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InfluxDB and Elementary School Science Fairs
I’m a proud father of an incredibly smart, talented, kind, and just all-around great 9 year-old daughter. Since she first learned to talk, she has been a “questioner,” curious about the world around her and how everything connects (you know, the...
TL;DR InfluxDB Tech Tips: Handling JSON Objects and Mapping Through Arrays
There are multiple ways to use Flux to bring in data from a variety of different sources including SQL databases, other InfluxDB Cloud Accounts, Annotated CSV from a URL, and JSON. However, previously you could only manually construct tables from a...
See You at KubeCon EU 2022
Get ready for KubeCon EU 2022 as InfluxData gears up to attend the event at the Feria Valencia, May 18-20. Visit our team at booth G6 (#S46) to learn more about Kubernetes, InfluxDB, and application development. We’d love to hear any...
Python MQTT Tutorial: Store IoT Metrics with InfluxDB
This article was written by Alexandre Couëdelo and was first published in The New Stack. Scroll down for the author’s bio and photo. MQTT is a standard messaging protocol used for the Internet of Things (IoT) because it requires minimal resources and can be...
TL;DR InfluxDB Tech Tips: From TICKscripts to Flux Tasks
If you’re a 1.x user of InfluxDB, you might be a Kapacitor user as well. If so, you’re also familiar with TICKscripts, the data processing and transformation language for Kapacitor, the batch and stream processor for InfluxDB. Kapacitor is a great...
MQTT vs Kafka: An IoT Advocate’s Perspective (Part 2 – Kafka the Mighty)
In Part 1 of this series, we started to compare the uses of Kafka and MQTT within an IoT infrastructure. It was concluded that in a basic publish-and-subscribe model of an IoT device, Kafka might simply be overkill. However, we also...
MQTT vs Kafka: An IoT Advocate's Perspective (Part 1 - The Basics)
With the Kafka Summit fast approaching, I thought it was time to get my hands dirty and see what it’s all about. As an advocate for IoT, I heard about Kafka but was too embedded in protocols like MQTT to investigate...
Come See Us at Kafka Summit London 2022
Get ready, because InfluxData and the InfluxDB maintainer team are preparing for Kafka Summit London 2022, April 25 – 26, and we want to see you there. You can find us at booth G6, where our team will be available to...
Using Google Workspace Data for Security Observability
This article was originally published in The New Stack. Keeping your systems secure is a never-ending challenge. Not only is it necessary to monitor and secure your own tech stack, but each new service a company uses creates another potential avenue...
Managing Time Series Data in Industrial IoT
Thsi article was originally published in The New Stack. Posted here with permission. The industrial revolution was a watershed period in human history. The shift from piecemeal, cottage-industry work to mechanized manufacturing transformed the way humans work. Since the 18th century,...