Paul Dix
@pauldix.bsky.social
Cofounder & CTO InfluxData, makers of InfluxDB, the open source time series database. Founder of NYC Machine Learning Meetup. Former Ruby on Rails developer and enthusiast (still a fan).
Big stuff today: Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB now supports InfluxDB 3 Core and Enterprise! This continues our partnership with AWS to bring @InfluxDB to as many developers as possible. This is just the beginning, we have big updates coming over the next months: www.influxdata.com/blog/influxd...
InfluxDB 3 on Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB: Real-Time Performance, Now Fully Managed on AWS
InfluxDB 3 Core (open source) and InfluxDB 3 Enterprise are now available as fully-managed services on Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB, giving developers a direct path to deploy and scale real-time wor...
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October 16, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Big stuff today: Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB now supports InfluxDB 3 Core and Enterprise! This continues our partnership with AWS to bring @InfluxDB to as many developers as possible. This is just the beginning, we have big updates coming over the next months: www.influxdata.com/blog/influxd...
Today we released #InfluxDB 3.2 in open source Core and Enterprise. Retention policies are back, and, for Enterprise customers, per table retention policies have arrived! We've also reached GA for InfluxDB 3 Explorer, our all new UI for working with InfluxDB 3! www.influxdata.com/blog/influxd...
Today we released #InfluxDB 3.2 in open source Core and Enterprise. | Paul Dix
Today we released #InfluxDB 3.2 in open source Core and Enterprise. Retention policies are back, and for Enterprise customers, per table retention policies have arrived! We've also reached GA for ...
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June 30, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Today we released #InfluxDB 3.2 in open source Core and Enterprise. Retention policies are back, and, for Enterprise customers, per table retention policies have arrived! We've also reached GA for InfluxDB 3 Explorer, our all new UI for working with InfluxDB 3! www.influxdata.com/blog/influxd...
Keeping the #InfluxDB v3 train going, we're excited to announce the release of 3.1! Both Core & Enterprise add operations improvements, performance and other fixes. Enterprise adds expanded security controls and cache reloading. More details here: www.influxdata.com/blog/inside-...
What’s Inside InfluxDB 3.1: New Features for Security, Performance, and Visibility
InfluxDB 3.1 is now available for both Core and Enterprise editions, bringing significant improvements that make managing high-volume, high-velocity time series data even easier, faster, and more secu...
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May 29, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Keeping the #InfluxDB v3 train going, we're excited to announce the release of 3.1! Both Core & Enterprise add operations improvements, performance and other fixes. Enterprise adds expanded security controls and cache reloading. More details here: www.influxdata.com/blog/inside-...
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🚀 Introducing **Bauplan**
A serverless, code-native platform for building data and AI pipelines — directly on your object store. No clusters. No notebooks. No GUI based workflows.
Just Python + SQL + S3.
👉 www.bauplanlabs.com/blog/hello-b...
A serverless, code-native platform for building data and AI pipelines — directly on your object store. No clusters. No notebooks. No GUI based workflows.
Just Python + SQL + S3.
👉 www.bauplanlabs.com/blog/hello-b...
April 16, 2025 at 2:14 PM
🚀 Introducing **Bauplan**
A serverless, code-native platform for building data and AI pipelines — directly on your object store. No clusters. No notebooks. No GUI based workflows.
Just Python + SQL + S3.
👉 www.bauplanlabs.com/blog/hello-b...
A serverless, code-native platform for building data and AI pipelines — directly on your object store. No clusters. No notebooks. No GUI based workflows.
Just Python + SQL + S3.
👉 www.bauplanlabs.com/blog/hello-b...
Over 4 years in the making, #InfluxDB 3.0 Core & Enterprise are now GA! Headline features include "diskless" architecture using object storage, a SQL engine in addition to InfluxQL, infinite cardinality, and an embedded Python processing engine. Details here: www.influxdata.com/blog/influxd...
InfluxDB 3 Core & Enterprise GA: The Next Generation Time Series Platform for Developers is Here
InfluxDB 3 Core and InfluxDB 3 Enterprise are now generally available, deliverin new capabilities: infinite cardinality, support for keeping historical data on object storage and available for real-ti...
www.influxdata.com
April 15, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Over 4 years in the making, #InfluxDB 3.0 Core & Enterprise are now GA! Headline features include "diskless" architecture using object storage, a SQL engine in addition to InfluxQL, infinite cardinality, and an embedded Python processing engine. Details here: www.influxdata.com/blog/influxd...
Enjoyed reading this post on recreating Daft Punk's Something About Us. The description of the French Touch genre was particularly good. "Its distinct sound is the product of a generation raised on analog dreams of the digital future." Such a great line. thoughts-and-things.ghost.io/recreating-d...
Recreating Daft Punk's Something About Us
An in-depth, personal journey recreating Daft Punk’s “Something About Us” in Ableton Live 12—track by track. From synths to talkbox guitars, a nostalgic dive into French Touch culture, sound design, a...
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April 5, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Enjoyed reading this post on recreating Daft Punk's Something About Us. The description of the French Touch genre was particularly good. "Its distinct sound is the product of a generation raised on analog dreams of the digital future." Such a great line. thoughts-and-things.ghost.io/recreating-d...
I'll be at #GrafanaCON presenting on #InfluxDB 3 Core, the new open source release! 10 years since I presented at the very first one in NYC on the new storage engine we were building at the time (TSM for v1).
🚀🚀🚀 The #GrafanaCON 2025 agenda is here and it is PACKED! See the full agenda and plan your GrafanaCON experience: bit.ly/4iZL8gV
*Register by March 31, 2025 to save 30% on your ticket.
See you in Seattle! 👋
*Register by March 31, 2025 to save 30% on your ticket.
See you in Seattle! 👋
March 20, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I'll be at #GrafanaCON presenting on #InfluxDB 3 Core, the new open source release! 10 years since I presented at the very first one in NYC on the new storage engine we were building at the time (TSM for v1).
It's a big day @influxdb.com, we're announcing the beta of InfluxDB 3 Core and Enterprise! This means that APIs are now stable and in-place upgrades with all data from here to GA will be supported. More details here: www.influxdata.com/blog/influxd...
InfluxDB 3 Core and Enterprise Are Now in Beta
InfluxDB 3 Core, our new open source product licensed under MIT/Apache 2, and InfluxDB 3 Enterprise are now in beta. In this post, I’ll highlight what’s changed since alpha, what to expect from the be...
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March 17, 2025 at 4:04 PM
It's a big day @influxdb.com, we're announcing the beta of InfluxDB 3 Core and Enterprise! This means that APIs are now stable and in-place upgrades with all data from here to GA will be supported. More details here: www.influxdata.com/blog/influxd...
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If you're out on bail you should join us today because this is going to be an excellent talk. Jeff has worked on databases at Google since 2005 (including F1, Mesa, Dremel). Talk is based on their VLDB'24 paper: research.google/pubs/sql-has...
March 10, 2025 at 2:30 PM
If you're out on bail you should join us today because this is going to be an excellent talk. Jeff has worked on databases at Google since 2005 (including F1, Mesa, Dremel). Talk is based on their VLDB'24 paper: research.google/pubs/sql-has...
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Paul Dix @pauldix.bsky.social co-founder & CTO of InfluxData @influxdb.com gets real about InfluxDB 3.0, licensing, and the future of time series databases.
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created by @rawkode.dev @nimbinatus.bsky.social
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February 4, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Paul Dix @pauldix.bsky.social co-founder & CTO of InfluxData @influxdb.com gets real about InfluxDB 3.0, licensing, and the future of time series databases.
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created by @rawkode.dev @nimbinatus.bsky.social
After a couple weeks of feedback on the #InfluxDB 3 alpha, we're announcing InfluxDB 3 Enterprise free for at-home use and an update on InfluxDB 3 Core’s 72-hour limitation: www.influxdata.com/blog/influxd...
Announcing InfluxDB 3 Enterprise free for at-home use and an update on InfluxDB 3 Core’s 72-hour limitation
Announcing the alpha release of InfluxDB 3 Core and InfluxDB 3 Enterprise. InfluxDB 3 Core is a recent-data engine for time series and event data. InfluxDB 3 Enterprise adds historical query capabilit...
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January 27, 2025 at 7:17 PM
After a couple weeks of feedback on the #InfluxDB 3 alpha, we're announcing InfluxDB 3 Enterprise free for at-home use and an update on InfluxDB 3 Core’s 72-hour limitation: www.influxdata.com/blog/influxd...
I'm excited to announce that InfluxDB 3 Open Source Now in Public Alpha Under MIT/Apache 2 License: www.influxdata.com/blog/influxd...
We're also releasing an alpha of InfluxDB 3 Enterprise at the same time.
This builds on years of effort with Apache Arrow, DataFusion, and Parquet.
We're also releasing an alpha of InfluxDB 3 Enterprise at the same time.
This builds on years of effort with Apache Arrow, DataFusion, and Parquet.
InfluxDB 3 Open Source Now in Public Alpha Under MIT/Apache 2 License
Announcing the alpha release of InfluxDB 3 Core and InfluxDB 3 Enterprise. InfluxDB 3 Core is a recent-data engine for time series and event data. InfluxDB 3 Enterprise adds historical query capabilit...
www.influxdata.com
January 13, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I'm excited to announce that InfluxDB 3 Open Source Now in Public Alpha Under MIT/Apache 2 License: www.influxdata.com/blog/influxd...
We're also releasing an alpha of InfluxDB 3 Enterprise at the same time.
This builds on years of effort with Apache Arrow, DataFusion, and Parquet.
We're also releasing an alpha of InfluxDB 3 Enterprise at the same time.
This builds on years of effort with Apache Arrow, DataFusion, and Parquet.
Congrats to @andrewlamb1111.bsky.social and the DataFusion contributors on making DataFusion the fastest engine for querying Parquet data! datafusion.apache.org/blog/2024/11...
Apache DataFusion is now the fastest single node engine for querying Apache Parquet files
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November 23, 2024 at 12:10 AM
Congrats to @andrewlamb1111.bsky.social and the DataFusion contributors on making DataFusion the fastest engine for querying Parquet data! datafusion.apache.org/blog/2024/11...
Happy Nvidia earnings announcement day to all who celebrate
November 20, 2024 at 3:14 PM
Happy Nvidia earnings announcement day to all who celebrate
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My PVLDB paper announcement bot now supports Bluesky: @pvldb.bsky.social
I am letting it post papers from last issue (August 2024). It will then hit the new volume when it pops later this year.
You can also get RSS/Atom feeds:
db.cs.cmu.edu/files/rss/pv...
db.cs.cmu.edu/files/rss/pv...
I am letting it post papers from last issue (August 2024). It will then hit the new volume when it pops later this year.
You can also get RSS/Atom feeds:
db.cs.cmu.edu/files/rss/pv...
db.cs.cmu.edu/files/rss/pv...
November 18, 2024 at 3:00 AM
My PVLDB paper announcement bot now supports Bluesky: @pvldb.bsky.social
I am letting it post papers from last issue (August 2024). It will then hit the new volume when it pops later this year.
You can also get RSS/Atom feeds:
db.cs.cmu.edu/files/rss/pv...
db.cs.cmu.edu/files/rss/pv...
I am letting it post papers from last issue (August 2024). It will then hit the new volume when it pops later this year.
You can also get RSS/Atom feeds:
db.cs.cmu.edu/files/rss/pv...
db.cs.cmu.edu/files/rss/pv...
My CMU talk on using the #FDAP stack to build #InfluxDB 3.0 is up! It starts off with some intro to the problem space, but then gets into some of our database journey, how we use DataFusion, and a bit about the upcoming open source architecture: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGS4...
Building InfluxDB 3.0 with the FDAP Stack: Apache Flight, DataFusion, Arrow and Parquet (Paul Dix)
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November 16, 2024 at 7:04 PM
My CMU talk on using the #FDAP stack to build #InfluxDB 3.0 is up! It starts off with some intro to the problem space, but then gets into some of our database journey, how we use DataFusion, and a bit about the upcoming open source architecture: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGS4...
My CMU DB Building Blocks talk is today at 4:30 ET! I'll be talking about building #InfluxDB 3.0 with the FDAP stack. I'll also go into some of the details on our upcoming single server releases. It'll be recorded or you can watch it live, details here: db.cs.cmu.edu/events/build...
[Building Blocks] Building InfluxDB 3.0 with the FDAP Stack: Apache Flight, DataFusion, Arrow and Parquet (Paul Dix) - Carnegie Mellon Database Group
This talk is part of the Database Building Blocks Seminar Series. Zoom... Read More +
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November 11, 2024 at 3:28 PM
My CMU DB Building Blocks talk is today at 4:30 ET! I'll be talking about building #InfluxDB 3.0 with the FDAP stack. I'll also go into some of the details on our upcoming single server releases. It'll be recorded or you can watch it live, details here: db.cs.cmu.edu/events/build...
Working on my talk for the CMU DB Seminar series tomorrow. Thinking about what would be interesting for me to cover for the group. So now I'm watching one of the earlier talks in the series that I hadn't gotten to yet. Exon: A Built for Purpose Bioinformatics Database www.youtube.com/watch?v=fltZ...
Exon: A Built for Purpose Bioinformatics Database (Trent Hauck)
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November 10, 2024 at 6:29 PM
Working on my talk for the CMU DB Seminar series tomorrow. Thinking about what would be interesting for me to cover for the group. So now I'm watching one of the earlier talks in the series that I hadn't gotten to yet. Exon: A Built for Purpose Bioinformatics Database www.youtube.com/watch?v=fltZ...
So I have this theory that DataFusion, despite being a SQL engine, will actually enable a new breed of data systems to create non-SQL languages for working with data. Here's the idea...🧵
November 9, 2024 at 7:06 PM
So I have this theory that DataFusion, despite being a SQL engine, will actually enable a new breed of data systems to create non-SQL languages for working with data. Here's the idea...🧵
More database content, this time from @andypavlo.bsky.social's DB building blocks seminar series at CMU. This time with Luke Kim (not on here yet?) from Spice.ai talking about their work building a federated query engine/AI/RAG integration system inside a "DB": www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyM-...
Accelerating Data and AI with Spice.ai Open-Source Software (Luke Kim)
YouTube video by CMU Database Group
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October 31, 2024 at 7:12 PM
More database content, this time from @andypavlo.bsky.social's DB building blocks seminar series at CMU. This time with Luke Kim (not on here yet?) from Spice.ai talking about their work building a federated query engine/AI/RAG integration system inside a "DB": www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyM-...
lol deep database jokes paired with Die Hard memes? I’m here for it
October 31, 2024 at 12:18 PM
lol deep database jokes paired with Die Hard memes? I’m here for it
Interesting talk from @andypavlo.bsky.social at #p99conf on doing userspace bypass using eBPF for building high performance DBMS: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vD-0...
P99 CONF 2024 | The Next Chapter in the Sordid Love/Hate Relationship Btwn DBs & OSes by Andy Pavlo
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October 30, 2024 at 7:03 PM
Interesting talk from @andypavlo.bsky.social at #p99conf on doing userspace bypass using eBPF for building high performance DBMS: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vD-0...
I guess I’ll be posting on here a bit in addition to X. Not sure where things are going but @bsky.app seems to be picking up momentum. If it approximates an experience similar to old school tech Twitter, I am definitely in.
October 23, 2024 at 6:39 PM
I guess I’ll be posting on here a bit in addition to X. Not sure where things are going but @bsky.app seems to be picking up momentum. If it approximates an experience similar to old school tech Twitter, I am definitely in.
This is a great bright spot in the “commercialization of open source” world. Code still open and permissively licensed, but stable builds in the commercial product. Congrats to the Buoyant team!
Today I'm very excited to announce that Buoyant is profitable, growing, and more committed than ever to our customers and to Linkerd.
buoyant.io/blog/linkerd...
#kubernetes #linkerd #servicemesh
buoyant.io/blog/linkerd...
#kubernetes #linkerd #servicemesh
Linkerd Forever
Today, we're happy to announce that Buoyant is profitable, growing, and more committed than ever to our customers and to Linkerd. This year has been a significant one for us. In February, we shifted c...
buoyant.io
October 23, 2024 at 5:35 PM
This is a great bright spot in the “commercialization of open source” world. Code still open and permissively licensed, but stable builds in the commercial product. Congrats to the Buoyant team!