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Rick Spencer

Rick is formerly the VP of Products at InfluxData. Over the course of his career, Rick’s experience includes pioneering work on Developer Usability, leading popular Open Source projects, and packaging, delivering and maintaining cloud software.

Write a Database in 50 Lines of Code

Writing your own database Writing a database isn’t something that most people set out to do on a whim. There are a ton of different components and things to think about to build something that is truly functional and performant. But...

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Nov 08, 2023

How We Did It: Data Ingest and Compression Gains in InfluxDB 3.0

A few weeks ago, we published some benchmarking that showed performance gains in InfluxDB 3.0 that are orders of magnitude better than previous versions of InfluxDB – and by extension, other databases as well. There are two key factors that influence...

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Oct 04, 2023

Announcing InfluxDB Clustered: InfluxDB 3.0 for Self-Managed Environments

Today, we’re excited to announce InfluxDB Clustered, our latest product developed on the InfluxDB 3.0 product suite. InfluxDB Clustered is the evolution of InfluxDB Enterprise, our popular self-managed product for large-scale time series workloads. For enterprises, the performance leap from InfluxDB...

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Sep 06, 2023

Save 96% on Data Storage Costs

Painful tradeoffs between utility and costs Users with real-time and other analytic workloads want or need to keep large volumes of historical data to aid in important activities, such as ad hoc historical trend analysis and training AI models. However, storing...

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Jul 05, 2023

Introducing InfluxDB 3.0: Available Today in InfluxDB Cloud Dedicated

It’s been literally years now that I have been first tangentially, and then intimately involved with the project that has become InfluxDB 3.0. I started using it so early that one of the DataFusion upstream developers literally calls me “User0” …...

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Apr 26, 2023

Why InfluxDB Cloud, Powered by IOx is a Big Deal to Me

From time to time throughout my career, I have been involved in projects with dramatic releases when we built and delivered something very new and very special. The release of InfluxDB Cloud, powered by IOx (referred to as “InfluxDB IOx” for...

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Mar 10, 2023

More Capabilities, Less Code: Announcing Platform New Features at InfluxDays 2022

The InfluxDB platform has evolved a lot over the past decade. But with every innovation we’ve added to the platform, the focus behind our efforts has remained the same: Build cool stuff for people who build cool stuff. What we mean...

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Nov 02, 2022

Building an IoT App with InfluxDB Cloud, Python and Flask (Part 3)

Last year I started an IoT project, Plant Buddy. This project entailed soldering some sensors to an Arduino, and teaching that device how to communicate directly with InfluxDB Cloud so that I could monitor those plants. Now I am taking that...

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Jul 02, 2021

How to Consolidate OSS Data into a Cloud Account

In this post, we will describe a simple way to share data from multiple InfluxDB 2.0 OSS instances with a central cloud account. This is something that community members have asked for when they have OSS running at different locations, but...

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May 24, 2021

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