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Ed Bernier

I am a technologist specializing in all things data. I've been working with MPP databases for over 20 years. Much of that time was focused on data warehousing and analytics. Currently I'm focused on time-series data and metrics collection, processing, alerting and visualization. With the explosion of IoT and DevOps metrics data it's an exciting time.

Boston Time Series Meetup at Wayfair

By Ed Bernier / May 18, 2018 / Community

Last night was our second Boston Time Series Meetup hosted by Wayfair. We had a turnout of around 45 people even with the severe thunderstorms that hit the Boston area a little before the event. Ryan Betts, Yaacov Ankori and I attended...

The Effect of Cardinality on Data Ingest — Part 1

By Ed Bernier / Dec 01, 2017 / InfluxData, InfluxDB, Developer

In my role as a Sales Engineer here at InfluxData, I get to talk to a lot of clients about how they’re using InfluxDB and the rest of the TICK Stack. We have a large number of very large clients using...

Backup/Restore of InfluxDB from/to Docker Containers

By Ed Bernier / Sep 27, 2017 / InfluxDB, Community, Developer

One of the more exciting developments over the last few years is the emergence of containers, which allows software to be deployed in a securely isolated environment packaged with all its dependencies and libraries. Docker has emerged as one of the...

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