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Rick Spencer

Rick is the VP of Products at InfluxData. Rick’s 25 years of experience includes pioneering work on Developer Usability, leading popular Open Source projects, and packaging, delivering and maintaining cloud software. In his previous role as the VP of InfluxData’s Platform team, Rick focused on excellence in Cloud Native Delivery, including CI/CD, high availability, multi-cloud and multi-region deployments, and scale. Currently, Rick resides outside of Washington, DC, where he continues to pursue his interest in developer usability as well as playing with embedded microcontrollers, music, gardening, and video games.

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

By Rick Spencer / Mar 10, 2023 / InfluxDB IOx, Community

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...

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

By Rick Spencer / Nov 02, 2022 / InfluxDB, InfluxDays

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...

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

By Rick Spencer / Jul 02, 2021 / InfluxDB, Community, InfluxDB Cloud, Developer, Tutorial

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...

How to Consolidate OSS Data into a Cloud Account

By Rick Spencer / May 24, 2021 / InfluxDB, Community, InfluxDB Cloud, Developer

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...

Solving Runaway Series Cardinality When Using InfluxDB

By Rick Spencer / Oct 01, 2020 / InfluxDB, Community, Developer

In this post, you’ll learn what causes high series cardinality in a time series database and how to locate and eliminate the culprits. First, for those of you just encountering this concept, let’s define it: The number of unique database, measurement,...

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