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Distributed Historian Architecture with InfluxDB 3

Oct 14, 2025 By Allyson Boate In InfluxData
From pipelines to warehouses, modern operations generate more distributed data than ever, with equipment and connected devices spread across factories, grids, and remote sites. A single, centralized historian can no longer handle this volume or distribution. Without change, organizations risk fragmented visibility, higher costs, and slower responses.
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UUIDv7 will make it easy to query your PG data! It's also Python Compatible!

Oct 14, 2025 By Aiven In Aiven
AIVEN DATA PLATFORM The Aiven Platform is more than a collection of open source services for streaming, storing and analyzing data. The platform ensures that all services run reliably and securely in the clouds of your choice, are observable, and can easily be integrated with each other and with external 3rd party tools.
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Exploring PostgreSQL 18's new UUIDv7 support

Oct 13, 2025 By Alexander Fridriksson In Aiven
Should you use UUIDs as the primary key in your database? You might have heard they are terrible for performance, which is often true for traditional UUIDv4. However, the introduction of UUIDv7 fixes many of the previous issues of UUIDv4. Let’s therefore explore what they are and why it might be a good idea to use them.
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From Data to Dashboards: Building Streamlit Applications with InfluxDB 3

Oct 10, 2025 By Suyash Joshi In InfluxData
Python developers often reach for Streamlit when they need to construct compelling web applications quickly. It provides a fast way to transform Python scripts into interactive applications without complex web frameworks. When paired with InfluxDB 3 Core, the leading time series database, engineers can build powerful real-time analytics dashboards entirely in Python.
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Kafka's 80% Problem

Oct 8, 2025 By Filip Yonov In Aiven
Kafka is too expensive and complex for 80% of users. Most Kafka usage is small-data - ~60% of clusters are sub-1 MB/s, yet teams pay big-data prices. Diskless (KIP-1150), Tiered, and Iceberg topics give Apache Kafka multiple storage classes, but they’re advanced storage primitives. They are powerful in the hands of seasoned platform teams but too complex for beginners.
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How Technology Improves Commercial HVAC Efficiency

How Technology Improves Commercial HVAC Efficiency

Oct 5, 2025 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Efficient heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems are important for maintaining comfortable, healthy, and cost-effective commercial spaces. As energy costs rise and environmental concerns grow, businesses are increasingly looking for innovative ways to optimize their HVAC operations. Technological advancements are transforming how systems are monitored, controlled, and maintained, resulting in improved performance and lower operating costs.
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Inside the InfluxDB 3 Plugin Ecosystem

Oct 2, 2025 By Allyson Boate In InfluxData
Companies today face growing pressure to manage and analyze massive flows of time series data, from IoT sensors to cloud-native infrastructure. Storing this information is relatively straightforward. The greater obstacle is keeping it useful and consistent while balancing a wide range of tools and modern technology platforms that continue to evolve.
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OpsHelm goes multi-cloud with Aiven Diskless BYOC, cuts costs by 78% over MSK

Oct 2, 2025 By Filip Yonov In Aiven
In under a month, OpsHelm the continuous, enriched changelog for cloud infrastructure - migrated its streaming backbone from MSK and NATS to Aiven Diskless Kafka (BYOC on AWS). The switch eliminated cross-cloud networking fees, collapsed multiple storage layers into one, and cut total streaming costs by 5x (from >$50,000/year to <$10,000/year) while serving the team a single logical event bus that stretches across multiple regions and accounts.
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