Paul Dix

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Apr 2, 2015
Insight
Building analytics apps in 2015 resembles web development in 1998
“Building an application with an analytics component today is like building a web application in 1998. You spend months and millions of dollars building infrastructure before you get to the actual thing you want to build that's driving user value, right?”
Paul Dix Apr 2, 2015 ▶ 7:10 Paul Dix, InfluxDB // Open-Source Time Series Database // Data Driven NYC (FirstMark Capital)
Apr 2, 2015 positive
Assertion Supported
Dix: InfluxDB pairs a time series engine with an in-memory index
“So the InfluxDB is actually, it's kind of like two databases in one. So the time, there's the time series database, and that's useful for storing both regular and irregular time series. Regular is collected on fixed intervals, like once every 10 seconds. Irreg…”
Paul Dix Apr 2, 2015 ▶ 11:47 Paul Dix, InfluxDB // Open-Source Time Series Database // Data Driven NYC (FirstMark Capital)
Apr 2, 2015
Disclosure
Dix built time series databases on Cassandra twice before InfluxDB
“I've actually built a quote unquote time series database on top of Cassandra on two separate occasions. One for a fintech company and another for a metrics SAS developer monitoring thing.”
Paul Dix Apr 2, 2015 ▶ 3:38 Paul Dix, InfluxDB // Open-Source Time Series Database // Data Driven NYC (FirstMark Capital)
Jun 12, 2019
Disclosure
Flux combines a query optimizer, VM, and Turing-complete scripting language
“Flux is basically a new language that we're creating for two dot O. It's a combination of a bunch of things. It's basically a query planner, it's a query optimizer, but it's also a Turing complete scripting language, which includes a virtual machine, And a que…”
Paul Dix Jun 12, 2019 ▶ 15:14 What's Next for Open-Source Time Series Data? // Paul Dix, Influx Data (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
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