InfluxData builds a Time Series Platform primarily deployed for DevOps and IoT monitoring. This talk provides 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.

Ryan presents a number of failure conditions that informed subsequent design choices, and discusses 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.

Ryan is the Director of Engineering at InfluxData and is 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.