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An Introduction to Apache Parquet

A look at what Parquet is, how it works and some of the companies using its optimization techniques as a critical component in their architecture. As the amount of data being generated and stored for analysis grows at an increasing rate, developers are looking to optimize performance and reduce costs at every angle possible. At the petabyte scale, even marginal gains and optimizations can save companies millions of dollars in hardware costs when it comes to storing and processing their data.

Import JSON data into InfluxDB using the Python, Go, and JavaScript Client Libraries

Devices, developers, applications, and services produce and utilize enormous amounts of JSON data every day. A portion of this data consists of time-stamped events or metrics that are a perfect match for storing and analyzing in InfluxDB. To help developers build the applications of the future, InfluxDB provides several ways to get JSON data into InfluxDB easily.

Monitoring Network Outages at the Edge and in the Cloud

Gathering data to explore a problem with power outages creating connectivity issues and ultimately draining a laptop battery. Monitoring locations that have intermittent power and/or connectivity outages can be challenging. In this article, I’ll show how to use InfluxDB, an open source time series database, InfluxDB Cloud and Edge Data Replication to store data locally and send it to a central location whenever possible.