Changelog Master Feed TIME to get SERIESous about databases (Ship It! #125)
Oct 11, 2024
In this engaging discussion, Lili Cosic, a Senior Software Engineer at InfluxData, shares her insights on the evolution of InfluxDB, including its transition to Rust. Adam Jacob, CEO of System Initiative, introduces innovative automation tools for DevOps, while Dave Rosenthal of Sentry emphasizes the importance of error monitoring. Kyle Spirin talks about the evolution of Bitwarden and the critical need for secrets management in open-source. The group also addresses the challenges of burnout in tech and the dynamics of open-source communities.
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InfluxDB for Licensing
- Justin Garrison's first InfluxDB use case involved a 4TB SQL database used for software licensing.
- Migrating to InfluxDB shrunk the data to under 4GB and enabled instant queries.
Telegraph Outage
- Justin Garrison caused an outage by using Telegraph to collect metrics.
- The outage stemmed from frequent calls to a MS SQL database, overloading it.
SQL Scalability Limits
- SQL databases become unwieldy beyond a certain size, necessitating alternative solutions or expert data architecture.
- This limitation often drives the adoption of specialized databases.