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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...
Learning Go with the InfluxDB Go Library
I’m not a Golang developer. Let’s just get that out of the way up front. I’ve developed a few things in Go, but a Go developer I’m not. I sort of need to be, but it hasn’t been essential. I decided...
Eventual Consistency: Anti-Entropy
In this blog series, we’re going to explore eventual consistency, a term that can be hard to define without having all the right vocabulary. This is the consistency model used by many distributed systems, including InfluxDB Enterprise edition. There are two...
OpenMetrics to Join the CNCF
Last Friday, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation announced the acceptance of OpenMetrics, an open source metrics exposition format and evolution of the Prometheus exposition format, into the CNCF Sandbox. The CNCF is an “open source software foundation dedicated to making cloud...
Metrics to Monitor in Your PostgreSQL Database
Overview Last month I wrote a guide on how to monitor your PostgreSQL database using Telegraf and InfluxDB, and though I was able to cover a walkthrough of how to monitor PostgreSQL, I didn’t have a chance to cover what exactly...
Applying Machine Learning Models to InfluxDB with Loud ML & Docker for Time Series Predictions
I love learning about data science. I like to play with various machine learning models to try to understand when to use them, how they work, and how to evaluate them. However, diving head-first into machine learning is intimidating. I wanted...
Tips for New Docker Users
This post has been written to accompany the post “Applying Machine Learning Models to InfluxDB with Loud ML & Docker for Time Series Predictions” for readers who are new to Docker. I tend to start projects with an overly optimistic expectation...
Release Announcement: Chronograf 1.6.1
A new maintenance release for Chronograf is now available: Chronograf 1.6.1 release notes This release includes the following improvements: When importing a dashboard, users now have the ability to reconcile the sources on the dashboard. Text type template variables now update...
InfluxDB Java Client Performance and Functionality Improvements
We made some significant improvements in the performance and functionality of the latest Influxdb-java client. In this blog post, let’s take a closer look at these improvements. Performance Performance is a key feature of any mission-critical system (a Time Series Database...
Measuring Success in Game Development
I’m still on my personal mission to explore and understand the value of metrics as a fundamental part of tech. We’ve entered an age of instrumentation, and I feel like I’ve been left behind. I’ve seen metrics used to monitor complex...