Blog – InfluxData

Flipping the Sales Script: How to break biases and diversify sales teams

Arwa Kaddoura — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 07:00:00 +0000

This article was originally published in TechCrunch and is reposted here with permission. Technology leaders don’t like to admit it, but sales has a perception problem that deters many fabulous candidates – especially women and minorities – from pursuing careers in...

How to Get More Women in Open Source

Samantha Wang — Wed, 13 Oct 2021 04:00:57 -0700

The technology sector at large struggles to attract and retain women but in open-source communities, the situation is considerably worse. Some estimate that just 6% of GitHub contributors are women. On the occasion of Ada Lovelace Day, the annual celebration of...

Industry 4.0 Defined and Explained

Brian Gilmore — Tue, 21 Sep 2021 04:00:31 -0700

With Industry 4.0 fundamentally transforming manufacturing systems and processes through IIoT technologies, manufacturers large and small are seeking the most efficient ways to reap its benefits. Potential gains include optimizing operations, generating data-driven insight, creating new revenue streams, and accelerating innovation....

Meet the InfluxData Summer 2021 Interns

Pat Gaughen — Mon, 12 Jul 2021 02:00:34 -0700

With the 2021 InfluxData internship program in full swing, we wanted to take a moment to introduce the wonderful people that are joining us for a summer of work and fun. Sara Ghodsi Sara joins us from North Carolina State University...

Announcement: InfluxDays EMEA 2021 Speaker Lineup

Caitlin Croft — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 04:00:19 -0700

It’s now time to announce our exciting speaker lineup for InfluxDays EMEA 2021 Virtual Experience! We can’t wait to see the entire #InfluxDB community on May 18-19, 2021. RSVP today for this free event! InfluxDays is an event focused on the...

Stargazers and Trailblazers: It's Pi Day!

Emily Kurze — Fri, 12 Mar 2021 04:00:24 -0700

Pi Day is coming in two days on March 14! If you were hoping for a secret family pie recipe, I’m sorry to disappoint you. Sadly, I come from a family tree of terrible bakers who are too impatient to read...

Announcement: Register for InfluxDays EMEA 2021

Caitlin Croft — Thu, 18 Feb 2021 04:00:20 -0700

We’re excited to announce that registration for InfluxDays EMEA 2021 Virtual Experience is open! We can’t wait to see the entire #InfluxDB community on May 18-19, 2021. RSVP today for this free event! InfluxDays is an event focused on the impact...

Join Us for InfluxDays North America 2020

Caitlin Croft — Tue, 27 Oct 2020 05:10:59 -0700

InfluxDays North America 2020 Virtual Experience is just around the corner! Our annual conference is being held on November 10-11, 2020 and we’re super-excited to welcome back the entire InfluxDB community. The conference will be conducted over Zoom and Slack. Click...

Welcoming InfluxData's 2020 Interns

Adam Anthony — Tue, 02 Jun 2020 07:00:00 -0700

InfluxData has a history of hiring talented students into summer internships. We started hiring interns for software development in 2016 when we decided to hire some very talented students who were referred by full-time team members. At the time, we had...

Happy Towel Day

John Corrigan — Mon, 25 May 2020 08:00:04 -0700

May 25th marks an important day for fans of the legendary author Douglas Adams, famed for his The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy “trilogy” (of 5 books), along with numerous other novels, radio and stage plays, feature films and games, and...

First Contact Day

Caitlin Croft — Sun, 05 Apr 2020 09:00:29 -0700

In “Star Trek: First Contact,” the USS Enterprise-E and her crew are sent through a temporal vortex in an attempt to stop the Borg from preventing the human civilization’s first warp flight, which leads to the first contact with an extraterrestrial...

Slack Tips for Remote Communication

David Flanagan — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 07:00:26 -0700

As the world is now forced into remote working due to COVID-19, I believe it’s important to make some things explicit that have been implicit for many a remote worker over the past few years with the rise of Slack in...

Why I Joined InfluxDB - Rick Spencer

Rick Spencer — Thu, 05 Sep 2019 10:09:59 -0700

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, found...

Why I Joined InfluxData - Thom Crowe

Thom Crowe — Tue, 11 Jun 2019 08:00:13 -0700

Hey there, I’m Thom Crowe, Community Manager here at InfluxData. I’m new to the team, and one thing new employees are asked to do is introduce themselves and share why they joined, so here goes. I started working in digital marketing...

InfluxDays 2019 NYC, Another Hit!

Thom Crowe — Mon, 08 Apr 2019 08:00:00 -0700

InfluxData CEO Evan Kaplan at InfluxDays NYC 2019

InfluxDays NYC was my first InfluxDays, and to say I was impressed would be an understatement. After spending two days with community members and hearing about how they’re using our products coupled...

Introducing Our New InfluxData Community Slack Workspace

Thom Crowe — Wed, 03 Apr 2019 08:00:20 -0700

We’re thrilled to announce that, starting today, we have a public Influx Community Slack workspace to continue our commitment to building both great open source projects and a strong community. With the new Slack workspace comes yet another opportunity for our...

AWS Intends for Their New Project to be an Elasticsearch Fork

Paul Dix — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 06:27:41 -0700

Yesterday Amazon (AWS) unveiled Open Distro for Elasticsearch in a blog post along with its own companion site. In another blog post titled Keeping Open Source Open they make an argument for the motivation behind the project and the desire to...

Speakers and Agenda Finalized for InfluxDays NYC 2019

Company — Fri, 01 Mar 2019 13:10:13 -0700

InfluxDays NYC 2019 the world’s most comprehensive technical conference focused on time series data is coming to New York on March 13-14, and we’ve just announced the final lineup of speakers. The event will feature keynotes and discussions with IT leaders...

Why I Joined InfluxData - Jim Walsh

Jim Walsh — Thu, 17 Jan 2019 06:00:22 -0700

It’s a tradition for new employees at InfluxData to write a blog post on why they joined. This will probably be the easiest post I write all year. I’m Jim Walsh. I joined InfluxData as SVP of Engineering, enabling the co-founder...

It's Meant to Be: Why I Joined InfluxData

Will Paulus — Thu, 17 Jan 2019 06:00:10 -0700

Full disclosure, I was one day away from signing another offer when I first met with Evan Kaplan, the CEO of InfluxData. However, after that conversation, I was so inspired by the combination of product, people, culture, and opportunity that I...

Copyleft and community licenses are not without merit, but they are a dead end

Paul Dix — Fri, 21 Dec 2018 09:24:35 -0700

Last Friday Confluent announced that they would be changing the license on some portions of their platform from Apache2 to The Confluent Community License. This comes on the heels of AWS’ recent launch at Re:Invent 2018 of a managed Kafka service....

Rust can be difficult to learn and frustrating, but it's also the most exciting thing in software development in a long time

Paul Dix — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 11:45:16 -0700

I recently decided to put serious effort into learning the Rust programming language. I saw it coming up frequently in interesting projects (e.g. ripgrep) and kept hearing good things about it. My hesitation to picking up Rust since its 1.0 release...

It's Time for the Open Source Community to Get Real

Paul Dix — Wed, 22 Aug 2018 14:03:23 -0700

Like many open source developers, I’ve been reading the commentary around Redis Common Clause Licensing with great interest (HN thread). The gist of it is that work on certain enterprise modules for Redis that are developed by RedisLabs will be licensed...

Will GDPR Pressure SaaS Vendors to Go On-Prem?

Chris Churilo — Wed, 20 Jun 2018 10:24:52 -0700

There has been a mad scramble to get data practices in order before and since the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) took effect May 25. The intent behind GDPR seems like a reasonable set of regulations to protect the user. However,...

The Eclipse IoT Developer Survey Results Are In!

David G. Simmons — Thu, 19 Apr 2018 09:00:45 -0700

For those that don’t know, InfluxData has been a member of the Eclipse Foundation since late last year. We joined because it turned out that a few of the Eclipse IoT Projects were already based on, or used as their underlying...

Why I Joined InfluxData - Jacob Marble

Jacob Marble — Wed, 28 Mar 2018 06:00:27 -0700

My name is Jacob Marble, and I’m a new Influxer. In my short career as a software engineer, I’ve worked for both BigCo and Startup, and learned volumes from each. BigCo likes systems, processes, standards, tests, specialists, chain-of-command. Startup likes nimble,...

Monitoring Application Performance on the Frontend in the Age of Impatience

Margo Schaedel — Tue, 20 Feb 2018 13:26:40 -0700

Keep Your Users Happy and Monitor Your Performance Monitoring application performance in the browser is often overlooked or ignored until an actual problem arises. We prioritize server-side monitoring and collecting metrics on all our different databases, but often let tracking of...

MySQL Metrics Part I: Throughput

Katy Farmer — Thu, 11 Jan 2018 09:13:01 -0700

In a perfect world, this blog post is about MySQL metrics and monitoring throughput in MySQL. In reality, this post is about understanding data visualizations, querying appropriately, and failing constantlyas a byproduct, I’m also monitoring throughput in MySQL. Let’s get started....

How Ruby Brought Me to InfluxData

Katy Farmer — Wed, 27 Dec 2017 13:48:45 -0700

All new InfluxData team members write a “Why I Came to InfluxData” blog post. I was supposed to write it a month ago when I started, but there’s so much to learn here about the products and the amazing community that...

ThingMonk 2017: Insight and Learning on IoT

David G. Simmons — Fri, 20 Oct 2017 09:06:53 -0700

Back in September, I attended the ThingMonk Conference in London. Here is a brief overview of what I learned and some of the insight I gleaned from the conference. The ThingMonk 2017 videos are starting to drop if you want to...

Release Announcement: Telegraf 1.4.2

Tim Hall — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 15:43:48 -0700

A maintenance release for Telegraf is now available: Telegraf 1.4.2 – release notes...