Raj Dutt, co-founder and CEO of raintank, Inc., discusses the company's commitment to reviving and supporting Graphite, a time series database originally developed by Chris Davis. Despite its age and some limitations, Graphite remains admired for its powerful query capabilities and open-source nature. However, concerns about its health and progress have surfaced, prompting raintank to collaborate with the Grafana community to rejuvenate the project. Efforts include improving the existing code base, launching a new website, offering enterprise support, and organizing community events. Jason Dixon, known for his dedication to Graphite, has joined raintank to focus on these initiatives. Additionally, raintank plans to introduce a hosted Graphite-compatible service and enhance performance by potentially rewriting parts of its API in Go. The company aims to ease the installation, tuning, and scaling challenges associated with large Graphite clusters and aligns these efforts with its mission to democratize metrics, emphasizing the need for community involvement to sustain Graphite's future.