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TICK Stack Update: InfluxDB Release Candidate, Kapacitor & Chronograf v0.10
We are excited to announce several new releases today to the TICK stack, Kapacitor and Chronograf v0.10! What’s the TICK stack? The TICK stack is the first purpose-built, end-to-end solution for collecting, storing, visualizing and alerting on time-series data at scale....
Please Vote: All-Day InfluxDB Training Date
If you are a developer in the Bay Area interested in leveling up your InfluxDB knowledge, read on… We will be putting on an all-day training event here at the SF offices and need help deciding whether to hold it on...
My Renewed Focus - Paul Dix
Today I’m excited to announce that Evan Kaplan is joining InfluxData as our new CEO. Evan has a post that tells his story and why he’s excited to be joining us. I wanted to write this post to talk about why...
My Journey to InfluxData - Evan Kaplan
Last week was my first week at InfluxData’s headquarters in San Francisco. 150 Spear is the second office I have visited during the short time I have been working with Paul and Todd (our founders) and the InfluxData team. It’s a...
InfluxDB Week in Review - Dec 18, 2015
In this post we’ll recap the most interesting InfluxDB related content you may have missed in the last two weeks or so. Blogs, Articles, Docs and How-Tos InfluxDB the Company is Now InfluxData Announcing InfluxDB v0.9.6 - Updates to the TSM...
Announcing the InfluxDB Slack Channel
With the recent blog on contributing to InfluxDB, we have seen a significant increase in community pull requests! To make sure that we are supporting the community as much as possible, we will now be active on the #influxdb channel on...
Do You Want to Be an Open Source Developer?
Since joining the InfluxDB core engineering team eleven months ago, I’ve been asked several times what it is like being an open source developer, and if it would be something they (the person asking) would enjoy. The only way I have...
Make your mark on the InfluxDB source
InfluxDB is an open-source project, and we rely heavily on the community when it comes to development. Bug reports, performance numbers, and helping each other, as we iterate on the software, are all very helpful. In fact, it is in these...
Hacktoberfest - Pull Requests Equal T-Shirts
We are excited to be one of the featured open source projects in this month’s DigitalOcean & GitHub Hacktoberfest! What's Hacktoberfest? Hacktoberfest is a month-long event sponsored by DigitalOcean in partnership with GitHub, encouraging people to contribute to GitHub-hosted open source...
Java is the COBOL of my generation and Go is its successor (and other reflections after GopherCon)
Last week I attended GopherCon in Denver, the first ever Golang conference. There were fantastic talks on Go and various projects, but for me the most exciting thing about the conference was meeting enthusiastic people in this nascent developer community. I...