DZone | Red Flags of High Cardinality in Databases
Publication: DZone Title: Red Flags of High Cardinality in Databases Author: Katy Farmer Abstract: In this DZone article, InfluxData DevRel Katy Farmer discusses the concept of cardinality in databases. She starts by acknowledging the concept’s difficulty and providing an overview of what...
Hiding Complexity with Custom Functions: Calculating Heat Index
Have you ever watched the local weather or The Weather Channel and heard them announce the temperature, and then the “Heat Index”? Or how hot it feels outside? At least here in the United States, and especially in the South, it’s...
Writing Data to InfluxDB with Python
One of the questions we see fairly often from Python developers who are using InfluxDB is how to improve the write performance of programs which use the InfluxDB client library. Usually they’re trying to import or transfer large amounts of data...
Aquicore Seeks to Enhance Their Customers' Competitive Advantage by Improving LEED and ENERGY STAR Recognitions
Aquicore provides their commercial real estate (CRE) customers with a platform that allows them to track, analyze and predict building and energy data. Through their cloud-based solution, Aquicore’s clients have access to their IoT-driven smart asset platform. It’s easy to get...
The Customer Support Podcast | Episode 14: (B2B) Manny Ruiz, VP Success & Support
Publication: The Customer Support Podcast Title: Episode 14: (B2B) Manny Ruiz, VP Success & Support Author: Sandeep Jain (host) Abstract: The Customer Support Podcast, in its 14th episode, features Manny Ruiz, VP success & support at InfluxData. Ruiz provides key insights from...
The Algorithm That Ties Together Google Maps and InfluxData's Giraffe
One of the best parts about being a developer advocate is being able to share the developer’s work with the community. Working at InfluxData also means the code, projects or ideas that I blog about come from exceptional engineers who, like...
How to Output Data from Flux to MQTT Natively
Writing data from InfluxDB to MQTT using Flux I started using the Open Source (OSS) version of InfluxDB v2.0 very early on in the Alpha releases. Even in the early releases, I was very enamored with the way things were shaping...
Reproducing a Flaky Test in Go
Oftentimes, a test that occasionally fails in CI can be reproduced locally with a simple go test -count=N ./path/to/flaky/package… but once in a while, it just doesn’t repro locally. Or maybe the full test suite for that package takes too long,...
InfluxDB 2 Migration Path: Instrumentation
InfluxDB 2 and our SaaS offering, InfluxDB Cloud 2, are right around the corner. While we’re finalizing the last of our wonderful updates to give you the InfluxDB 2 experience you deserve, we’re going to talk to you about migration paths....
Release Announcement: InfluxDB 2.0.0 Alpha 17
A new release of InfluxDB 2.0 Alpha is available now. As described in our CTO Paul Dix’s original release announcement for InfluxDB 2.0, we will be shipping regular updates as we add new features and fix issues. Please keep in mind...