Another post for the InfluxDB blog — on testing the storage engines within InfluxDB.
You can check it out here.
Another post for the InfluxDB blog — on testing the storage engines within InfluxDB.
You can check it out here.
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.
Continue reading Building a distributed key-value store using Raft
“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.
I’ve written my first post for the InfluxDB blog. In it I discuss the new statistics and monitoring system built into InfluxDB, starting with the 0.9.4 release. Functionality like this is critical when it comes to running a distributed database like InfluxDB.
You can check it out here.
It’s been 418 days since my first Github commit of Go code. In that time I’ve written a Syslog-to-Kafka producer, a Raft-based distributed SQLite database, a near real-time log search system, and become a core developer of InfluxDB.
This past week I attended Gophercon 2015, in Denver, CO. It was also a chance to get together with the rest of the InfluxDB team. And because the Go community is still relatively young and small, it was a great chance to meet, in person, some of the best people working with Go today.
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.
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.
Continue reading Increasing bleve indexing performance with sharding
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.
Real-time — or near real-time — data pipelines are all the rage these days. I’ve built one myself, and they are becoming key components of many SaaS platforms. SaaS Analytics, Operations, and Business Intelligence systems often involve moving large amounts of data, received over the public Internet, into complex backend systems. And managing the incoming flow of data to these pipelines is key.