AWS Intends for Their New Project to be an Elasticsearch Fork
Yesterday Amazon (AWS) unveiled Open Distro for Elasticsearch in a blog post along with its own companion site. In another blog post titled Keeping Open Source Open they make an argument for the motivation behind the project and the desire to...
InfluxDB 2.0 Alpha Release and the Road Ahead
Today we’re releasing the first alpha build of InfluxDB 2.0. Our vision for 2.0 is to collapse the TICK Stack into one cohesive and consistent whole which combines the time series database, the UI and dashboarding tool, and the background processing...
InfluxDB Master Branch to Switch to 2.0 on Jan 11
This is a short update to the InfluxDB community to announce that the master branch of InfluxDB will be switched over to the alpha version of 2.0 on Friday, January 11th. While the final alpha release will have a migration path...
Copyleft and community licenses are not without merit, but they are a dead end
Last Friday Confluent announced that they would be changing the license on some portions of their platform from Apache2 to The Confluent Community License. This comes on the heels of AWS’ recent launch at Re:Invent 2018 of a managed Kafka service....
Rust can be difficult to learn and frustrating, but it's also the most exciting thing in software development in a long time
I recently decided to put serious effort into learning the Rust programming language. I saw it coming up frequently in interesting projects (e.g. ripgrep) and kept hearing good things about it. My hesitation to picking up Rust since its 1.0 release...
Learning Flux (#fluxlang) is About As Difficult As Learning an API
Flux (#fluxlang) is the new data scripting language that we’re creating to make querying and analyzing time series and other kinds of data quick and easy. Flux will be able to work with data from InfluxDB, Prometheus, relational databases, CSV files,...
It's Time for the Open Source Community to Get Real
Like many open source developers, I’ve been reading the commentary around Redis Common Clause Licensing with great interest (HN thread). The gist of it is that work on certain enterprise modules for Redis that are developed by RedisLabs will be licensed...
Why We're Building Flux, a New Data Scripting and Query Language
Last month I gave a talk at InfluxDays London about Flux (#fluxlang), the new query and scripting language we’re building for InfluxDB 2.0. One of the more common questions I get when I talk about Flux is why? Why would you...
Will Kubernetes Collapse Under the Weight of Its Complexity?
Thoughts About the Importance of Serving Application Developers A few weeks ago, I attended and spoke at KubeCon EU. It was a massive event attended by around 4,700 people. I was reminded of the OpenStack summit in Paris in November 2014....
Flux (formerly IFQL) and the Future of InfluxData
With the big news coming out today about our Series C financing, I thought I should take some time to talk about what the future of InfluxData platform and InfluxDB holds. For our CEO Evan Kaplan’s perspective see here. To understand...