Journey to TimeScaleDB [Mike Freedman]

<p>Listen to the full interview on SEDaily: <a href="https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2021/06/28/timescale-time-series-databases-with-mike-freedman/">https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2021/06/28/timescale-time-series-databases-with-mike-freedman/</a></p><p><br>We originally created Timescale, really from our own need. Around that<br>time, 2014-2015, my co-founder and I, Ajay Kulkarni, who we go back many years, we resynced<br>up and we started thinking about it was a good time for both of us to think about what the next<br>challenges are that we want to tackle. It seemed to us that there was this emerging trend of<br>now, people talk about the digitization, or digital transformation. It feels like somewhat of an<br>analyst term, but I think, it's really responsive of what's happening, in that if you think about the<br>large, big IT revolution, it was about changing the back office. What was used to be on paper<br>was now in computers.</p><p><br>What we saw was somewhat the same thing happened to basically, every industry, from heavy<br>industry, to shipping, to logistics, to manufacturing, both discrete and continuous and home IoT.<br>Sometimes this gets blurred under IoT, but we also think about it more broadly as operational<br>technology, those which are not necessarily bits, but atoms. A big part of that was actually<br>collecting data of what those systems were doing. It's about sensors and data and whatnot.<br>When we do Initially looked at this problem, we were thinking about a type of data platform we<br>would want to build, to make it easy to collect and store and analyze that type of data. I think<br>that's a way that we're slightly different, or why our – what we ultimately built as our database<br>ended up being fairly different than a lot of other so-called time series databases. That's<br>because many of them arose out of IT monitoring, where they were trying to collect metrics from<br>servers, where we were originally thinking about collecting data more broadly from all these type<b