Software engineering, distributed systems, databases, and the teams that build them
Software engineering, distributed systems, databases, and the teams that build them
Did you know that SQLite contains a full text search engine? The SQLite FTS4 and FTS5 Extensions allow you to perform full-text searches on documents loaded into SQLite. And since rqlite uses SQLite as its database engine, rqlite makes it…
I recently co-authored a blog post for the Google Cloud Platform Blog, along with my colleague Keith Chen. In the blog post we spoke about our latest features, which help organizations builds their own multi-tenant log management features on Cloud…
Sit down with any developer today, even those at pretty new software companies, and you’ll see them doing something that programmers have been doing for years — you’ll see them tailing log files. But why? Why are we still tailing…
I recently took part in the GCP Podcast, along with my colleague Reed Taylor. On the podcast we spoke about Cloud Logging, which is GCP‘s centralized Logging product, and has released lots of new features to help customers meet their…
If you work in the logging, monitoring — or even Observability — space long enough, you eventually end up on team that tries to build a system that handles both logs and time series in a high-performant and cost-efficient manner.…
I recently took part in the GCP Podcast, along with my colleague Oscar Guerrero. On the podcast we spoke about Audit Logging, which is a critical security feature of GCP. Be sure to check out the podcast episode.
This is a post following up on my Monitorama Baltimore 2019 talk. Logging and Monitoring systems — Observability Systems, if you prefer — often seem to struggle to meet the needs of their users.
It was great to speak at devopsdays in Galway. I really enjoyed bringing my recent Monitorama 2019 talk to my home town. A video of the talk has now been posted.
I will be joining my colleague from Google, Nathen Harvey, to speak in Galway at devopsdays on November 18th and 19th. I’m really looking forward to returning to my home town, and bringing my Monitorama Baltimore 2019 talk to the…
Monitorama Baltimore 2019 was a great experience, and I really enjoyed the opportunity to speak. I spoke about why Observability and Monitoring sytems struggle to meet their goals, and why they are so hard to build. The slides and video…
A new version of Ekanite, the syslog server with built-in search, has been released. v1.3.0 includes some bug fixes, including to shard management. It also moves Ekanite to Go 1.9. You can download v1.3.0 from the GitHub releases page.
A new version of Ekanite, the syslog server with built-in search, has been released. v1.2.3 includes a fix to the diagnostic output. You can download v1.2.3 from the GitHub releases page.
A new version of Ekanite, the syslog server with built-in search, has been released. v1.2.1 includes a very important bug fix, for an issue that affected TCP operation. You can download v1.2.1 from the GitHub releases page.
A new version of Ekanite, the syslog server with built-in search, has been released. v1.2.0 includes some minor fixes and improvements. You can download v1.2.0 from the GitHub releases page.
A new version of Ekanite, the syslog server with built-in search, has been released. v1.1.0 includes an important bug fix related to TCP connection handling, as well as some other minor fixes and improvements. You can download v1.1.0 from the…
Ekanite is an open-source Syslog server with built in log search. Thanks to some nice work by Fabian Zaremba, Ekanite now supports searching your logs via a browser. If you’d like to understand more about the design and development of…
It’s been 18 months since the first commit to my first significant Go project — syslog-gollector. After an initial burst of activity to create a functional Syslog Collector that streamed to Apache Kafka, the source code hadn’t been updated much…
This is the last part of a 3-part series “Designing and building a search system for log data”. Be sure to check out part 1 and part 2. In the last post we examined the design and implementation of Ekanite,…
This is the second part of a 3-part series “Designing and building a search system for log data”. Be sure to check out part 1. Part 3 follows this post. In the previous post I outlined some of the high-level…
This is the first part of a 3-part series “Designing and building a search system for log data”. Part 2 is here, and part 3 is here. For the past few years, I’ve been building indexing and search systems, for…
I’ve started coding in Go (golang), and I received some advice recently from Robert Griesemer, whom I was fortunate enough to sit beside at a recent Go Meetup. To learn Go, Robert suggested that I code a solution in Go…
AWS have posted the video online of Jim Nisbet’s and my talk at AWS:reinvent 2013. In it, Jim and I describe the system we built at Loggly, which uses Apache Kafka, Twitter Storm, and elasticseach, to build a high-performance log…
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…
After 14 months of hard work, the next generation of Loggly has been released. It’s been a great time to be part of the Software Infrastructure team at Loggly and we have put together a superb log aggregation & real-time…
I recently wrote my first post for the Loggly blog. It illustrates why host machines are often the worst place to store the logs those machines are generating. You can check it out here.