Quickwit Acquired by Datadog: A Multi-Petabyte Search Engine's Cross-Continental Journey

Quickwit, a multi-petabyte scale open-source search engine built by three engineers over four years across three continents, has been acquired by Datadog. This post details Quickwit's journey from an idea conceived in a Parisian gyoza restaurant to its acquisition. Overcoming challenges of cross-border collaboration, they built a highly efficient and manageable search engine using Rust, partnering with companies like Binance and Mezmo to achieve success. The acquisition marks a new chapter for Quickwit, which will continue as an open-source project under the Apache License 2.0, bringing new features.