There is a popular image out there, among the general public, that small startups — particularly small software startups — are a hotbed of technical innovation, constantly creating new technology. But is it true?
Continue reading Where is technical innovation actually happening?
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.
When you’d like to contribute to an open-source project it can be difficult to know where to start. Check out my latest post for the InfluxDB blog, explaining how we on the Core team have curated a set of issues, hopefully making it easy for potential contributors to start.
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
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.
