Comment by leakycap
6 days ago
Did you consider confusion with the Arc browser and still go with the name, or were you calling this Arc first and decided to just stick with it?
6 days ago
Did you consider confusion with the Arc browser and still go with the name, or were you calling this Arc first and decided to just stick with it?
Hey, good question!
I didn’t really worry about confusion since this isn’t a browser, it’s a completely different animal.
The name actually came from “Ark”, as in something that stores and carries, but I decided to go with Arc to avoid sounding too biblical.
The deeper reason is that Arc isn’t just about ingestion; it’s designed to store data long-term for other databases like InfluxDB, Timescale, or Kafka using Parquet and S3-style backends that scale economically while still letting you query everything with SQL.
The browser is dead anyway
Didn't that browser get mothballed by its devs?