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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....
Flux Office Hours Scheduled and More Flux Blog Posts Coming Soon
Flux is InfluxData’s new functional data scripting language designed for querying, analyzing, and interacting with data. We recently launched Flux(0.7) as part of the InfluxDB 1.7 and Chronograf 1.7 released last week. The developers who attended last week’s InfluxDays event in...
Flux 0.7 Technical Preview
As part of the release of InfluxDB 1.7, we have provided integrated access to a technical preview of Flux. If you haven’t been keeping up with what we are up to, Flux is InfluxData’s new functional data scripting language designed for...
InfluxData Roadshows Coming to Europe This December
InfluxData Roadshows are coming to Europe this December! Our recent roadshows held in several US cities were very well-received. Based on their tremendous success, we’re hitting 3 European citiesMunich, Berlin and Amsterdamall in the first week of December 2018. Many of...
Introducing Developer Support from InfluxData
InfluxData is singularly focused on building the best time series data platform. Our purpose-built stack for metrics and events is becoming the de facto solution for ingesting, querying and processing time series data. As a company, we have always focused on...
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...
Get One-Click Access to InfluxData Time Series Platform on Google Cloud
InfluxData today announced it is newly listed on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Marketplace, which offers ready-to-go development stacks, solutions, and services to accelerate development. Now Google Cloud users have one-click access to the industry’s leading Time Series Platform for collection...
Easily Gather, Store and Analyze IoT Data in Google Cloud IoT Using Telegraf
Today we announced the integration of InfluxData’s Telegraf with Google Cloud IoTa complete set of tools to connect, process, store, and analyze data both at the edge and in the cloud. This integration accelerates Time to Awesome for Google Cloud IoT...
Get Hackaday-ing
If you’re a hardware hacker, or know a hardware hacker, you’ve no doubt heard of Hackaday.com. They always have super interesting content on hacks, projects, and you can even buy some cool boards, tools, and swag. But that’s not why I’m...
Simplifying InfluxDB: Retention Policy Best Practices
Retention policies can often be tricky even at the best of times but when you’re dealing with time series data, setting up the appropriate retention policy to automatically expire (delete) unnecessary data can save you loads of time in the long...