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Python Time Module: A How-To Guide
This post was written by Keshav Malik. Scroll down for the author’s bio. The Python time module is a powerful tool for working with times and dates in both simple and complex ways, allowing you to easily manipulate dates, format strings,...
How to Get the Current Date and Time in SQL
This article was written by Pius Aboyi. Scroll down for the author’s bio. SQL databases have several functions that reduce the complexity of working with date and time. Using these functions and a date and time type column, you can depend...
What Is eBPF? An Introductory Guide
This post was written by Suleiman Abubakar Sadeeq. Scroll down to view the author’s bio. It’s sometimes necessary to modify the core of an OS — for example, to create more flexibility or allow custom code to run on the OS....
Using Deduplication for Eventually Consistent Transactions
This article was originally published in InfoWorld and is reposted here with permission. Deduplication is an effective alternative to transactions for eventually consistent use cases of a distributed database. Here’s why. Building a distributed database is complicated and needs to consider...
InfluxDB SQL Queries with Python
Recently InfluxData announced SQL support in InfluxDB Cloud, powered by IOx. Users can now use familiar SQL queries to explore and analyze their time series data. The SQL support was introduced along with the usage of Apache Arrow. Apache Arrow is...
Getting Started with Apache Kafka and InfluxDB
This article was written by Aykut Bulgu. Scroll down to view his bio and picture. The number of applications and services increases every day as more application architectures move towards microservices or serverless structures. You can process this increasing amount of...
Rust Object Store Donation
Today we are happy to officially announce that InfluxData has donated a generic object store implementation to the Apache Arrow project. Using this crate, the same code can easily interact with AWS S3, Azure Blob Storage, Google Cloud Storage, local files,...
TL;DR Python Client Library
InfluxDB has over a dozen different client libraries to help developers work with time series data in whatever programming language they like best. The Python client library is one of our most popular options. It’s simple to learn, and working with...
Outer Joins in Flux
Joins are a common transformation in any query language, and as part of the effort to make Flux an increasingly valuable tool for our users, the engineers on InfluxData’s query team created, and continue to maintain, two separate join functions. And...
Introduction to Cloud Native
This article was written by Savan Kharod. Scroll down for the author’s bio and photo. User experience is the pinnacle of cloud technology. With cloud data centers handling 94 percent of all workloads, cloud optimization is vital. Users need fast, agile,...