Flipping the Sales Script: How to break biases and diversify sales teams
This article was originally published in TechCrunch and is reposted here with permission. Technology leaders don’t like to admit it, but sales has a perception problem that deters many fabulous candidates – especially women and minorities – from pursuing careers in...
Outer Joins in Flux
Joins are a common transformation in any query language, and as part of the effort to make Flux an increasingly valuable tool for our users, the engineers on InfluxData’s query team created, and continue to maintain, two separate join functions. And...
Introduction to Cloud Native
This article was written by Savan Kharod. Scroll down for the author’s bio and photo. User experience is the pinnacle of cloud technology. With cloud data centers handling 94 percent of all workloads, cloud optimization is vital. Users need fast, agile,...
July Monthly Product Update – New Resources to Get Started with InfluxDB and Go
We love to write and ship code to help developers bring their ideas and projects to life. That’s why we’re constantly working on improving our product to meet developers wherever they are, to ensure their happiness, and accelerate Time to Awesome....
It’s BBQ Season! How Pit Bosses Use InfluxDB to Avoid the Stall
If you’re ever in Dallas or Kansas City (or really any foodie city) and feel like having a spirited debate, just ask who does BBQ best. Having lived in Texas for most of my life, I can confidently say Texans take...
Quick Start: Telegraf’s Starlark Processor Plugin
This article was written by Dr. Phill West. Scroll down for the author’s photo and bio. After a mortgage payment, energy costs are typically the largest household expense. In my case it was an easy decision to install solar panels, but...
Gotion Uses InfluxDB to Manage Battery Data for Electric Vehicles
As the world shifts to become greener and more sustainable, battery technology is of the utmost importance. Safe and efficient batteries drive environmentally friendly electric vehicles. Battery Management Systems (BMS) monitor batteries to give drivers information on battery status and mileage,...
Kubernetes on the Edge: Getting Started with KubeEdge and Kubernetes for Edge Computing
Developers are always trying to improve the reliability and performance of their software, while at the same time reducing their own costs when possible. One way to accomplish this is edge computing and it’s gaining rapid adoption across industries. According to...
MQTT topic parsing, SNMP trap plugin, and SQL Server input improvements with Telegraf 1.23.3
This new maintenance release for Telegraf is available now. Telegraf 1.23.3 — Release Notes Common Cookie common plugin now uses reader over readcloser and regenerates cookie-jar during reauthentication. Input plugin updates OpenStack Input The OpenStack plugin now uses the v3 volume...
Real-Time Energy Management with InfluxDB and eSoftLink IoT Platform
Smart energy IoT platforms are empowering consumers to track energy usage and even control spend based on their next bill’s forecast. Yet eSoftThings, a specialist in the Internet of Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI), set out to push smart energy...