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7 Hardware Devices for Edge Computing Projects in 2023
This article was originally published in The New Stack and is reposted here with permission. Edge computing can ensure things keep functioning when reliability is vital and network connectivity can’t be guaranteed. If you’ve been interested in working on an edge...
Don’t Let Time Series Data Break Your Relational Database
This article was originally published in The New Stack and is reposted here with permission. It’s tempting to stuff time series data into the familiar Postgres or MySQL database, but that’s a bad idea for many reasons. To the uninitiated or...
Come See Us at Microsoft Build 2023
Get ready to build, folks. The InfluxData team is heading to Microsoft Build 2023 this month. There are live and virtual components to Microsoft Build, and we prepared live demos for both. We have a booth on-site at the event in...
Metrics, Logs and Traces: More Similar Than They Appear?
This article was originally published in The New Stack and is reposted here with permission. They require different approaches for storage and querying, making it a challenge to use a single solution. But InfluxDB is working to consolidate them into one....
Best Practices to Build IoT Analytics
This article was originally published in The New Stack and is reposted here with permission. Selecting the tools that best fit your IoT data and workloads at the outset will make your job easier and faster in the long run. Today,...
Embracing Observability with InfluxDB 3.0: Unlimited Cardinality and Native SQL Support
As the complexity of modern applications continues to increase, so too does the demand for comprehensive observability solutions. Organizations looking to enhance their applications’ performance, reliability, and scalability need powerful tools that allow them to monitor, analyze, and visualize their infrastructure....
Now Available: The Flight SQL Plugin for Grafana
Today we have exciting news for Grafana customers with Flight SQL data sources: Now there is a new community plugin available for Grafana that allows it to communicate with Flight-SQL-compatible databases. Flight SQL is a client-server protocol developed by the Apache...
A Detailed Guide to Formatting Dates in SQL
In modern software applications, time-stamped data is a common requirement. As a software developer or database administrator, you know that formatting dates is crucial for ensuring data accuracy and consistency. But with so many date formats and SQL engines out there,...
SQL Date Functions: A Detailed Guide
SQL provides a date type that developers can use to store date values. Also, to make working with dates easier, SQL has several date functions for retrieving, formatting, and manipulating dates. In this post, you’ll learn about some SQL date functions...
How to Choose the Right Database in 2023
This article was originally published in The New Stack and is reposted here with permission. Databases are often the biggest performance bottleneck in an application. They are also hard to migrate from once being used in production, so making the right...