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First Contact Day
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
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
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
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!
<figcaption> InfluxData CEO Evan Kaplan at InfluxDays NYC 2019</figcaption> 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
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
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
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
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
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...