rqlite provides robust replication for SQLite databases using the Raft consensus protocol. Coded in Go it ensures that all changes made to the leader SQLite database are replicated to all other nodes in the cluster, providing fault-tolerance and reliability.
It’s been 18 months since development of rqlite first started and it’s time for version 2.
Continue reading rqlite – replicated SQLite with new Raft consensus and API
I’ve started replacing go-raft within rqlite with the implementation from Hashicorp. go-raft is no longer maintained, and I’ve good experience with the Hashicorp code, due to my work with InfluxDB and hraftd.
I’m also going to change the API, so it’s more useful. The existing implementation and API has been tagged as v1.0, so it’s still available.
You can follow the work on this branch, and I hope to merge it to master in the near future.
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 Ekanite, check out this series of posts.
“Bad money drives out good.”
When is the last time you spoke with your fellow developer? I mean actually spoke? Or was it just over Slack?
I like really Slack, Flowdock, Hipchat and the like. I couldn’t do my job without them. But as with Gresham’s law, bad communication is driving out good.
Continue reading Gresham’s law and Slack
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 since. But today I received a report that it no longer built, so I spent some time porting the code to the latest Shopify Sarama framework.
It was amusing to see how naive much of my early Go code was.
While running services is hard, it’s also fun. It confronts you with a whole set of engineering challenges because you’re building — and running — large scale systems.
So after 18 great months working on the InfluxDB source, I’m returning to Services and have started a new role with Percolate, as Director of Engineering on their Data Platform team.
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, a system for indexing log data, and making that data available for search in near-real-time. Is this final post let’s see Ekanite in action.
Continue reading Designing a search system for log data — part 3
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 requirements for a system that indexed log data, and makes that data available for search, all in near-real-time. Satisfying these requirements involves making trade-offs, and sometimes there are no easy answers.
Continue reading Designing a search system for log data — part 2
