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David Flanagan

David Flanagan

David is a Senior Developer Advocate at Equinix Metal and a member of the Kubernetes organization and release team. As a professional technology magpie, David was an early adopter of cloud, container, and cloud-native technologies; crossing the murky waters of AWS in 2008, Docker in 2014, and Kubernetes in 2015. With an insatiable love for technology, David is always on the hunt to learn and share knowledge with others in fun and exciting ways.

Slack Tips for Remote Communication

As the world is now forced into remote working due to COVID-19, I believe it’s important to make some things explicit that have been implicit for many a remote worker over the past few years with the rise of Slack in...

Meetup Notifications with InfluxDB Cloud

It was a warm Thursday afternoon, in Scotland, when the familiar chime of Slack woke me from my daydream. It was Thom. Hmm, what does he want? <figcaption> Thom asks a simple question.</figcaption> The mission It was simple. Thom wanted to...

InfluxDB 2 Migration Path: Instrumentation

InfluxDB 2 and our SaaS offering, InfluxDB Cloud 2, are right around the corner. While we’re finalizing the last of our wonderful updates to give you the InfluxDB 2 experience you deserve, we’re going to talk to you about migration paths....

Bring Your Own Telegraf

I have the privilege of telling people I work for a truly open source company. What do I mean by that? 90% of the InfluxData code is open source, with that other 10% being our enterprise additions to our database, InfluxDB....

Monitoring TLS Certificates with Telegraf

We’ve all been there. You’re sitting eating your lunch in the office canteen and you notice a flurry of people walking briskly and asking each other to check the website on their phone. Is it just one phone? Oh, it’s your...

One Click to Awesome: Deploying with the DigitalOcean Marketplace

We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve worked with DigitalOcean to bring the TICK Stack to their new Marketplace, providing all DigitalOcean users with a one-click TICK Stack. Getting started We’re going to assume you already have a DigitalOcean account. If you...

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