Glauber Costa

What we do not expect is that what we decided to do is just make it an official torso experiment. But if you read the posts in which we were announcing this, we were very clear. We don't have a roadmap for this. Don't ask us what our intentions are. There is nothing that we want to do with this one on the short term. This was an experiment on Pekka's GitHub that actually did pretty well.

What we do not expect is that what we decided to do is just make it an official torso experiment. But if you read the posts in which we were announcing this, we were very clear. We don't have a roadmap for this. Don't ask us what our intentions are. There is nothing that we want to do with this one on the short term. This was an experiment on Pekka's GitHub that actually did pretty well.

It did pretty well based on two metrics. We got 1,000 GitHub stars and we never talked about it. We never talked about it. And we got two incredibly good engineers that started, one from Red Hat, who is now with us. I mean, so we hired those two engineers. We got two incredibly good engineers that started contributing to the project. Again, it was just a project on Pekka's GitHub. Mm-hmm.

It did pretty well based on two metrics. We got 1,000 GitHub stars and we never talked about it. We never talked about it. And we got two incredibly good engineers that started, one from Red Hat, who is now with us. I mean, so we hired those two engineers. We got two incredibly good engineers that started contributing to the project. Again, it was just a project on Pekka's GitHub. Mm-hmm.

So we knew that we knew there was something there and we decided, let's just now publish it as a official torso experiment. We wrote in the blog post, maybe if this goes, if that goes well in six months, we can start pouring some of our resources and interest and then we're going to see what happened. So we had. We had some idea that this will be useful at some point.

So we knew that we knew there was something there and we decided, let's just now publish it as a official torso experiment. We wrote in the blog post, maybe if this goes, if that goes well in six months, we can start pouring some of our resources and interest and then we're going to see what happened. So we had. We had some idea that this will be useful at some point.

We just did not know it will be so well received to the point that it was to the point that we changed our entire company strategy now to be able to pour our whole weight of our resources behind the project. Right. And that's what we're going to do.

We just did not know it will be so well received to the point that it was to the point that we changed our entire company strategy now to be able to pour our whole weight of our resources behind the project. Right. And that's what we're going to do.

We're all in. In fact, we wrote a blog post last week telling the story, a lot of what we're discussing here. Hey, I mean, this is – look, in my wildest dreams, in my wildest dreams, I would expect maybe this to gain like 2,000 more stars in a month or so than from 1,000 goes to 3,000.

We're all in. In fact, we wrote a blog post last week telling the story, a lot of what we're discussing here. Hey, I mean, this is – look, in my wildest dreams, in my wildest dreams, I would expect maybe this to gain like 2,000 more stars in a month or so than from 1,000 goes to 3,000.

Maybe a couple of other engineers that would come and contribute as well and start slowly, but we would see some potential on it. That was my definition of success. And every single metric that we thought Limbo could be successful at, we saw three times more, four times more than what we anticipated. So we decided to go all in.

Maybe a couple of other engineers that would come and contribute as well and start slowly, but we would see some potential on it. That was my definition of success. And every single metric that we thought Limbo could be successful at, we saw three times more, four times more than what we anticipated. So we decided to go all in.

And there is a blog post that we wrote recently with all the changes that we're going to make to the platform to allow us to do this. With all the changes that we're doing to the company, we had a lot of reorganizations internally. And this is really something that we decided in a couple of weeks in January. Because we just like, how can we ignore this?

And there is a blog post that we wrote recently with all the changes that we're going to make to the platform to allow us to do this. With all the changes that we're doing to the company, we had a lot of reorganizations internally. And this is really something that we decided in a couple of weeks in January. Because we just like, how can we ignore this?

I mean, it sounds, it seems very clear to us now that the world at large really wants a evolution of SQLite. Like the signals are very strong. So I think we just need to get behind it, right?

I mean, it sounds, it seems very clear to us now that the world at large really wants a evolution of SQLite. Like the signals are very strong. So I think we just need to get behind it, right?

Yes. And again, those two individuals in particular, they are now working for us. And we hired them already last year because, you know, they're great. And it's back and I was like, man, if Limbo has no other value, it's a great hiring tool for a company, right? Because it's attracting this kind of people. But those are people, of course, that we have direct access to.

Yes. And again, those two individuals in particular, they are now working for us. And we hired them already last year because, you know, they're great. And it's back and I was like, man, if Limbo has no other value, it's a great hiring tool for a company, right? Because it's attracting this kind of people. But those are people, of course, that we have direct access to.

So we talked to them extensively and all the others that came as well after. We had 32 contributors to Limbo the day we announced it as a torso experiment. As you know, Days later, we had already 60 and we're reaching 70 now. And again, a lot of that very core contributors doing a lot of great work. So Perry and Yusei, those two contributors are the first ones that we talked to.

So we talked to them extensively and all the others that came as well after. We had 32 contributors to Limbo the day we announced it as a torso experiment. As you know, Days later, we had already 60 and we're reaching 70 now. And again, a lot of that very core contributors doing a lot of great work. So Perry and Yusei, those two contributors are the first ones that we talked to.