Dan Wright
Principal Engineer, Software at Everactive
I have been interested in data and data systems for many years across a variety of disciplines, including scientific high-performance computing, bioinformatics, and music recommender systems. Currently I work at Everactive on our predictive-maintenance cloud data platform for industrial IoT. I'm also real into bikes.
Upcoming presentations
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Past presentations
Migrating from OpenTSDB to Timescale
or, how Postgres let us stop worrying and love SQL
I will discuss the migration of our industrial IoT data (and ingest pipeline) from OpenTSDB to Postgres + Timescale. When Everactive was first getting started, we didn't understand timeseries databases well, but we knew that timeseries in SQL was well known to be a Bad Thing. As we've grown, we've discovered much about dedicated timeseries stores (and their shortcomings), and Timescale has come...
@ Postgres Conference 2020
Migration