Twenty years around technical teams. Now building the company and its products.

So I built Arc: an open, SQL-native time-series database that ingests through InfluxDB Line Protocol, writes standard Apache Parquet to storage you own, and queries recent and historical data together. No retention cliffs, no proprietary formats, no second system for cold data. It started as an aerospace telemetry problem and turned out to be useful anywhere machines don't stop.

Today it runs across roughly 1,390 production instances, and Basekick Labs is the company around it: the open core, an enterprise edition for clustering and support, and a managed offering for teams who'd rather not operate a database. I still write most of the interesting parts myself.

The same argument turned out to apply to source code, so I'm now building Basekick Git: pull requests, review, and CI coordination on top, with the repository objects and the runners staying in storage and on machines you control. Plain Git underneath, so revoking our access still leaves you a working repository. It's in early access while I build it in the open.

Founding turned out to be a second job I had no training for: pricing an open-source product, deciding which feature request is a roadmap and which is one loud customer, and learning to sell to engineers who can read my source code. I write about that side too, on the blog, because the technical decisions and the commercial ones keep turning out to be the same decision.

I'm based in Heredia, Costa Rica. If you're migrating off InfluxDB, fighting a retention policy you don't believe in, thinking about what happens when your code host goes away, or building something on your own and want to compare notes, ignacio[at]basekick[dot]net , or find me on LinkedIn.