Paul Dix

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).

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Paul Dix
@pauldix.bsky.social

I recorded this the day before Opus 4.6 and Codex 5.3 got released. I was in the middle of cleaning up an AI slopfest. Since this I’m back to letting AIs write the code, but with a watchful eye and a short leash

Changelog@changelog.com

🥳 New Changelog interview! changelog.fm/676

changelog.fmChangelog Interviews #676Paul Dix joins us to discuss the InfluxDB co-founder's journey adapting to an agentic world. Paul sent his AI coding agents on various real-world side quests and shares all his findings: what's going to prod, what's not, and why he's (at least for a bit) back to coding by hand.
Paul Dix
@pauldix.bsky.social

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...

influxdata.comInfluxDB 3 on Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB: Real-Time Performance, Now Fully Managed on AWSInfluxDB 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...
Paul Dix
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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...

linkedin.comToday we released #InfluxDB 3.2 in open source Core and Enterprise. | Paul DixToday 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 ...
Paul Dix
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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-...

influxdata.comWhat’s Inside InfluxDB 3.1: New Features for Security, Performance, and VisibilityInfluxDB 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...
Paul Dix
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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...

influxdata.comInfluxDB 3 Core & Enterprise GA: The Next Generation Time Series Platform for Developers is HereInfluxDB 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...
Paul Dix
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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...

thoughts-and-things.ghost.ioRecreating Daft Punk's Something About UsAn 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...
Paul Dix
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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).

Grafana@grafana.bsky.social

🚀🚀🚀 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! 👋

Paul Dix
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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...

influxdata.comInfluxDB 3 Core and Enterprise Are Now in BetaInfluxDB 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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Andy Pavlo
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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...

research.googleSQL Has Problems. We Can Fix Them: Pipe Syntax In SQL
CMU Database Group@db.cs.cmu.edu

Today's SQL or Death Seminar Speaker: Jeff Shute from Google will present their Pipe Syntax Enhancements for SQL. Zoom talk open to public at 4:30pm ET. YouTube video available after: db.cs.cmu.edu/events/sql-d...

db.cs.cmu.edu[SQL Death] Pipe Syntax in SQL: SQL for the 21st Century - Carnegie Mellon Database GroupSQL has been extremely successful as the de facto standard language for... Read More +
Paul Dix
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#InfluxDB 3 Core can now receive data from any time period and you'll be able to query any point in time. However, there is still a technical limitation to the range of time a single query will be able to process. I cover the technical details in the post.

Paul Dix
@pauldix.bsky.social

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.

influxdata.comInfluxDB 3 Open Source Now in Public Alpha Under MIT/Apache 2 LicenseAnnouncing 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...
Paul Dix
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It's partly a pitch for why you should use DataFusion if you're building a custom data system. I'm excited about database innovation at the edges that DF will enable. I think there are three big opportunities: languages, indexes, and file formats. Usability, performance, and cost wins are possible.

Paul Dix
@pauldix.bsky.social

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...

db.cs.cmu.edu[Building Blocks] Building InfluxDB 3.0 with the FDAP Stack: Apache Flight, DataFusion, Arrow and Parquet (Paul Dix) - Carnegie Mellon Database GroupThis talk is part of the Database Building Blocks Seminar Series. Zoom... Read More +
Paul Dix
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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...🧵

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Paul Dix
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If we had this available when we built the Flux language for #InfluxDB 2.0, it would have saved us years of effort. And it would have given all the users that saw Flux as a barrier to adoption a familiar option. We never had the chance to iterate on Flux devex because of all the other stuff.

Paul Dix
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DataFusion is going to be a game changer for innovation in the data space. More languages, more storage formats, more infrastructure projects, architectural designs, and everything else. I'm really happy that we've been able to contribute and help develop it over the last 4+ years.

Paul Dix
@pauldix.bsky.social

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...🧵

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Paul Dix
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With DataFusion, you can create the language, but get the planner, optimizer and execution engine for free. With all their complexity, performance optimizations and ongoing development effort. And you get to toss in SQL at no additional cost...

Paul Dix
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So now you can iterate on user experience with your new language, while still giving everyone that wants it a fully featured SQL engine. So you're not giving up 4 decades of training and momentum, but you can experiment and innovate at the edges.

Paul Dix
@pauldix.bsky.social

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...🧵

Paul Dix
@pauldix.bsky.social

Before, you'd have to create not only the language, but also the planner, optimizer, execution engine, and pretty much everything. Even worse than that, you'd be tied to your new language and have no escape hatch for users that preferred SQL. Not so with DataFusion...

Paul Dix
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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.

Paul Dix
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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!

William Morgan@williammorgan.me

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.ioLinkerd ForeverToday, 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...

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