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Andrew Lamb

After spending many years as C/C++ systems programmer (databases and compilers), and a stint working on Machine Learning startups (as one does), Andrew now works at InfluxData with Paul Dix and a talented team of engineers on InfluxDB IOx, a new engine for time series data.

Querying Parquet with Millisecond Latency

By Raphael Taylor-Davies, Andrew Lamb / Dec 07, 2022 / InfluxDB IOx, Community

We believe that querying data in Apache Parquet files directly can achieve similar or better storage efficiency and query performance than most specialized file formats. While it requires significant engineering effort, the benefits of Parquet’s open format and broad ecosystem support...

Rust Object Store Donation

By Andrew Lamb, Raphael Taylor-Davies / Aug 22, 2022 / Community, Developer

Today we are happy to officially announce that InfluxData has donated a generic object store implementation to the Apache Arrow project. Using this crate, the same code can easily interact with AWS S3, Azure Blob Storage, Google Cloud Storage, local files,...

Using Rustlang's Async Tokio Runtime for CPU-Bound Tasks

By Andrew Lamb / Feb 28, 2022 / Community, Developer

This article was originally published in The New Stack on January 14, 2022 and is being republished here with permission. Despite the term async and its association with asynchronous network I/O, this blog post argues that the Tokio runtime at the heart of...

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