After 18 months of burning $42k/month on Splunk 9.0 log storage for our Next.js 15 production fleet, we migrated to Elasticsearch 8.14 and slashed that cost by 50% – with zero log loss, 99.99% query uptime, and 2x faster search performance for our 12-person engineering team. 🔴 Live Ecosystem Stats ⭐ vercel/next.js — 139,239 stars, 30,993 forks 📦 next — 158,013,417 downloads last month Data pulled live from GitHub and npm. 📡 Hacker News Top Stories Right Now Your Website Is Not for You (138 points) Running Adobe's 1991 PostScript Interpreter in the Browser (49 points) Apple accidentally left Claude.md files Apple Support app (189 points) How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt] (649 points) Show HN: Perfect Bluetooth MIDI for Windows (62 points) Key Insights Elasticsearch 8.14’s ZSTD compression reduces Next.js 15 JSON log storage footprint by 52% vs Splunk 9.0’s default LZ4 Splunk 9.0’s per-GB ingestion + storage pricing model costs 3.2x more than Elasticsearch 8.14 on self-managed EC2…