VictoriaMetrics takes organic growth over investor pressure

2023-12-11 10:15

Co-founder Roman Khavronenko, who was speaking to us at a recent Kubecon event about open source, licensing, and the pressure of accepting venture capital, opines that, barring a few success stories, "In most cases, startups fail because of this huge pressure."

The company operates open source time series database monitoring.

Talk of avoiding pressure from investors inevitably leads the conversation to the recent moves towards license changes in the open source world.

VictoriaMetrics uses an Apache 2 license for its open source product, but the enterprise tooling is resolutely closed source and requires an activation key.

Khavronenko says: "We are fully committed to using Apache 2, and we are not going to change that. And most of our work - probably 99 percent of what we do every day - is about open source."

The company says it remains enthusiastic about open source, and values the community that has followed it from its beginnings on GitHub to where it is today, Khavronenko wants us to know.

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