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How IoT and Dual Dash Cams Keep Drivers in Focus

Picture this: you're managing a fleet of delivery trucks, and one of your drivers is out on a long haul. You can't ride along to make sure they're driving safely, but what if you could keep an eye on them anyway? That's where IoT and dual dash cams step in. These aren't just regular cameras-they're smart, connected, and built to keep drivers in focus, both literally and figuratively. In today's fast-paced world, where safety and efficiency are everything, these tools are a total game-changer.

From Data To Decisions: Expanding Your Operations With Confidence

Expanding a business comes with opportunities and challenges, making informed decision-making essential. Relying on guesswork or intuition can lead to costly mistakes, while a data-driven approach provides clarity and direction. Analyzing market conditions, customer behaviors, and operational performance helps businesses anticipate trends and adapt effectively. With accurate insights, companies can allocate resources wisely, refine strategies, and stay ahead of competitors.

Using Azure Blob Storage for InfluxDB 3 Core and Enterprise

InfluxDB 3 Core and Enterprise introduce a powerful new diskless architecture that lets you store your time series data in cloud object storage while running the database engine locally. This approach offers significant advantages: you get the performance of a local database combined with the durability, scalability, and cost-effectiveness of cloud storage. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to set up InfluxDB 3 Core or Enterprise with Azure Blob Storage as your object store.

Apache Kafka Tiered Storage in Depth: How Writes and Metadata Flow

The idea behind KIP-405 is to simply store most of the cluster’s data in another service. As we covered in detail in the last article - it’s a simple-sounding idea that goes a very long way. This other server where the data gets stored is pluggable. KIP-405 was designed in such a way to make Kafka seamlessly extensible to store its data in any kind of external store through a solid interface.

InfluxDB 3 Core and Enterprise Are Now in Beta

Today we’re excited to announce that InfluxDB 3 Core, our new open source product licensed under MIT/Apache 2, and InfluxDB 3 Enterprise are now in beta. InfluxDB 3 Core is a high-speed, recent-data engine that collects and processes data in real-time, while persisting it to local disk or object storage. InfluxDB 3 Enterprise is a commercial product that builds on Core’s foundation, adding high availability, read replicas, enhanced security, and data compaction for faster queries.

#InfluxDB 3 Open Source in Beta!

InfluxData PM Peter Barnett breaks down the key improvements since alpha and what’s next on the road to GA. InfluxDB 3 Core: A high-speed, open source recent-data engine (MIT/Apache 2) for real-time data collection, processing, and storage. InfluxDB 3 Enterprise: Built on Core, with high availability, read replicas, enhanced security, and a free tier for at-home use.

Logging and metrics services and Aiven: an overview

Logging and metrics data, regardless of what your business does digitally, are some of the most prolific data types that any service or application can produce. Logging data is generally about specific events that you care about in your application and metrics data is generally about overall system performance and uptime.