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...
The Decomposable Monolith: Long Live the Monolith, Long Live Services!
This is an idea I’ve been kicking around for a little while, and I’m curious what others think about it. Everyone seems to be talking about microservices these days, but in most projects there is a transition point from monolith to...
Announcing Flux (formerly IFQL) - A New Query Language and Engine for InfluxDB
Today we’re releasing an early alpha of IFQL, or Influx Query Language. [This was later renamed Flux and is referred to as such below]. It’s an all-new query language and execution engine that works out of the box with InfluxDB 1.4....
InfluxDB Now Supports Prometheus Remote Read & Write Natively
Last month I attended PromCon, the annual Prometheus conference, in Munich. The conference had a mix of talks from users to implementers with topics ranging from how-to’s and case studies to details on the implementation of the Prometheus 2.0 storage engine....
Why Build a Time Series Data Platform?
Please note: This blog was originally published on DB-Engines and can be found here. In the middle of the big data hype cycle, before IoT was on the top of everyone’s buzz list, before Cloud Native was common lingo and before...
InfluxDB and Kapacitor: An Enhanced Data Model and Functional Query Language
The current data model in InfluxDB of measurements, tags, and fields is a major change we made near the end of 2014. The query language has largely been the same since the initial introduction of the project in November of 2013....
Metrics are Dead? Thoughts after Monitorama
Last week I attended Monitorama in Portland, Oregon. It’s an annual conference that focuses on… you guessed it, monitoring. Much of the content and sponsor focus is on DevOps Monitoring, but it’s not exclusively devoted to that. Many of the talks were applicable...