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rqlite 7.16.0 – restore your system from S3

rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, utilizing SQLite as its storage engine. Version 7.16.0 has been released and now includes support for restoring your rqlite system automatically from AWS S3. With this in place you…

Adding automatic S3 backups to rqlite

rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, utilizing SQLite as its storage engine. Version 7.15.0 has been released and now includes support for automated backups to Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3. This enhancement offers increased data…

rqlite v3: Globally replicating SQLite

rqlite is an open-source distributed relational database, which uses SQLite as its storage engine. rqlite is written in Go and uses Raft to achieve consensus across a set of SQLite databases. It gracefully handles leader election, and can tolerate machine…

InfluxDB and Grafana HOWTO

This blog describes working with InfluxDB 0.8. InfluxDB 0.8 is no longer supported, and has been superseded by the 1.0 release. I recently came across InfluxDB — it’s a time-series database built on LevelDB. It’s designed to support horizontal as…

Speaking at AWS re:Invent 2013

This past week I had the opportunity to speak, with my colleague Jim Nisbet, at AWS re:Invent 2013. Titled “Unmeltable Infrastructure at Scale: Using Apache Kafka, Twitter Storm, and Elastic Search on AWS“, Jim and I described the architecture of…