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 on this blog post.
Software development: it’s got nothing to do with computers
Well, almost nothing.
Obviously it’s got something to do with computers since developers spend so much of their time in front of one. But software development is actually all about people. And successful software development even more so.
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Reviewing Implementing Cloud Design Patterns for AWS
Packt Publishing have a released a new book, Implementing Cloud Design Patterns for AWS, for which I acted as an official technical reviewer.
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Increasing bleve indexing performance with sharding
Search is everywhere. Once you’ve built search systems, you see its potential application in many places. So when I came across bleve, an open-source search library written in Go, I was interested in learning more about its feature set and its indexing performance. And I could see immediately one might be able to shard it to improve performance.
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Reviewing Elasticsearch Cookbook
I recently acted as one of the official technical reviewers for ElasticSearch Cookbook – Second Edition by Alberto Paro. Published by Packt Publishing, the book contains a large number of “recipes” for elasticsearch.
Code reviews still rule
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 a big believer in the code review process.
History of Software Engineering
I recently came across a talk on YouTube titled History of Software Engineering, given by Paolo Perrotta. Normally I find online videos to have a low information-to-time ratio, but this one was excellent. It’s not too long, with plenty of humour, and makes many serious points that resonated with me.
Book Review: Cassandra High Availability
Packt recently asked me to review their new publication Cassandra High Availability, written by Robbie Strickland.
I’ve worked with Cassandra in the past — early designs of Loggly‘s 2nd generation Log analytics platform used Cassandra as its authoritative store for log data, but we ended up pulling it and using elasticsearch as both the store and search engine.
Software Development for Infrastructure
Bjarne Stroustrup
has another very interesting paper on his website. Titled Software Development for Infrastructure, it discusses some key ideas for building software that has “…more stringent correctness, reliability, efficiency, and maintainability requirements than non-essential applications.” It is not a long paper, but offers useful observations and guidelines for building such software systems.
Eudyptula Challenge
The Eudyptula Challenge is a series of programming tasks, with the goal of getting one up-to-speed on Linux kernel programming. When I first heard about it, it immediately intrigued me. I’ve written a few production Linux kernel modules in my time — mostly device drivers — so I started the challenge today.