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Paul Dix @pauldix.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

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

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Paul Dix @pauldix.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

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...

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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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Paul Dix @pauldix.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

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...

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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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Paul Dix @pauldix.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

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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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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bauplan @bauplan.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

🚀 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...

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Paul Dix @pauldix.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

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...

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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...

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Paul Dix @pauldix.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

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...

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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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Paul Dix @pauldix.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

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).

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Paul Dix @pauldix.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

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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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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Andy Pavlo @andypavlo.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

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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SQL Has Problems. We Can Fix Them: Pipe Syntax In SQL

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Rawkode Academy @rawkode.academy · 04/02/2025

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. Listen Cloud Native Podcast🎧 : buff.ly/3WMcHBE created by @rawkode.dev @nimbinatus.bsky.social

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Paul Dix @pauldix.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

We realize that not all use cases will fit into what InfluxDB Core is able to do. It is meant to be scoped for data collection, processing, shipping, and query against short time ranges. It is constrained to this by technical limitations and architectural design.

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Paul Dix @pauldix.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

You can configure the file limit to whatever you want it to be. 7 days is 980 files. If you have enough RAM, it'll work. It just won't be very fast. If that capability is vital to your use case, then you should consider another solution or becoming a customer of InfluxDB 3 Enterprise.

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Paul Dix @pauldix.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

#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.

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Paul Dix @pauldix.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

We’ll be supporting v2 with security updates for quite some time. Years. We don’t currently have an EOL planned or set.

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Paul Dix @pauldix.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

ah yes, sorry, busy couple of weeks. Responding now!

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Paul Dix @pauldix.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Is your use case at work or home? We're looking at a free tier for Enterprise, which doesn't have this limitation. For Core, we realize that not all users of v1 and v2 will make the move as it doesn't do everything those do. But it offers features the previous versions don't. So some new audience

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Paul Dix @pauldix.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Of course, that's why I think we should be able to figure something out for the at-home use cases. Tailscale does a great job of this, I think we should be able to as well.

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Paul Dix @pauldix.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

For the hobbyist use case, we'll probably want to figure something out. For commercial use, we plan to sell the historical TSDB. Core is mean to be for recent data, which we hope is a use case that many people have and find it a great fit for.

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Paul Dix @pauldix.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

For at home use cases, we may do a freemium tier of the Enterprise server, which has the compactor, which is what is needed for longer time frames. The hobbyist use case is one we'd like to find a way to support for free.

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Paul Dix @pauldix.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

What's your use case? We've seen many of our users and customers never query beyond 72h (many not even beyond 24h).

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Paul Dix @pauldix.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Pat Walsh is our new CMO, he might be the best to intro you to. Shoot me an email and I can forward onto him

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Paul Dix @pauldix.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

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.

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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...

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Paul Dix @pauldix.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Congrats! Excited to see you working on it again!

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Paul Dix @pauldix.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

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...

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Apache DataFusion is now the fastest single node engine for querying Apache Parquet files

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Paul Dix @pauldix.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Happy Nvidia earnings announcement day to all who celebrate

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Andy Pavlo @andypavlo.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

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...

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Paul Dix @pauldix.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

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.

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Paul Dix @pauldix.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

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...

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Building InfluxDB 3.0 with the FDAP Stack: Apache Flight, DataFusion, Arrow and Parquet (Paul Dix)

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Paul Dix @pauldix.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Totally agree. I’ve debated internally with people saying if we did BUSL we could give more away. My response is, why for? What does that get us? Might as well keep the OSS and put those other things in the commercial. Open Core isn’t great either but I prefer it to Fair Core.

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Paul Dix @pauldix.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

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...

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[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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Paul Dix @pauldix.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

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...

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Exon: A Built for Purpose Bioinformatics Database (Trent Hauck)

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Paul Dix @pauldix.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

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.

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Paul Dix @pauldix.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

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.

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Paul Dix @pauldix.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

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.

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Paul Dix @pauldix.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

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...

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Paul Dix @pauldix.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

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...

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Paul Dix @pauldix.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

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 @pauldix.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

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-...

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Accelerating Data and AI with Spice.ai Open-Source Software (Luke Kim)

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Paul Dix @pauldix.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

lol deep database jokes paired with Die Hard memes? I’m here for it

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Paul Dix @pauldix.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

Given it’s a low level library that is permissively licensed, I think it’s low risk. If the ideas are good and it’s worth continuing, easy enough to fork and put wherever you want. Parquet is just a spec with a variety of different implementations with different projects, vendors, etc.

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Paul Dix @pauldix.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

It’s a really interesting project. I’m really hoping to get some time to prototype some ideas with this in InfluxDB 3 next year

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Paul Dix @pauldix.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

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.

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Paul Dix @pauldix.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

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!

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