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Paul Dix: Nobody will ever make the Lisp programming language popular
“Lisp, we're not going to do because Paul Graham and Rich Hickey couldn't make Lisp popular, and neither will we. Nobody will.”
Flux turns InfluxDB into a serverless execution platform for time series
“It essentially turns the database into a serverless execution platform for time series data. The idea is you can define any sort of custom logic that you want, inject it into the database, and it will periodically run that logic over the data that you're writi…”
Paul Dix: Telegraf is likely on tens to hundreds of millions of servers
“This project actually is our most popular open source project by far. We don't have any sort of tracking on it right now, but I would estimate that it's probably deployed on tens of millions of servers across the world, if not hundreds of millions at this poin…”
Dix: InfluxDB operates with zero external software dependencies
“It's an open source time series database with no external dependencies.”
No open-source projects focused on time-series databases in 2013
“So we looked at the open source time series space and found that nobody was really focused on it, and it seemed like A need that was emerging.”
Go's garbage collection makes InfluxDB unsuitable for sub-millisecond trading
“This isn't, this is written in Go, so, which is a garbage collected language, so worst case response time can be worse than what you would want in that kind of setup.”
An InfluxData customer deployed Telegraf to 45,000 servers in a single day
“Our, we've had customers, like, deploy it to 45,000 servers in a single day, so.”
HFT firms use InfluxDB and atomic clocks for sub-300ns drift
“There are high frequency trading firms that use it to track latencies in their network infrastructure, and they actually have, like, atomic clocks deployed in their data centers, so they guarantee less than 300 nanoseconds of clock drift Worldwide.”
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…”