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Rewriting InfluxDB: Perspectives From InfluxData's Staff Engineers

Veteran developers and staff engineers at InfluxData, Nga Tran and Andrew Lamb, discuss what it was like to rewrite InfluxDB for version 3.0. Several factors prevent companies, especially startups, from rewriting their products. But what does the process look like once a company embarks on a rewrite? And how do they balance innovation with user feedback?

Real World Software Development: Finding, Reproducing, and Fixing Bugs

Veteran developers and staff engineers at InfluxData, Nga Tran and Andrew Lamb, have an honest conversation about dealing with software bugs. Bugs can be frustrating, but they can also be thrilling. They are a sign that people are actually using your software - and that's a good thing! Andrew and Nga talk through a recent bug their team encountered, how they approached resolving the issue, and what considerations go into building a permanent fix.

Why we used open source Apache projects to build InfluxDB 3.0

To the unfamiliar, building with open source tools may seem like the kind of chaos that leads to Boaty McBoatface-like decisions. Andrew Lamb, staff engineer at InfluxData and PMC for the Apache DataFusion project, provides insight from a developer and a PMC perspective about what it's like to build with, and manage a major open source project. InfluxData recently rebuilt its core database using Apache projects: Flight, DataFusion, Arrow, and Parquet, dubbed the FDAP stack.

How the FDAP stack drives innovation with open source Apache projects

Using open source projects from the Apache foundation to build low-level database software drives innovation. Andrew Lamb, Staff Engineer at InfluxData and PMC for the Apache DataFusion project, discusses the components of the FDAP stack - Flight, Arrow, DataFusion, and Parquet, explaining how building with these tools helps companies focus on innovation instead of spending dev cycles reinventing the wheel.

AWS + InfluxData Fireside Chat: Unleash the Full Potential of Your Time Series Data

Watch this recent TechCrunch session where two time series data industry leaders–InfluxData Founder and CTO, Paul Dix, and AWS General Manager for Amazon Timestream and Amazon Neptune, Brad Bebee–join moderator Andrew Lamb, Staff Engineer at InfluxData, to discuss.

Expanding the AWS partnership Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB

InfluxData CEO, Evan Kaplan, discusses the company's expanded partnership with AWS. Open source InfluxDB is now available as a managed service on AWS. Discover what this means for InfluxDB and AWS users, and what additional offerings are in the works to help uers improve their Time to Awesome.