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Ryan Betts

Ryan Betts

Ryan has been building high performance infrastructure software for over twenty years. Prior to InfluxData, Ryan was the second employee and CTO at VoltDB. Before VoltDB, he spent time building SOA security and core networking products. Ryan holds a B.S. in Mathematics from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and an MBA from Babson College.

InfluxDB Internals 101 - Part Two

Query path: reading data from InfluxDB Indexing points for query A note on TSI (on disk indexes) Executing queries A note on IFQL DELETE and DROP - removing data from InfluxDB Updating points Introduction Part One of this series describes the...

InfluxDB 1.4 Now Available: InfluxQL Enhancements, Prometheus Read/Write, Better Compaction and a Lot More!

What’s New in InfluxDB 1.4 We are announcing the new version of InfluxDB 1.4 in Open Source. This release, unlike our previous releases, is not paired with a corresponding InfluxDB Enterprise release. All of the features and changes described here are available...

InfluxDB Internals 101 - Part One

Paul Dix led a series of internal InfluxDB 101 sessions to teach newcomers InfluxDB internals. I learned a lot from the talks and want to share the content with the community. I’m also writing this to organize my own understanding of...

Why I Joined InfluxData - Ryan Betts

Ever take a long break and think about changing careers or industries only to realize that you still absolutely love building high-performance databases? I did, and I’m thrilled to have recently joined InfluxData to continue that path. I took seven months...

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