I find that writing queries on metrics from data sources that I don’t have much control over can become quite complex and difficult to read. This gets even harder when I’m trying to debug a misbehaving query that returns no data. Since I’m using VictoriaMetrics rather than Prometheus, my queries are in MetricsQL. MetricsQL is like PromQL but comes with extra usability features, like with…
I wrote a post for the Render blog to announce the launch of the project I lead: Point-in-Time Recovery for Render Postgres. https://render.com/blog/point-in-time-recovery
Replication for the Global Data Plane # Replication for the Global Data Plane is a class research project for Advanced Topics in Computer Systems in which Steven Wu, Tony Yang, and I designed and implemented a distributed replication system for the data model presented by the Global Data Plane. What is the Global Data Plane? # The rise of the Internet of Things (IoT) has brought a large increase…