March 13 – 14, 2019 | NEW YORK
InfluxDays New York 2019 was a great event and we all had a blast!
In case you missed it, here is a list of the conference sessions and link to their talk.
Tim Hall
VP of Products, InfluxData
A Walkthrough of InfluxCloud 2.0
Tim Hall, VP of Products at InfluxData, will demonstrate how to set up and use the next InfluxCloud 2.0.
About Tim Hall: Tim is a seasoned executive responsible for products, support, and professional services at InfluxData. Prior to joining InfluxData, Tim was VP of product management at Hortonworks where he was responsible for leading the product management, documentation, and user experience design teams. Previously, Tim held management level positions at Oracle, HP, Talking Blocks, and Xpedior. Tim holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Claremont McKenna College in Science and Management with a concentration in Physics.
Ron Pantofaro
Solutions Architect, Google Cloud at Google
Russ Savage
Director of Product Management, InfluxData
@RussellSavage
Building Modern Data Pipelines for Time-Series Data on GCP with InfluxData
In this talk, you will get an overview of the Google data pipelines and some use-cases for infrastructure monitoring and IoT (Google). In addition, we will share some common solutions that can be deployed on GCP including using InfluxDB for Kubernetes Monitoring and IoT.
About Russ Savage: Russ Savage is Director of Product Management at InfluxData where he focuses on enabling DevOps for teams using InfluxDB and the TICK Stack. He has a background in computer engineering and has been focused on various aspects of enterprise data for the past 10 years. Russ has previously worked at Cask Data, Elastic, Box, and Amazon. When Russ is not working at InfluxData, he can be seen speeding down the slopes on a pair of skis.
Gunnar Aasen
Manager of Partner Engineering, InfluxData
@gunnaraasen
Container Monitoring Best Practices Using AWS and InfluxData
In this talk, you will get an overview of the AWS Container Monitoring Stack as well as how you can use InfluxDB on AWS for container monitoring. This session will include a demo of the solution.
In his free time, Gunnar is a civic tech enthusiast and has a mildly concerning obsession with space law, half marathons and food.
Adam Anthony
Developer, InfluxData
Extending Flux – Writing Your Own Functions
In this talk you will learn about methods for extending the Flux language: porting Go functions to Flux, writing pure Flux functions, writing custom transformations in Go, and adding custom data sources. A walkthrough will first demonstrate how to port parts of the Go math library to Flux, and then how they can be applied to time series using a pure Flux function. Followed by an overview of how to implement custom transformations and data sources, the talk concludes with design guidelines to help you decide on the best approach for writing your own extension.
Noah Crowley
DevRel, InfluxData
@noahcrowley
How to Build a Telegraf Plugin
Telegraf is a plugin-driven server agent for collecting & reporting metrics and there are many plugins already written to source data from a variety of services and systems. However, there may be instances where you need to write your own plugin to source data from your particular systems. In this session, Noah will provide you with the steps on how to write your own Telegraf plugin. This will require an understanding of the Go programming language.
About Noah Crowley: Noah is a Developer Evangelist at InfluxData, focused on DevOps with a dash of IoT. He has worked as a systems administrator, audio engineer, production coordinator for an animation studio, and as a software developer building DevOps tools. Noah holds a master’s degree from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU, where he focused on augmented reality, physical computing, and interaction design.
Ryan Betts
Director of Engineering, InfluxData
@ryanbetts
InfluxData Internals
InfluxData builds a Time Series Platform primarily deployed for DevOps and IoT monitoring. This talk presents several lessons learned while scaling the platform across a large number of deployments—from single server open source instances to highly available high-throughput clusters.
This talk presents a number of failure conditions that informed subsequent design choices. Ryan will discuss designing backpressure in an AP system with 10’s of thousands of resource-limited writers; trade-offs between monolithic and service-oriented database implementations; and lessons learned implementing multiple query processing systems.
About Ryan Betts: Ryan is the Director of Engineering at InfluxData responsible for the core database platform. Prior to InfluxData, Ryan was the second employee and CTO at VoltDB. VoltDB provides an in-memory database for applications that require an unprecedented combination of data scale, volume, and accuracy. Prior to VoltDB, Ryan spent time in various leadership roles at IBM and Lucent Technologies. Ryan is an alumnus of Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
PAUL DIX
Founder and CTO, InfluxData
@pauldix
InfluxData Platform Future and Vision
Paul will outline his vision around the platform and give the latest updates on Flux (formerly IFQL), the decoupling of query and storage, the impact of hybrid cloud environments on architecture, cardinality, and discuss the technical directions of the platform. This talk will walk through the vision and architecture with demonstrations of working prototypes of the projects.
About Paul Dix: Paul Dix is the creator of InfluxDB. He has helped build software for startups, large companies and organizations like Microsoft, Google, McAfee, Thomson Reuters, and Air Force Space Command. He is the series editor for Addison Wesley’s Data & Analytics book and video series. In 2010 Paul wrote the book Service-Oriented Design with Ruby and Rails for Addison Wesley’s. In 2009 he started the NYC Machine Learning Meetup, which now has over 7,000 members. Paul holds a degree in computer science from Columbia University.
Sam Dillard
Sales Engineer, InfluxData
InfluxDB 1.0: Optimizing InfluxDB Performance
This talk by Sam Dillard shows how to optimize InfluxDB 1.0 for performance including hardware and architecture choices, schema design, configuration setup, and running queries.
About Sam Dillard: Sam Dillard is a Sales Engineer at InfluxData. He is passionate about making customers successful with their solutions as well as continuously updating his technical skills. Sam has a BS in Economics from Santa Clara University.
Noah Crowley
DevRel, InfluxData
@noahcrowley
InfluxDB 2.0 Client Libraries
InfluxDB comes with a new set of client libraries to allow you to insert time series data from your applications into the new InfluxDB 2.0. Specifically, Noah will share how to use the Java client library to insert data and query it in your applications.
About Noah Crowley: Noah is a Developer Evangelist at InfluxData, focused on DevOps with a dash of IoT. He has worked as a systems administrator, audio engineer, production coordinator for an animation studio, and as a software developer building DevOps tools. Noah holds a master’s degree from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU, where he focused on augmented reality, physical computing, and interaction design.
Craig Hobbs
Sales Engineer, InfluxData
@chobbs10
InfluxDB 2.0: Dashboarding 101
InfluxDB 2.0 has some new dashboarding and querying capabilities that will make using a time series database even easier. Listen to Craig Hobbs, a software developer, walk you through how to set up your first dashboard.
About Craig Hobbs: Craig Hobbs is a Sales Engineer at InfluxData. His experience with keeping systems performant over the years has helped to shape the kind of Sales Engineer he is today—one who enjoys solving complex problems and keeping sales people honest. His specialties include: Solution Architect, Project Management, POC Design and Development, Software Customization, Technical Training, ETL Automation, Application Integration and Deployment. Craig has a BS from the University of Illinois.
Tim Hall
VP of Products, InfluxData
Sam Dillard
Sales Engineer, InfluxData
Tim Hall and Sam Dillard discuss architecture patterns with InfluxEnterprise, covering an enterprise overview, features, ingestion and query rates, deployment examples, replication patterns, and general advice.
About Tim Hall: Tim is a seasoned executive responsible for products, support, and professional services at InfluxData. Prior to joining InfluxData, Tim was VP of product management at Hortonworks where he was responsible for leading the product management, documentation, and user experience design teams. Previously, Tim held management level positions at Oracle, HP, Talking Blocks, and Xpedior. Tim holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Claremont McKenna College in Science and Management with a concentration in Physics.
About Sam Dillard: Sam Dillard is a Sales Engineer at InfluxData. He is passionate about making customers successful with their solutions as well as continuously updating his technical skills. Sam has a BS in Economics from Santa Clara University.
Sonia Gupta
Developer Advocate, InfluxData
Introduction to InfluxDB 2.0 & Your First Flux Query
In this talk, Sonia will provide an introduction to InfluxDB 2.0 and a review of the new features. She will demonstrate how to install it, insert data, and build your first Flux query.
About Sonia Gupta: Sonia is currently a software developer in Denver, CO. Prior to becoming a developer, Sonia was a lawyer in Louisiana. She served as a Public Defender in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, then as a Prosecutor, and finally as an Assistant Attorney General doing torts and Civil Rights litigation.
Sonia is an outspoken advocate of diversity and inclusion in tech and in life. She is passionate about fostering empathetic and effective communication on engineering teams, and believes that even if tech can’t always change the world, technologists absolutely can.
VP Production Engineering & Operations, Oracle
Octo and the DevSecOps Evolution at Oracle
The transition from 40 years of successful licensed software development to an agile-based SaaS business involves many challenges. Octo, a real-time streaming metrics framework built around InfluxDB, is aimed specifically at one: simplifying the collection and visualization of mission-critical operational data to enable a culture change toward metrics immersion and product ownership.
About Ian Van Hoven: Ian is the VP of Production Engineering & Operations at Oracle. He is a business-minded technology executive with 25+ years experience in globally-distributed systems design, build and operations at scale — spanning software development, production operations, professional services and technical sales. He has deep experience in startups, building and leading teams to create great products to establish and compete in emerging markets.
Matthew Iverson
Site Reliability Engineer, Optum, a Division of UnitedHealth Group
@Iversonm
Reducing Snowflakes with Automatic Deployments via Lighthouse
In this talk, we are going to go through the journey that Optum took with its automation in deploying Telegraf, Influx and Lighthouse at scale. With any large enterprise, scale ends up being a critical piece to consider with any item. Lighthouse was developed in-house to control what configurations, versions and plugins go out to each individual server deployed with any of the UnitedHealth Group datacenters. It also gives them the ability to dynamically change items and have configurations rolled out within 30 minutes without ever touching a server.
About Matt Iverson: Matthew Iverson is a Site Reliability Engineer at Optum. While at work, Matt spends his time creating and implementing ideas and solutions to increase reliability within the organization. In his free time, he is typically developing his OSS project called LegionIO, working on his homelab, or spending time with his wife, son and pup.
David Simmons
IoT Developer Evangelist, InfluxData
@davidgsIoT
Setting Up InfluxData for IoT
David will be walking you through a typical data architecture for an IoT device. Then, it will be a hands-on workshop to gather data from the device, display it on a dashboard and trigger alerts based on thresholds that you set.
About David Simmons: David Simmons is the IoT Developer Evangelist at InfluxData, helping developers around the globe manage the streams of data that their devices produce. He is passionate about IoT and helped to develop the very first IoT Developer Platform before “IoT” was even ‘a thing.’ David has held numerous technical evangelist roles at companies such as DragonFly IOT, Riverbed Technologies, and Sun. He studied Computer Science at the University of New Mexico and has a BA in Technical Writing from Columbia University.
Jacob Lisi
Software Engineer, Grafana Labs
Using Grafana with InfluxDB 2.0 and Flux Lang
Flux, the new InfluxData Data Scripting Language (formerly IFQL), super-charges queries both for analytics and data science. Jacob will give a quick overview of the language features as well as the moving parts for a working deployment. Grafana is an open source dashboard solution that shares Flux’s passion for analytics and data science. For that reason, they are very excited to showcase the new Flux support within Grafana, and a couple of common analytics use cases to get the most out of your data.
In this talk, Jacob Lisi from Grafana Labs will share the latest updates they have made with their Flux builder in Grafana.
Richard Laskey
Senior Software Engineer, Wayfair
Wayfair Storefront Performance Monitoring with InfluxEnterprise
In this session, Richard Laskey from the Wayfair Storefront team will share their monitoring best practices using InfluxEnterprise. These efforts are critical and helps improve the user experience by driving forward site-wide improvements, establishing best practices, and driving change through many different teams.
Saravanan “Krisha” Krishnaraju
Master Software Engineer, Capital One
Rajeev Tomer
Enterprise Data Architect, Capital One
Karl Daman
Software Engineer, Capital One
Why Architecting for Disaster Recovery is Important for Your Time Series Data
Time Series data at Capital One consists of Infrastructure, Application, and Business Process Metrics. The combination of these metrics are what the internal stakeholders rely on for observability which allows them to deliver better service and uptime for their customers, so protecting this critical data with a proven and tested recovery plan is not a “nice to have” but a “must have.”
In this talk, the members of IT staff, Saravanan Krisharaju, Rajeev, and Karl will share how they built a fault-tolerant solution based on InfluxEnterprise and AWS that collects and stores metrics and events. They added to this, Machine Learning, which uses the collected time series to model predictions which are then brought back into InfluxDB for real-time access. The team shares the journey they took to architect and build this solution as well as plan and execute on their disaster recovery plan.
About Saravanan “Krisha” Krishnaraju: Saravanan “Krisha” Krishnaraju is currently a Master Software Engineer at Capital One with 20+ years of experience in overseeing and managing complex, distributed systems in Cloud and ONPREM. At Capital One, as an AWS cloud architect he has extensively worked on architecting and implementing highly resilient applications in cloud including Open Source systems like Zabbix, InfluxDB and home-grown applications. He has worked on migrating applications from ONPREM to Cloud embracing Devops tools and AWS. He has a degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Bharathidasan University, India.