Product Update – Task Management at Scale and Invokable Scripts from the Tasks API
Thanks to Vinay Kumar for being a key contributor to this article. We love to write and ship code to help developers bring their ideas and projects to life. That’s why we’re constantly working on improving our product to meet developers...
Webinar Highlights: How Olympus Controls Automates Predictive Maintenance with Telit, MQTT, and InfluxDB
Unplanned outages are problematic for any organization, and can be especially costly for manufacturers when they involve parts that have a long lead time. In this webinar, Nick Armenta – Automation Engineer at Olympic Controls, shares how InfluxDB provides insights into...
An Introduction to OpenTelemetry and Observability
Cloud native and microservice architectures bring many advantages in terms of performance, scalability, and reliability, but one thing they can also bring is complexity. Having requests move between services can make debugging much more challenging and many of the past rules...
TL;DR Python Client Library
InfluxDB has over a dozen different client libraries to help developers work with time series data in whatever programming language they like best. The Python client library is one of our most popular options. It’s simple to learn, and working with...
EnerKey Reduces Energy Consumption in Commercial Buildings Using InfluxDB
Commercial buildings produce 16% of carbon dioxide emissions in the US, and the EPA estimates that 30% of the energy used by these buildings is wasted. Energy efficiency in commercial buildings is a vital aspect of the transition to greener systems...
Flipping the Sales Script: How to break biases and diversify sales teams
This article was originally published in TechCrunch and is reposted here with permission. Technology leaders don’t like to admit it, but sales has a perception problem that deters many fabulous candidates – especially women and minorities – from pursuing careers in...
Outer Joins in Flux
Joins are a common transformation in any query language, and as part of the effort to make Flux an increasingly valuable tool for our users, the engineers on InfluxData’s query team created, and continue to maintain, two separate join functions. And...
Introduction to Cloud Native
This article was written by Savan Kharod. Scroll down for the author’s bio and photo. User experience is the pinnacle of cloud technology. With cloud data centers handling 94 percent of all workloads, cloud optimization is vital. Users need fast, agile,...
July Monthly Product Update – New Resources to Get Started with InfluxDB and Go
We love to write and ship code to help developers bring their ideas and projects to life. That’s why we’re constantly working on improving our product to meet developers wherever they are, to ensure their happiness, and accelerate Time to Awesome....
It’s BBQ Season! How Pit Bosses Use InfluxDB to Avoid the Stall
If you’re ever in Dallas or Kansas City (or really any foodie city) and feel like having a spirited debate, just ask who does BBQ best. Having lived in Texas for most of my life, I can confidently say Texans take...