Flux Training Returns — Saved Your Spot Yet?

Cat Stevans (InfluxData) — Fri, 27 Aug 2021 02:00:01 -0700

Hands-On Flux Training returns by popular demand! As part of InfluxDays NA 2021 Virtual Experience, it will take place on October 11-12, two weeks prior to the conference - with only 50 spots available to ensure an ideal student-to-teacher ratio. The course uses an IoT-sensor-enabled pizza oven and corresponding time-stamped data as an example. You will learn Flux while discussing how the temperature and humidity levels of a pizza oven can impact the cooking of the pizza crust and the melting of the mozzarella. ???? It’s time series analysis at your fingertips!

What is Flux?

Flux was developed by the creators of InfluxDB. It’s a data scripting and query language that’s ideal for ETL, monitoring and alerting. Developers can query and code with Flux - and use it to explore and analyze data across time.

Here’s what makes Flux empowering:

Has a CLI and a web-based UI for point-and-click scripting
Combines the power of InfluxQL and the functionality of TICKscripts to create a more powerful single unified syntax (which was primarily inspired by 2018's most popular scripting language: JavaScript)
Is meant to be usable, readable, flexible, composable, testable, contributable and shareable

What you'll learn from this Flux course

This is a starter course, so it’s okay if you’re not yet familiar with Flux. Over the span of two half-days, you’ll become familiar with Flux and InfluxDB Cloud! In case you already attended our Flux Training course in past years, stay tuned for details on a new Advanced Flux Training we’re planning to announce soon!

This starter Flux course includes lectures, demos, hands-on practices, homework, polls, and breakout sessions for better 1:1 time with one of the three instructors. You’ll learn:

Basics of time series data & InfluxDB
Simple Flux queries
Data analysis and preparation
Custom alerts and data processing tasks
Time series forecasting and anomaly detection
And more!

Learning a new query and scripting language while discussing pizza and sensor data is fun! ???????? And it’s easy to imagine all the time series data projects you can cook up with your newfound knowledge. This course is capped at 50 students and costs $500.00 - so save your spot now before spots run out. Given the power of Flux and InfluxDB Cloud, this might be this year’s best training investment - and one that accelerates your time to awesome. Excited to start using InfluxDB’s Data Explorer to query your data with Flux?

“The Flux training was really useful as Flux is quite a big shift from the more common SQL-like query languages. The examples and exercises were really helpful in deepening our understanding of the data structures at play, and much aligned to the spirit of the conference itself the attendees were encouraged to demonstrate & help each other further their learning.” - Jamie Milton

Senior Analytics Consultant, Fort Digital

Meet your experienced Flux trainers

Our fantastic trainers have hosted this course multiple times. After every session, they come back together to revise the training content based on real student feedback as well incorporating Fluxlang updates from InfluxData.

Emanuele is a professor at Politecnico di Milano, which is the largest technical university in Italy. Together with Marco, they founded Quantia Consulting to enable clients to become data-driven through better data engineering, analysis and visualization. They use their industry expertise to create training programs. Riccardo is a Professor at the University of Tartu, the national university of Estonia.

Together, the three trainers provide a unique combination of industry knowledge and instructional design expertise to develop and organize the training.

Says Emanuele: “I love engaging with the participants in my courses — online training often limits this possibility. Thanks to the audience and my two great co-trainers, the last two online Flux training were as engaging as physical ones!”

The virtual training registration fee is $500 and automatically registers you for InfluxDays North America Virtual Experience 2021. Spots are running out - save yours today!

It's About Time I Joined InfluxData - Cat Stevans

Cat Stevans (InfluxData) — Tue, 10 Aug 2021 10:23:20 -0700

What brought me to InfluxData was a mix of fate and curiosity. My curiosity was piqued at their core values - especially at the proclamation ‘we embrace failure’. That shows me that InfluxData has the strength to state we will take risks, we will break things and we will learn from them. Any company that places their values front and center gets my attention (as it was succinctly stated to me in the interview process ‘these are not just decals we place on a wall’.). Where fate came in is I had the pleasure of working with not just one, or two, but three colleagues that happened to all be at InfluxData. I hold each one of them in the highest regard professionally and personally, and if they were thriving, the writing on the wall said I would too.

We Value Each Other

One of the best highlights in my two months here at InfluxData is working with my team: Marketing. We each have each other’s backs, get to collaborate on a daily basis, propose new ways of doing things all while exposing what each person brings to the table. I learn so much from my team every day. When you get to do what you love with others that love what they do — it’s truly a gift I get every day.

We believe humility drives learning

Having come from a ‘non-traditional’ journey into the technology community, I can at times feel like the odd duck out. Not here. I am encouraged to ask questions, propose new ideas, drive down the ‘why’ ‘how’ and ‘why again’ questions that other companies can tend to dismiss. Questions can bring new ideas which in turn bring new ways of seeing the familiar. Continuous learning is a passion of mine, and is a pillar of the InfluxData framework.

We are committed to Open Source

While I am familiar with the Open Source community, I have never worked for a company that is so dedicated to it. It shows in everything we do that we truly care about helping developers get to results faster with less complexity and less code.

And finally - 'Get Stuff Done'

There was a reason why Elvis Presely had ‘TCB’ painted on his plane. ‘Taking Care of Business’ by doing it right, with compassion and understanding is paramount for me, and to find a company that practices this is amazing.

I hope to see you either online or in person at one of our many events in 2021 and beyond!

InfluxData Blog - Cat Stevans