Eventual Consistency: The Hinted Handoff Queue
In this blog series, we’re going to explore eventual consistency, a term that can be hard to define without having all the right vocabulary. This is the consistency model used by many distributed systems, including InfluxDB Enterprise edition. There are two...
Understanding InfluxDB Enterprise: What is a Cluster?
If you’re getting started with InfluxDB Enterprise, you might have some questions. That’s always good news to us; questions mean you want to know more. Today’s question is: what is a cluster? In general, you probably know what a cluster is....
InfluxData at DevOps Days
At InfluxData, we love being a part of DevOps processes, so we make sure we attend and sponsor the events where the DevOps community flourishes. Over the past two weeks, we attended DevOpsDays Vancouver and DevOpsDays Seattle to do a little...
Getting Started with the InfluxDB Ruby Client
Let’s talk about the InfluxDB Ruby client. I love it for a lot of reasons, and mostly because it encapsulates what I love about Ruby: it abstracts away the pieces I don’t need to know and makes it easy to focus...
Kapacitor and Continuous Queries: How To Decide Which Tool You Need
Here at InfluxData, we have a pretty great community. You all ask smart questions and contribute to the constant improvement of our platform. You’re the butter on our bread and the glaze on our donut. Okay, now I’m hungry. <figcaption> What...
Optimizing Data Queries for Time Series Applications
Now that we understand what time series data is and why we want to store it in a Time Series Database, we’ve reached a new challenge. Like any application, we want to ensure our database queries are smart and performant, so...
Why Should I Use a Time Series Database?
Time series data is specialnot just in the unique data that it captures, but also in the ways we interact with that data. Maybe you’re starting to use time series data from sensors in your company’s thermostats (to finally prove that Dad...
What Is Time Series Data and Why Should You Care?
Like many people, I have lived most of my life without ever hearing the phrase “time series.” It wasn’t until I was interviewing at a company that builds a Time Series Platform that I realized I need to Google it. I wish I...
MySQL Metrics Part I: Throughput
In a perfect world, this blog post is about MySQL metrics and monitoring throughput in MySQL. In reality, this post is about understanding data visualizations, querying appropriately, and failing constantlyas a byproduct, I’m also monitoring throughput in MySQL. Let’s get started....
How Ruby Brought Me to InfluxData
All new InfluxData team members write a “Why I Came to InfluxData” blog post. I was supposed to write it a month ago when I started, but there’s so much to learn here about the products and the amazing community that...