Jonathan Grahl
@bittermandel.bsky.social
Founder @ Molnett.com
Diving into databases, distributed computing and developer-friendly systems
Diving into databases, distributed computing and developer-friendly systems
Understandable billing is a core part of how we're building Molnett. The industry standard is to hide consumption behind abstractions like credits, at the customers expense.
This is our first step to remove the abstractions and let users know the truth before the invoice is sent!
This is our first step to remove the abstractions and let users know the truth before the invoice is sent!
May 13, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Understandable billing is a core part of how we're building Molnett. The industry standard is to hide consumption behind abstractions like credits, at the customers expense.
This is our first step to remove the abstractions and let users know the truth before the invoice is sent!
This is our first step to remove the abstractions and let users know the truth before the invoice is sent!
Starting to figure out the billing as well. We have all the data, just need to find a good way to visualze it
May 12, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Starting to figure out the billing as well. We have all the data, just need to find a good way to visualze it
Sometimes life doesn’t go as planned. My dog Alice moved on today after a long fight with intestinal problems, and leaves behind an endless amount of good memories and laughs. Even though it was a short visit in our home, she made a huge impact on our family.
April 21, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Sometimes life doesn’t go as planned. My dog Alice moved on today after a long fight with intestinal problems, and leaves behind an endless amount of good memories and laughs. Even though it was a short visit in our home, she made a huge impact on our family.
What Object Storage based databases are there out there that has built-in support for multi tenancy? The absolute majority of Open Source projects have removed their multi-tenancy support as it's their moat for the Cloud product. Only one I know of is Neon, which don't publish their control plane.
April 18, 2025 at 11:26 AM
What Object Storage based databases are there out there that has built-in support for multi tenancy? The absolute majority of Open Source projects have removed their multi-tenancy support as it's their moat for the Cloud product. Only one I know of is Neon, which don't publish their control plane.
Ended up at the emergency with my daschshund Alice :(
Alice keeps eating random foods off the ground outside, often eating grass which makes her throw up.
Now she ate something bigger (AGAIN!!) and I’m here waiting for the IV to take effect…
I think she’ll be ok 🙏
Alice keeps eating random foods off the ground outside, often eating grass which makes her throw up.
Now she ate something bigger (AGAIN!!) and I’m here waiting for the IV to take effect…
I think she’ll be ok 🙏
April 17, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Ended up at the emergency with my daschshund Alice :(
Alice keeps eating random foods off the ground outside, often eating grass which makes her throw up.
Now she ate something bigger (AGAIN!!) and I’m here waiting for the IV to take effect…
I think she’ll be ok 🙏
Alice keeps eating random foods off the ground outside, often eating grass which makes her throw up.
Now she ate something bigger (AGAIN!!) and I’m here waiting for the IV to take effect…
I think she’ll be ok 🙏
Once again reminded over how absolutely GARBAGE Azure is compared to any other alternative. The non-existent feedback from Function App when deploying code is mind blowing. How could they make a product that cannot produce any feedback on when things go wrong? If things are even wrong at all.
WTF
WTF
March 26, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Once again reminded over how absolutely GARBAGE Azure is compared to any other alternative. The non-existent feedback from Function App when deploying code is mind blowing. How could they make a product that cannot produce any feedback on when things go wrong? If things are even wrong at all.
WTF
WTF
Very happy how the new deployment flow working out at Molnett. This is made mostly with @temporal.io and our own operators on top of Kubernetes!
The UI is exclusively made with vibe coding in Cursor. My co-founder Sascha believes I'm the god of 80/20 at this point 😅 But it feels good and looks OK!
The UI is exclusively made with vibe coding in Cursor. My co-founder Sascha believes I'm the god of 80/20 at this point 😅 But it feels good and looks OK!
March 21, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Very happy how the new deployment flow working out at Molnett. This is made mostly with @temporal.io and our own operators on top of Kubernetes!
The UI is exclusively made with vibe coding in Cursor. My co-founder Sascha believes I'm the god of 80/20 at this point 😅 But it feels good and looks OK!
The UI is exclusively made with vibe coding in Cursor. My co-founder Sascha believes I'm the god of 80/20 at this point 😅 But it feels good and looks OK!
I’m finally at Cloudfest, a massive conference for traditional web hosting, and it seems I’m in for a ride. People are very eager to party here at Europa Park, so I’ll have to pace myself 😆
March 18, 2025 at 7:57 AM
I’m finally at Cloudfest, a massive conference for traditional web hosting, and it seems I’m in for a ride. People are very eager to party here at Europa Park, so I’ll have to pace myself 😆
There's been a large movement recently in pointing out that European countries have to establish their own sovereign digital infrastructure. Today molnett, together with many other companies like Airbus and Clever Cloud, sent a letter to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
Airbus and others call for sovereign infrastructure fund, buy European
Airbus , Dassault Systemes and more than 90 smaller European technology companies and lobby groups have urged European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to create a sovereign infrastructure fund to ramp up public investments in cutting-edge technologies.
www.reuters.com
March 17, 2025 at 8:31 AM
There's been a large movement recently in pointing out that European countries have to establish their own sovereign digital infrastructure. Today molnett, together with many other companies like Airbus and Clever Cloud, sent a letter to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
What has happened after over a decade of transitioning digital services from traditionally EU-owned infrastructure to American-owned hyperscalers?
We call it Digital Colonization!
Read more about it in our latest article on Digital Colonization
molnett.com/blog/posts/2...
We call it Digital Colonization!
Read more about it in our latest article on Digital Colonization
molnett.com/blog/posts/2...
Europe, the Digital Colony
Digital colonisation is happening before our eyes. We're sleepwalking into a digital dependency that puts our hospitals, schools, and government services at risk.
molnett.com
March 12, 2025 at 3:12 PM
What has happened after over a decade of transitioning digital services from traditionally EU-owned infrastructure to American-owned hyperscalers?
We call it Digital Colonization!
Read more about it in our latest article on Digital Colonization
molnett.com/blog/posts/2...
We call it Digital Colonization!
Read more about it in our latest article on Digital Colonization
molnett.com/blog/posts/2...
Stumbled upon this strange problem when self-hosting the Ory products Keto and Hydra. When connecting to Neon's cloud-hosted Postgres servers, the client doesn't deal with TLS correctly and closes connections before sending "close_notify", causing a bunch of issues with connection resets.
March 1, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Stumbled upon this strange problem when self-hosting the Ory products Keto and Hydra. When connecting to Neon's cloud-hosted Postgres servers, the client doesn't deal with TLS correctly and closes connections before sending "close_notify", causing a bunch of issues with connection resets.
I used Azure's Functions as a Service (Function App) today and it's THE worst experience I've ever had for any workload ever. I don't see how a non-senior engineer could setup a decent pipeline within less than a few DAYS of work.
Totally flabbergasted.
Totally flabbergasted.
February 27, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I used Azure's Functions as a Service (Function App) today and it's THE worst experience I've ever had for any workload ever. I don't see how a non-senior engineer could setup a decent pipeline within less than a few DAYS of work.
Totally flabbergasted.
Totally flabbergasted.
Wow, I have to go!
Fyre Festival 2 is coming, and it already sounds bananas (and not in a good way)
Fyre Festival 2 is coming, and it already sounds bananas (and not in a good way)
Billy McFarland is back, with Fyre Festival 2. Scheduled to take place in Isla Mujeres, Mexico from May 30 to June 2, tickets went on sale Monday, ranging from $1,400 to a truly brazen $1.1 million — even though no artists have been confirmed, and…
tcrn.ch
February 25, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Wow, I have to go!
Testing Claude Code for the first time. First impressions 🧵
February 24, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Testing Claude Code for the first time. First impressions 🧵
Recently delved into Test Containers after my colleague setup a pretty good integration test suite for our monorepo. Didn't take long until I had to add another dependency and down the rabbit hole we go of running all production services on our laptops 🥲
February 24, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Recently delved into Test Containers after my colleague setup a pretty good integration test suite for our monorepo. Didn't take long until I had to add another dependency and down the rabbit hole we go of running all production services on our laptops 🥲
Got recommended the conference cloudfest.com by our advisors exactly one year ago. I've never heard anyone talk about it, but it does seem where the non-US/non-hyperscalers meet to chat Cloud!
So I decided to go. Hope to meet some cool hardware vendors, perhaps @oxide.computer is there?
So I decided to go. Hope to meet some cool hardware vendors, perhaps @oxide.computer is there?
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cloudfest.com
February 19, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Got recommended the conference cloudfest.com by our advisors exactly one year ago. I've never heard anyone talk about it, but it does seem where the non-US/non-hyperscalers meet to chat Cloud!
So I decided to go. Hope to meet some cool hardware vendors, perhaps @oxide.computer is there?
So I decided to go. Hope to meet some cool hardware vendors, perhaps @oxide.computer is there?
there's something brilliant with bazel when you get it right. definitely takes time to start and to maintain, but the magic while it does its thing is amazing.
being able to bring up our entire production cluster locally ON MY LAPTOP within minutes is a blessing. worth all the time in the world.
being able to bring up our entire production cluster locally ON MY LAPTOP within minutes is a blessing. worth all the time in the world.
December 7, 2024 at 10:24 AM
there's something brilliant with bazel when you get it right. definitely takes time to start and to maintain, but the magic while it does its thing is amazing.
being able to bring up our entire production cluster locally ON MY LAPTOP within minutes is a blessing. worth all the time in the world.
being able to bring up our entire production cluster locally ON MY LAPTOP within minutes is a blessing. worth all the time in the world.
Just did Day 1 of Advent of Code. Not super elegant, but I really liked this cargo-aoc tool! Really helped to get going fast.
github.com/bittermandel...
github.com/bittermandel...
December 1, 2024 at 1:10 PM
Just did Day 1 of Advent of Code. Not super elegant, but I really liked this cargo-aoc tool! Really helped to get going fast.
github.com/bittermandel...
github.com/bittermandel...
Contracts agreed upon and signed with our *first* production-environment client! Huge step for us at molnett.com, I'm really excited to get them on-board.
November 27, 2024 at 2:17 PM
Contracts agreed upon and signed with our *first* production-environment client! Huge step for us at molnett.com, I'm really excited to get them on-board.
lovable.dev launched just a few days ago. They run on Fly.io and start a machine for each user, which at this point is probably in the 10s(100s?) of thousands.
Last night they brought Fly down with them! status.flyio.net/incidents/dt...
Last night they brought Fly down with them! status.flyio.net/incidents/dt...
Lovable
Build software products, using only a chat interface
lovable.dev
November 26, 2024 at 10:12 AM
lovable.dev launched just a few days ago. They run on Fly.io and start a machine for each user, which at this point is probably in the 10s(100s?) of thousands.
Last night they brought Fly down with them! status.flyio.net/incidents/dt...
Last night they brought Fly down with them! status.flyio.net/incidents/dt...
I have to say that Kubernetes has once again saved my ass. We had a full outage for ~10 minute due to Hetzner doing a planned maintenance which was supposed to be staggered.
Kubernetes fully healed itself within a few minutes and we're good to go again! It always surprises me that it just works.
Kubernetes fully healed itself within a few minutes and we're good to go again! It always surprises me that it just works.
November 26, 2024 at 9:45 AM
I have to say that Kubernetes has once again saved my ass. We had a full outage for ~10 minute due to Hetzner doing a planned maintenance which was supposed to be staggered.
Kubernetes fully healed itself within a few minutes and we're good to go again! It always surprises me that it just works.
Kubernetes fully healed itself within a few minutes and we're good to go again! It always surprises me that it just works.
I keep getting hooked by the thesis', posts or whitepapers that describe system protocols in detail and in it's simplest form, proves that it's correct so the rest of us can build on top of it without worrying.
Should maybe do an informal survey paper on that?
www.datadoghq.com/blog/enginee...
Should maybe do an informal survey paper on that?
www.datadoghq.com/blog/enginee...
How we use formal modeling, lightweight simulations, and chaos testing to design reliable distributed systems
Learn how we used formal modeling and simulation to analyze a distributed, multi-tenant queueing system.
www.datadoghq.com
November 21, 2024 at 8:39 AM
I keep getting hooked by the thesis', posts or whitepapers that describe system protocols in detail and in it's simplest form, proves that it's correct so the rest of us can build on top of it without worrying.
Should maybe do an informal survey paper on that?
www.datadoghq.com/blog/enginee...
Should maybe do an informal survey paper on that?
www.datadoghq.com/blog/enginee...