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Building a Simple, Pure-Rust, Async Apache Kafka Client
This article was originally published in The New Stack. For InfluxDB IOx, the future core of InfluxDB, we use Apache Kafka to sequence data: Up until now, we have relied on rust-rdkafka, which provides async binding for librdkafka, which in turn is written in C. So why...
Using InfluxDB as an IoT Edge Historian
InfluxDB is increasingly being used in IoT solutions to store data from connected devices. Now it can also be used on IoT edge gateways as a data historian to analyze, visualize and eventually transmit aggregated IoT data up to a centralized...
Start with Python and InfluxDB
This article was written by Pravin Rahul Banerjee and was originally published by The New Stack. Scroll down for the author’s photo and bio. Although time series data can be stored in a MySQL or PostgreSQL database, that’s not particularly efficient....
Getting Started with C++ and InfluxDB
This article was written by Pravin Kumar Sinha and was originally published by The New Stack. Scroll down for the author’s bio. While relational database management systems (RDBMS) are efficient with storing tables, columns, and primary keys in a spreadsheet architecture,...
Telegraf Release Candidates, Nightlies, & Test Artifacts
Since 2016, the Telegraf project has released 22 minor releases, 48 release candidates, and 79 bug fix releases. Based on feedback from the community and a desire to improve the overall process, the Telegraf team will discontinue the creation of release...
Class is in Session - Announcing InfluxDB University
At InfluxData, it’s no surprise that we are passionate about time series data. Our team is committed to helping our community understand its capabilities and sharing easier and more efficient ways of working with InfluxDB, Telegraf and Flux. Our end goal...
Women in Open Source – An InfluxData Round Table for International Women's Day
It’s no secret that the number of men working in tech far exceeds the number of women doing the same. In the open source community, the number of women contributing to open source projects is even smaller. At least one recent...
Using the New Flux "types" Package
As a strictly typed language, Flux protects you from a lot of potential runtime failures. However, if you don’t know the column types on the data you’re querying, you might encounter some annoying errors. Suppose you have a bucket that receives...
Using Rustlang's Async Tokio Runtime for CPU-Bound Tasks
This article was originally published in The New Stack on January 14, 2022 and is being republished here with permission. Despite the term async and its association with asynchronous network I/O, this blog post argues that the Tokio runtime at the heart of...
Revisiting The Things Network: Connecting The Things Network V3 to InfluxDB
Back in 2019, David Simmons created an awesome blog introducing LoRaWAN devices and The Things Network. He also showed you how easy it was to connect The Things Network V2 to InfluxDB. Since then, a few things have changed and I...