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Talking Distributed Systems at Hacker Nights

I recently had the opportunity to talk distributed systems and rqlite at the Hacker Nights NYC Meetup. It was great chance to speak with some  folks, and discuss rqlite, its design, and how it operates. The presentation is available, as…

rqlite at the Pitt CS Club

I recently had a chance to speak about rqlite, the distributed, lightweight database built on SQLite, at the University of Pittsburgh Computer Science Club. It was a good evening as  I spoke about distributed systems, the problems they solve, and how rqlite…

Percolate at the San Francisco Python Meetup

The new Analytics system, built by my team at Percolate, allows our end-users to program their own custom calculations, offering them the ability to precisely customize the product for their needs. At the center of that feature is a Pratt…

Ekanite at the San Francisco Go Meetup

I gave a presentation on Ekanite — the syslog server with built-in search — tonight at the San Francisco Go Meetup. It was an enjoyable evening, and I had a chance to discuss why I built Ekanite, how it works, and…

rqlite at the San Francisco Go Meetup

I made a presentation on rqlite tonight at the San Francisco Go Meetup. It was an enjoyable evening, and I had a chance to discuss why I built rqlite, how it works, and where it might go in the future.

InfluxDB and the Raft consensus protocol

I recently presented at the InfluxDB San Francisco Meetup, on InfluxDB and the Raft consensus protocol. My talk was about the fundamental problems of distributed systems, and how InfluxDB uses Raft to solve these issues.