Workload is mostly writing incoming metrics from many dynamic instances (AWS). In 2015 Influx was at pre-1.0 and definitely had a tendency to "fall apart" under stress - for one, there were no memory limitations implemented, so an accidental large query would eat up all your memory and kill the database. To be fair, no one recommended putting it in production at that point. It's just that I needed something to run a Graphite-like metrics platform at scale and it had to be future-proof. Bit of a gamble but it turned out well! :)