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A Guide to Downsampling Time Series Data with InfluxDB 3

Summary Downsampling turns high-frequency time series data into lower-resolution summaries. In InfluxDB 3, you can calculate those summaries by querying with SQL or materialize them on a schedule with the Python Processing Engine. Table of Contents This tutorial demonstrates both approaches using the InfluxDB 3 Processing Engine’s built-in bird tracking simulator plugin. You will generate telemetry, aggregate it into 10-second windows, and validate the result with SQL.

Why Tracking AI Overviews Is a Data Pipeline Problem, Not a Marketing One

Something quietly moved onto the ops backlog over the past eighteen months. Executives began asking whether the company appears in AI-generated search answers, and the request landed with whoever owns data collection rather than with the people who own the question.

Three Types of Software to Utilize in the Fulfillment and Delivery Process

As a business grows, keeping track of orders can get a little bit messy. Fast. What worked when you were shipping a few dozen orders a day may not work when you're dealing with hundreds. Suddenly, your team is checking several spreadsheets, answering customer emails about missing orders, and trying to work out what's happening in the warehouse.

7 Data Integrity Practices Vlaximux Limited Recommends for Platforms Managing High Message Volumes

The assumption that integrity problems are primarily a storage or architecture problem is one of the most expensive misconceptions in platform operations. Vlaximux Limited addresses this directly. Storage and architecture matter - but the majority of integrity failures at high message volumes are operational failures: inconsistent write patterns, missing validation logic, race conditions that only surface under load, and monitoring gaps that allow silent data corruption to compound over weeks before it is detected.

Smart Money Management Strategies for IT Leaders

Managing money as a technology executive requires a strategy as structured as building enterprise software. Tech leaders frequently receive complex compensation packages filled with equity grants, stock options, and performance bonuses. Balancing short-term liquidity with long-term wealth growth takes deliberate planning. Developing smart money habits early protects hard-earned tech earnings against economic shifts.

Data pipeline monitoring 101: Tracking health and performance across the data stack

Data pipelines are systems for moving and processing data. They are made up of concatenated services and data stores that programmatically ingest data from upstream sources; filter, transform, enrich, and route that data; and deliver it to downstream consumers.

Multi-Cloud support for the OpenSearch Migration Assistant

TL;DR Aiven contributed GCP support and private networking to the open source OpenSearch Migration Assistant, previously an AWS-only tool. Delivered via five Terraform-based PRs, the changes add a GKE deployment path and let regulated industries migrate without using the public internet - giving Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, and Solr users on GCP a supported route to Aiven for OpenSearch.

A Rust Client for InfluxDB 3

Summary A new async Rust client for InfluxDB. Built for the edge gateways, embedded systems, and high-throughput ingest pipelines where Rust already runs. Table of Contents Time series data shows up wherever the physical world meets software. A satellite constellation streams altitude, power, and thermal telemetry from every spacecraft on every pass. A factory floor running on Industry 4.0 principles instruments every line, every motor, every batch.

From Data Analytics to AI: The Technology Behind Modern Fraud Detection

A supplier changes its bank details at 3:12 p.m. Three invoices arrive before 5:00, each just below the level requiring senior approval. That evening, an unfamiliar device accesses the payment account. None of those events proves fraud. Together, they form the kind of pattern modern detection systems are built to recognise.

The Next Phase of Technology Will Be Built Around Real-World Data

The internet gave machines access to what people have written, photographed, watched and built. That created systems able to summarise documents, generate software and reproduce visual styles. It is not enough for a machine that must understand a changing street, hospital room, factory line or electricity grid. The next phase will depend on data produced by physical activity. Sensors will capture it, edge devices will process it and models will act on it. The challenge is turning imperfect signals into useful, traceable and safe decisions outside a controlled demonstration.