Trifle – Open-source analytics that stores answers, not events

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Trifle is an open-source time-series analytics library that aggregates nested counters instead of storing raw events. All in the database you already have. After rebuilding it twice over 10 years, it now tracks ~1B events a day at my day job.It started in 2015 as my own Rails APM. I plugged into ActiveSupport::Notifications, got a few small users, and one bigger one whose scraping app broke everything. That sparked the core idea: aggregate counters into pre-defined time buckets, so a single write increments multiple buckets at once. The APM eventually faded away without much traction.Later in 2021 I needed analytics at my day job. Instead of going for something out there I revised the idea o

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