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Gene Hynson

Gene is a Software Engineer at InfluxData who is passionate about building thrilling product features for InfluxDB. Gene has 5 years of experience as a full-stack engineer building modern, cloud-first software at VMware, Pivotal, and Boeing. Outside of work, Gene spends his free time skiing the slopes in the winter or playing volleyball on the beach in the summer.

Monitoring Your Smart Home with InfluxDB and IFTTT

By Gene Hynson / Nov 17, 2021 / InfluxDB, Community, InfluxDB Cloud, Developer, Flux

Do you have a bunch of smart home devices, such as IoT devices like smart switches, cameras, doorbells, alarm systems or appliances? Have you ever wanted to monitor and send events from those devices to InfluxDB? And wouldn’t it be amazing...

Out-of-this-world monitoring with InfluxDB and React

By Gene Hynson / Apr 06, 2021 / InfluxDB, Community, Telegraf, Developer

Reprinted with permission. © IDG Communications, Inc., 2021. https://www.infoworld.com/article/3609389/out-of-this-world-monitoring-with-influxdb-and-react.html During an InfluxData internal hackathon, I was looking to work on a project that would help me strengthen my Telegraf and Flux skills. I also wanted to use InfluxData’s Giraffe to visualize my project in a React application. After reading Sean...

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