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Hiding Complexity with Custom Functions: Calculating Heat Index
Have you ever watched the local weather or The Weather Channel and heard them announce the temperature, and then the “Heat Index”? Or how hot it feels outside? At least here in the United States, and especially in the South, it’s...
Writing Data to InfluxDB with Python
One of the questions we see fairly often from Python developers who are using InfluxDB is how to improve the write performance of programs which use the InfluxDB client library. Usually they’re trying to import or transfer large amounts of data...
The Algorithm That Ties Together Google Maps and InfluxData's Giraffe
One of the best parts about being a developer advocate is being able to share the developer’s work with the community. Working at InfluxData also means the code, projects or ideas that I blog about come from exceptional engineers who, like...
Reproducing a Flaky Test in Go
Oftentimes, a test that occasionally fails in CI can be reproduced locally with a simple go test -count=N ./path/to/flaky/package… but once in a while, it just doesn’t repro locally. Or maybe the full test suite for that package takes too long,...
InfluxDB 2 Migration Path: Instrumentation
InfluxDB 2 and our SaaS offering, InfluxDB Cloud 2, are right around the corner. While we’re finalizing the last of our wonderful updates to give you the InfluxDB 2 experience you deserve, we’re going to talk to you about migration paths....
InfluxDB and Kafka: How InfluxData Uses Kafka in Production
Following CTO Paul Dix’s original release announcement for InfluxDB 2.0 and a new release of InfluxDB Cloud 2.0 to public beta, I thought the community would be interested in learning about how InfluxData provides a multi-tenanted, horizontally scalable time series storage....
InfluxDB and Kafka: How Companies are Integrating the Two
As Kafka and time series databases gain popularity, it becomes increasingly valuable to understand how they are paired together to provide robust real-time data pipeline solutions. As the saying goes, the whole pipeline is greater than the sum of the Kafka...
IT Monitoring in the Era of Containers: Tapping into eBPF Observability
Article by Daniella Pontes and Luca Deri Containers are a game-changer for everyone. An abstraction between the infrastructure and the application layers, containers are a group play and concern IT system engineers, Ops, NetOps and DevOps. However, professionals in different roles...
Running InfluxDB on AWS with Cloud Formation
Coding bootcamps are great. I learned a lot, and it enabled me to land a Developer Advocacy role. However, despite an extensive curriculum and excellent instructors, I still came out lacking a lot of basic knowledge. I took a Data Science...
Using Time Series for Application Performance Monitoring to Win at the Flight E-ticket Sales Game
One of the best ways to demonstrate the value of application performance monitoring (APM) and its relation to time series data is through a real-world success story. Here we introduce the application performance monitoring solution used by Web Shop Fly, a...