README
homer eleven
100% Opensource Telecom Observability since 2011
homer is the all-in-one HEP capture and API server monolith powering Homer 11.x data lake
Features
- All-in-One Application (Writer, Reader, Coordinator, Compactor, API)
- Modern Codebase in golang for X64/ARM64 on Linux/MacOS
- Powered by DuckDB 1.5 and Apache Arrow/IPC/Parquet
- Datalake design based on DuckLake Catalog and Local/Object Storage
- End-to-End Columnar OTLP Design w/ on-demand query execution
- Linear Scaling to query over shared Object Storage catalog/pool
- Flexible Schema support for growing problems and protocols
- Backwards compatible with all HEPv3 Agents
- Easy to maintain, operate and scale (down to zero!)
- Cloud Native Design for K8s and standard deployments
- Built-In User Interface for Humans
- MCP support and LLM/Agent friendly design (steal our boring jobs)
Architecture
Homer uses a modular architecture with four main components: