Software engineering, distributed systems, databases, and the teams that build them
Software engineering, distributed systems, databases, and the teams that build them
There is a popular image out there, among the general public, that small startups — particularly small software startups — are a hotbed of technical innovation, constantly creating new technology. But is it true?
My old colleagues at InfluxData have released InfluxDB 1.0. Congratulations to them all on this great milestone. Being involved with the development of InfluxDB was a great experience, and I’m sure the database will go from strength to strength.
I recently presented at the InfluxDB San Francisco Meetup, on InfluxDB and the Raft consensus protocol. My talk was about the fundamental problems of distributed systems, and how InfluxDB uses Raft to solve these issues.
When you’d like to contribute to an open-source project it can be difficult to know where to start. Check out my latest post for the InfluxDB blog, explaining how we on the Core team have curated a set of issues,…
Another post for the InfluxDB blog — on testing the storage engines within InfluxDB. You can check it out here.
Hashicorp provide a nice implementation of the Raft consensus protocol, and it’s at the heart of InfluxDB (amongst other systems). I wanted to experiment with a simple system built using this particular Raft implementation, so was inspired by raftd to…
I always use the names of economists for my machines’ hostnames. keynes, friedman, marx, fisher, ricardo. So every so often the strange economics of open-source software hits me.
I’ve written my first post for the InfluxDB blog. In it I discuss the new statistics and monitoring system built into InfluxDB, starting with the 0.9.4 release. Functionality like this is critical when it comes to running a distributed database…
It’s been 418 days since my first Github commit of Go code. In that time I’ve written a Syslog-to-Kafka producer, a Raft-based distributed SQLite database, a near real-time log search system, and become a core developer of InfluxDB.
This past week I attended Gophercon 2015, in Denver, CO. It was also a chance to get together with the rest of the InfluxDB team. And because the Go community is still relatively young and small, it was a great…
The first version of the 0.9.0 series of InfluxDB has been released. It’s alpha-quality software but all of us on the InfluxDB team are very excited to see the software reach this stage. You can read more about the release…
Recently at InfluxDB we discussed how code reviews fit in during the various stages of development. It’s great to see the team reach consensus about how we should develop software. It made me think more deeply about why I remain…
Tomorrow I join the team at InfluxDB, something I’m really excited about. I’m really looking forward to coding in Go full-time — it’s a language with real promise, a nice clean tool chain, and a very active community.
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…