It’s 2017, and that means I’ve been in various engineering management and technical lead roles for about 6 years. That’s long enough to learn something about management, but short enough to remember clearly all the mistakes I made early on.
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Ekanite 1.2.0 released
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.
Building a snap for rqlite
I’ve started experimenting with one of the newest packaging systems — Canonical’s Snap format.
I learned about Snap from Mark Shuttleworth when he let me know that he had created a rqlite Snap. It seems pretty clean and straightforward so far — I’ve already started working on my first snap for rqlite, and plan to publish a version as a Ubuntu app.
rqlite v3.8.0 released
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source distributed relational database, with SQLite as its storage engine. v3.8.0 is now out. This release includes some minor enhancements and bug fixes.
You can download the release from GitHub.
Stop asking “how much data do you have?”
In every field there is a question that, while it sounds interesting, betrays a naiveté and lack of sophistication.
In my field — SaaS and data platforms — it’s how much data do you have?
Some of my favourite programming books
I was recently asked by some colleagues about my favourite books on programming. And not just books on coding, but on improving their understanding of successful teams.
Load SQLite dump files into rqlite v3.7.0
rqlite is a lightweight distributed relational database, with SQLite as its storage engine. With release v3.7.0 you can load SQLite dump files directly into rqlite. This makes restoring from a backup, or migrating an existing SQLite database to rqlite much easier.
You can download the release from GitHub.
Elasticsearch Meetup at Percolate
Last night Percolate hosted the San Francisco Elasticsearch Meetup.
I acted as host, and it was a great night, with excellent speakers and presentations.
Ekanite at the San Francisco Go Meetup
I gave a presentation on Ekanite — the syslog server with built-in search — tonight at the San Francisco Go Meetup. It was an enjoyable evening, and I had a chance to discuss why I built Ekanite, how it works, and where it might go in the future.
rqlite v3.6.0 released
rqlite is an open-source distributed relational database, with SQLite as its storage engine. v3.6.0 is out. With this release a new node can now join an existing cluster though any node of that cluster, not just through the leader node.
You can download the release from GitHub.
rqlite now supported on Microsoft Windows
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source distributed relational database, with SQLite as its storage engine. Thanks to the power of the Go tool chain, it is compatible with Microsoft Windows without any extra effort.
To ensure that it remains compatible with Windows, I have enabled CI for Windows using AppVeyor. After some help from the open-source community, it’s up and running now.
InfluxDB 1.0 released
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.
rqlite v3.5.0 released
rqlite is an open-source distributed relational database, with SQLite as its storage engine. v3.5.0 is out. This release supports important control of foreign key constraints, in the underlying SQLite database.
You can download the release from GitHub.
rqlite v3.4.1released
rqlite is an open-source distributed relational database, with SQLite as its storage engine. v3.4.1 is out. This release includes some minor fixes as well as source code improvements (linting).
You can download the release from GitHub.
Ekanite v1.1.0 released
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 GitHub releases page.
The evolution of the rqlite source code
rqlite is an open-source distributed relational database, with SQLite as its storage engine.
Check out this cool video, showing the evolution of the source code.
rqlite v3.4.0 released
rqlite is an open-source distributed relational database, with SQLite as its storage engine. v3.4.0 is out, which includes a minor change to the HTTP responses.
You can download the release from GitHub.
Be a Conviction Engineer
I’m a conviction engineer.
To me it’s the only way to be an effective engineer, software developer, and technical leader. You’ve simply got to truly believe in the value of what you do, and you’ve got to believe in doing it the right way.
rqlite v3.3.0 released
rqlite is an open-source distributed relational database, with SQLite as its storage engine. v3.3.0 has been released and includes new functionality to control the Raft consensus subsystem, along with improvements to the CLI.
You can download the release from GitHub.
rqlite v3.2.1 released
rqlite is an open-source distributed relational database, with SQLite as its storage engine. v3.2.1 has been released and includes new functionality for cluster management, along with new documentation on running clusters. v3.2.0 also includes some bug fixes.
You can download the release from GitHub.