look forward to these. They’re fun, they’re interesting, and you know, always a good time.Corey: It’s always fun to just take a look at companies’ web pages in the Wayback Machine, archive.org, where you can see snapshots of them at various points in time. Usually, it feels like this is either used for long-gone things and people want to remember the internet of yesteryear, or alternately to deliver sick burns with retorting a “This you,” when someone winds up making an unpopular statement. One of the approaches I like to use it for, which is significantly less nefarious—usually—is looking back in time at companies’ websites, just to see how the positioning of the product evolves over time.And ChaosSearch has had an interesting evolution in that direction. But before we get into that, assuming that there might actually be people listening who do not know the intimate details of exactly what it is you folks do, what is ChaosSearch, and what might you folks do?Thomas: Yeah, well said, and I look forward to [laugh] doing the Wayback Time because some of our ideas, way back when, seemed crazy, but now they make a lot of sense. So, what ChaosSearch is all about is transforming customers’ cloud object stores like Amazon S3 into an analytical database that supports search and SQL-type use cases. Now, where’s that apply? In log analytics, observability, security, security data lakes, operational data, particularly at scale, where you just stream your data into your data lake, connect our service, our SaaS service, to that la