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Getting Started with C++ and InfluxDB

While relational database management systems (RDBMS) are efficient with storing tables, columns, and primary keys in a spreadsheet architecture, they become inefficient when there’s a lot of data input received over a long period of time. Databases designed specifically to store time series data are known as time series databases (TSDB). For example, an RDBMS might look like this.

Your Clients Financial Real-Time Data: Five Factors to Keep in Mind

Real-time data is where information is collected, immediately processed, and then delivered to users to make informed decisions at the moment. Health and fitness wearables such as Fitbits are a prime example of monitoring stats such as heart rate and the number of steps in real-time. These numbers enable both users and health professionals to identify any results, existing or potential risks, without delay.

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 is always to deliver faster Time to Awesome™ for our users. To this end, we’re excited to announce the launch of InfluxDB University.

How to monitor your Apache Spark cluster with Grafana Cloud

Here at Grafana Labs, when we’re building integrations for Grafana Cloud, we’re often thinking about how to help users get started on their observability journey. We like to focus some of our attention on the different technologies you might come across along the way. That way, we can share our tips on the best ways to interact with them while you’re using Grafana Labs products.

Anodot Webinar: Best Practices for Building a Stable Data Pipeline in Telecom

As telcos make key strategic pivots this year in the areas of fixed broadband, 5G, and virtualization/ cloudification of the network, a common unifying initiative is the automation of the network. There are many competing definitions and visions of how we can understand this, but the fundamental, immutable fact is that automation depends on good quality real-time data. Stable, reliable, and cost-effective data pipelines are now an absolute prerequisite for real-time automation tasks like anomaly detection, forecasting, recommendation, remediation, etc.

Better search can help government serve people when they need it most

As citizens, we interact with the government at various points in our lives. Many interactions serve as important rites of passage like obtaining a marriage or business license, claiming a new dependent on a tax return, or filing for retirement benefits. Other interactions serve as a safety net like obtaining financial assistance after a disaster or reporting a scam attempt. No matter the reason for transacting with the government, citizens want the interaction to be as frictionless as possible.

InfluxData Launches InfluxDB University

Live and on-demand trainings simplify application building for faster Time to Awesome™ SAN FRANCISCO – March 9, 2022 – InfluxData, creator of the leading time series platform InfluxDB, today announced the launch of InfluxDB University (InfluxDB U), an online education platform for customers and developers working with time series data.

Elastic Enterprise Search 8.1: Enhanced web crawling and SharePoint on-prem connectivity

The 8.1 release of Elastic Enterprise Search features faster and more efficient content ingestion with the latest enhancements to the Elastic web crawler, with additional troubleshooting capabilities as well. This release also features the addition of SharePoint Server to our library of prebuilt connectors to enable aggregation of on-premises SharePoint Server content into Elastic for seamless search.

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 regular writes from multiple different streams, and you want to write a task to downsample a measurement from that bucket into another bucket.

Apache Kafka made simple

Aiven’s fully managed data solutions take the pain out of getting your Apache Kafka® clusters up and running. Everything is already set up for you. Just select the services and tools you need, pick a cloud provider and your storage needs, and you’re good to go. You can deploy Kafka and everything else you need in under 10 minutes. We offer rock solid, reliable, open source data infra – with no hidden costs.