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