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The Growth of an Open Source Community
I’ve done this before for another Open Source project I was working on, but I find it so fascinating to watch that I had to do it for Telegraf. Have you ever wondered what it would look like to see an Open...
Why Use K-Means for Time Series Data? (Part Three)
In Part One of this series, I give an overview of how to use different statistical functions and K-Means Clustering for anomaly detection for time series data. In Part Two, I share some code showing how to apply K-means to time...
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...
Chronograf 1.7 Released: Flux Query Builder, Predefined Dashboards, and Scoped Annotations
One of the most powerful things about working at InfluxData is the amazing open source community that is constantly using our software in new and exciting ways. With the latest release of Chronograf, we took a look at what our users...
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...
When Values Align: Why I Joined InfluxData
I’m excited to announce that I’ve joined the InfluxData team as a Developer Advocate! Prior to joining the team I worked as a backend developer, and prior to becoming a developer I practiced law in Southern Louisiana, mostly doing criminal work....
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...
Working with Irregular Time Series
One of the benefits of InfluxDB is the ability to store raw events, which might come in at varying intervals, as an irregular time series. However, irregular time series present some unique challenges, and in some cases common operations on the...
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...