pauldix

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by pauldix 6y ago
We use Arrow under the hood in our new scripting and query language, Flux. We're looking into adding Flight RPC to InfluxDB and there are some new internal projects that I'm looking at to use Parquet + Flight + Arrow all the way t
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Apache Arrow, Parquet, Flight and their ecosystem are a game changer for OLAP(influxdata.com)
3 points by pauldix 6y ago|2 comments
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by pauldix 7y ago
Sad to see this. I'm using Actix in a new project and have been watching the project for a while. Guess I'll be refactoring to use Hyper. If I were farther along I'd probably try to take ownership, but it doesn't make se
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InfluxDB Cloud 2.0 Launches as a Serverless Platform for Time Series Data(influxdata.com)
1 points by pauldix 7y ago|0 comments
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by pauldix 7y ago
I don't think of YC as an accelerator, but maybe that's where things are headed since we (InfluxDB) went through in W13? Originally it was enough to have a few people, an idea, and a prototype. I think that was the model for the m
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by pauldix 7y ago
Totally agree, that's where my mind went to immediately. Features and/or proposals on design in larger projects.
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by pauldix 7y ago
This actually looks like it could be applied very effectively to open source communities on a single project when setting priorities for future feature development. For example, you have 20 features in the backlog and you're going into
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Google Cloud challenges AWS with new open-source integrations(techcrunch.com)
96 points by pauldix 8y ago|23 comments
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by pauldix 8y ago
I don't think open core is being called into question. By that rationale, anything that is closed source that gets too popular is also called into question. Nothing is stopping AWS or anyone else from copying your API, features or anyt
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by pauldix 8y ago
This is a really great response and I'm curious how AWS will respond. It's particularly damning because AWS was arguing from a position of moral authority on the move, which I think was disingenuous. They wanted to create a fork a
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by pauldix 8y ago
I view that as a significant negative impact to OSS. I have a strong preference for liberal licenses like MIT or Apache 2.0. Infectious licenses like copy-left put restrictions on it that make it less appealing as open source. I wrote a bit
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by pauldix 8y ago
Discussion from just over a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16487440 They took the closed XPack code and put it into the open source Elastic repo, but under a commercial license. It muddied the waters for any
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by pauldix 8y ago
Adding another thought to this, which is that I doubt the code behind this is a direct response to Elastic's recent license changes. This is a ton of work and I'm guessing AWS has been working on the code side of this since well b
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by pauldix 8y ago
Oh I assumed that someone would do it. I just didn't expect it to be AWS. Elastic is popular enough and the core open source license permissive enough that I expected some sort of fork eventually. The license of the original project is
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by pauldix 8y ago
This is a very surprising move from AWS. In the past they haven't seemed to be willing to contribute to the OSS that they pick up and host. Even though they claim they'll contribute changes upstream, I doubt that Elastic would acc
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by pauldix 8y ago
Flux is almost a subset of Javascript. There are only two exceptions. Our pipe forward syntax, which I've seen proposed for Javascript, but who knows if that's going to happen. And the other is our named parameters with optional d
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by pauldix 8y ago
Our current cloud offering has much smaller initial pricing. Our Cloud 2.0 offering that we'll launch later this year will have usage based pricing as well as a free tier.
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by pauldix 8y ago
Lua was certainly an option and it's one I was even considering as an embedded scripting language back in the fall of 2014. I gave a talk in London where I asked for a show of hands about Lua vs. Javascript as the choice and the majori
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by pauldix 8y ago
There isn't a specific feature of Flux that requires a new language, although part of the language is a query planner and optimizer that is tied to certain functions in it. Technically any Turing complete language is equivalent, but in
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by pauldix 8y ago
Absolutely. We won't address that in the initial release of 2.0, but there will be ways to get it done. The eventual solution will probably revolve around using the tasks system to downsample into buckets of different retention. Then u
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by pauldix 8y ago
InfluxDB 1.x was definitely not designed for that. With Flux in InfluxDB 2.0 you will be able to do things like store reference data in other places and join that with time series data in InfluxDB at query time. You can also sort, group and
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by pauldix 8y ago
Those are indeed blockers for a full 2.0 release. There is backup and restore in the 1.7 release, but it's not nearly as powerful as it needs to be. We aim to correct that before any full GA release of 2.0.
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by pauldix 8y ago
This release of 2.0 is not a commercial offering. It's completely free and open source under an MIT license without restrictions of any kind. For example, you could use it as the basis of your own commercial offering or use code from i
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by pauldix 8y ago
Thanks for the TICKscript feedback. That’s all stuff that we want to have addressed in Flux. This alpha release doesn’t have that yet but printf, a test runner built into the influx CLI, and test inputs and outputs are all on the near term
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by pauldix 8y ago
Nope, our goal is to take it forward with Flux and having it being integrated into the main API. Flux functionality will be a superset of what’s possible in TICKscript
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by pauldix 8y ago
Right now we’re prioritizing work on the single open source server and our cloud service, which has a very different design. Flux will be able to query multiple servers and combine their results (in OSS), but that would be a building block
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by pauldix 8y ago
For now we take writes in the 1.x line protocol so it’s still measurement, tags, and field. However, Flux doesn’t really make that a requirement. So in the future we plan on having a way to write series in without requiring a field or even
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by pauldix 8y ago
InfluxDB creator here, happy to answer questions and add more commentary here!
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InfluxDB 2.0 Alpha and the Road Ahead(influxdata.com)
119 points by pauldix 8y ago|54 comments
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by pauldix 8y ago
I was a few miles away in Williamsburg walking outside when this happened. No line of sight to source because of the buildings. Just saw the clouds & sky turn orange and then bright blue and then it started flickering. Seemed to go on f

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