InfluxDB and Kafka aren’t competitors – they’re complimentary. Streaming data, and more specifically time series data, travels in high volumes and velocities. Adding InfluxDB to your Kafka cluster provides specialized handling for your time series data. This specialized handling includes real-time queries and analytics, and integration with cutting edge machine learning and artificial intelligence technologies. Companies like as Hulu paired their InfluxDB instances with Kafka.
This month, we were thrilled to welcome SquaredUp customers from all over the world to our in-person workshop in sunny Marlow, UK. It was a wonderful day of learning and sharing ideas, and a unique opportunity for SquaredUp users to meet the people behind the product (us!), network with like-minded customers, and get an exclusive look at the latest product updates. We were excited to showcase our Dashboard Server product roadmap and share our vision for the future of SquaredUp.
A family member’s birthday, that concert you’ve waited all year to see, an impromptu weekend getaway with friends — there are a lot of reasons software engineers might want to switch on-call shifts. And rather than have to frantically send Slack messages to your teammates, wouldn’t it be nice to automate the process and quickly find the coverage you need?
The wait for the latest macOS 14 update is finally over. The newest macOS Sonoma update comes with a plethora of security and privacy features intended to make your computing environment safer. Apple users can now explore new video conferencing features and advanced game mode, enable password and passkey sharing, and so much more. While there’s plenty of excitement that comes with an update like this, it’s important to proceed with caution.
In this post, we’re going to take a close look at IIS (Internet Information Services). We’ll look at what it does and how it works. You’ll learn how to enable it on Windows. And after we’ve established a baseline with managing IIS using the GUI, you’ll see how to work with it using the CLI. Let’s get started!