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There was an article published recently - not here, and not to be linked or referenced here directly - proposing that "nobody loves Graphite" anymore. A linkbait title if I've ever heard one. Many folks linked this article to me, almost certainly expecting me to respond in an uproar. And yet, what I find myself really disappointed over is the obvious misrepresentation of fact (as it pertains to Graphite's technical limits) and an almost malicious disregard for the enormous community that uses it and contributes back to its ongoing development.

It's almost as if they're trying to sell you something. Nah, that couldn't be it.

I readily concede that Graphite was not designed for the transient nature of the sort of bleeding-edge containerized, clustering systems that are becoming popular in conference talks and Hacker News (if not in actual use in production, but we'll forgive them this tiny oversight). Admittedly, it takes an expertly skilled engineer to craft a background job for the purpose of removing old cruft. It's not every SysAdmin that knows how to cron, after all.

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As I mentioned in the previous blog post, we're perilously close to shipping the next Graphite release. Although we typically avoid large, sweeping changes in the stable branch, the long development cycle leading up to this particular release means we have a number of big new features and performance improvements to announce.

Rather than assume everyone will read and understand the significance of all the changes in the 0.9.14 Release Notes, I felt it would be a good idea to touch on some of them here. This collection represents a small handful of highlights among the numerous changes from this release. The sustained level of interest and contributions from the community continue to astound me. I can't thank everyone enough for their continued support of the Graphite project.

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