Another post for the InfluxDB blog — on testing the storage engines within InfluxDB.
You can check it out here.
Monthly Archives: October 2015
Building a distributed key-value store using Raft
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 built hraftd.
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Coding like it’s 1999
“Run into an obstacle in what you’re working on? Hmm, I wonder what’s new online. Better check.”
If you haven’t already, you should start reading Paul Graham’s essays. In one on philosophy, Graham believes that many of the answers provided by philosophy are useless because “…of how little effect they have”. By that standard another of his essays is of high utility because it has affected the way I program. John Stuart Mill would be pleased.