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Introducing Our New InfluxData Community Slack Workspace
We’re thrilled to announce that, starting today, we have a public Influx Community Slack workspace to continue our commitment to building both great open source projects and a strong community. With the new Slack workspace comes yet another opportunity for our...
AWS Intends for Their New Project to be an Elasticsearch Fork
Yesterday Amazon (AWS) unveiled Open Distro for Elasticsearch in a blog post along with its own companion site. In another blog post titled Keeping Open Source Open they make an argument for the motivation behind the project and the desire to...
Speakers and Agenda Finalized for InfluxDays NYC 2019
InfluxDays NYC 2019 the world’s most comprehensive technical conference focused on time series data is coming to New York on March 13-14, and we’ve just announced the final lineup of speakers. The event will feature keynotes and discussions with IT leaders...
Why I Joined InfluxData - Jim Walsh
It’s a tradition for new employees at InfluxData to write a blog post on why they joined. This will probably be the easiest post I write all year. I’m Jim Walsh. I joined InfluxData as SVP of Engineering, enabling the co-founder...
It's Meant to Be: Why I Joined InfluxData
Full disclosure, I was one day away from signing another offer when I first met with Evan Kaplan, the CEO of InfluxData. However, after that conversation, I was so inspired by the combination of product, people, culture, and opportunity that I...
Copyleft and community licenses are not without merit, but they are a dead end
Last Friday Confluent announced that they would be changing the license on some portions of their platform from Apache2 to The Confluent Community License. This comes on the heels of AWS’ recent launch at Re:Invent 2018 of a managed Kafka service....
It's Time for the Open Source Community to Get Real
Like many open source developers, I’ve been reading the commentary around Redis Common Clause Licensing with great interest (HN thread). The gist of it is that work on certain enterprise modules for Redis that are developed by RedisLabs will be licensed...
Will GDPR Pressure SaaS Vendors to Go On-Prem?
There has been a mad scramble to get data practices in order before and since the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) took effect May 25. The intent behind GDPR seems like a reasonable set of regulations to protect the user. However,...
The Eclipse IoT Developer Survey Results Are In!
For those that don’t know, InfluxData has been a member of the Eclipse Foundation since late last year. We joined because it turned out that a few of the Eclipse IoT Projects were already based on, or used as their underlying...
Why I Joined InfluxData - Jacob Marble
My name is Jacob Marble, and I’m a new Influxer. In my short career as a software engineer, I’ve worked for both BigCo and Startup, and learned volumes from each. BigCo likes systems, processes, standards, tests, specialists, chain-of-command. Startup likes nimble,...