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Sonia Gupta

Sonia Gupta is currently a software developer in Denver, CO. Prior to becoming a developer, Sonia was a lawyer in Louisiana. She served as a Public Defender in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, then as a Prosecutor, and finally as an Assistant Attorney General doing torts and Civil Rights litigation. Sonia is an outspoken advocate of diversity and inclusion in tech and in life. She is passionate about fostering empathetic and effective communication on engineering teams, and believes that even if tech can't always change the world, technologists absolutely can.

Using the Telegraf Elasticsearch Input Plugin

The Telegraf Elasticsearch plugin is really easy to use, and it can show you a lot of useful information. To begin, let’s get the InfluxDB sandbox up and running as well as an Elasticsearch node that we can populate with some...

Getting Started with InfluxDB 2.0: Scraping Metrics, Running Telegraf, Querying Data, and Writing Data

Now that we’ve released InfluxDB 2.0 Alpha, you’re probably curious to try it but might not know where to start. This post will guide you through the process of getting it running locally on your machine. By the end of this...

InfluxDB: Reorganizing Data with the Pivot Function in Flux

If you’ve been following along with my Flux journey as I implement Flux queries with Rails and GraphQL, you’ll know that I’ve been using train data when implementing various functions in Flux. In order for the GraphQL gem in my Rails...

Using GraphQL with InfluxDB and Flux

In a previous post, we showed you how to make Flux queries in a Rails app. In this post, we’ll extend that knowledge to use GraphQL in a Rails app which leverages the power of Flux to query InfluxDB. This allows...

Making Flux Queries in Rails

Now that we’ve launched Flux, a combination query and scripting language, you’re probably eager to start playing around with it in your apps. We’re in the process of building libraries for a number of languages, but in the meantime, you can...

When Values Align: Why I Joined InfluxData

I’m excited to announce that I’ve joined the InfluxData team as a Developer Advocate! Prior to joining the team I worked as a backend developer, and prior to becoming a developer I practiced law in Southern Louisiana, mostly doing criminal work....

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