Rick Spencer is the head of platform at InfluxData, where his responsibilities include leadership of core storage engine, developer tooling and running InfluxDB Cloud 2.0 on Kubernetes in multiple clouds and regions. Rick’s background includes pioneering work on Developer Usability for the first version of Visual Studio.net, and leadership of the Ubuntu project, one of the largest and most active Open Source communities. Currently, Rick resides outside of Washington, DC where, in addition to leading the InfluxData Platform Team, he continues to pursue his interest in developer usability as well as playing with embedded microcontrollers, music, gardening and video games.
Rick Spencer is the head of platform at InfluxData, where his responsibilities include leadership of core storage engine, developer tooling and running InfluxDB Cloud 2.0 on Kubernetes in multiple clouds and regions.
Rick’s background includes pioneering work on Developer Usability for the first version of Visual Studio.net, and leadership of the Ubuntu project, one of the largest and most active Open Source communities.
Currently, Rick resides outside of Washington, DC where, in addition to leading the InfluxData Platform Team, he continues to pursue his interest in developer usability as well as playing with embedded microcontrollers, music, gardening and video games.
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 …
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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, …
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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, …
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In this blog post, I will show you an easy way to use your InfluxDB Cloud account plus a Docker container from my Docker Hub account to easily keep an eye on a set of GitHub repositories using the Template …
This is Part 2 of a four-part series. Read Part 1, Part 3, and Part 4 as well. The IoT scenario Previously, I put together an IoT device (Prototyping IoT with InfluxDB Cloud – Part 1 of this series) and …
IoT Prototyping with InfluxDB Cloud (Part 2): Queries, Tasks and Dashboards Read More »
This is Part 1 of a four-part series. Read Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4 as well. Earlier this week we announced that we are ready for the world to start using InfluxDB Cloud 2.0, the next version of …
The startup where I was working exited through an acquisition, leaving me with some personal choices to make. I could find a role within the tech giant that purchased us and start climbing that corporate ladder, take some time off, …