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Class is in Session - Announcing InfluxDB University

At InfluxData, it’s no surprise that we are passionate about time series data. Our team is committed to helping our community understand its capabilities and sharing easier and more efficient ways of working with InfluxDB, Telegraf and Flux. Our end goal is always to deliver faster Time to Awesome™ for our users. To this end, we’re excited to announce the launch of InfluxDB University.

InfluxData Launches InfluxDB University

Live and on-demand trainings simplify application building for faster Time to Awesome™ SAN FRANCISCO – March 9, 2022 – InfluxData, creator of the leading time series platform InfluxDB, today announced the launch of InfluxDB University (InfluxDB U), an online education platform for customers and developers working with time series data.

How APA-Tech Uses Observability to Make Sense of Tons of Monitoring Data With Georg Höllebauer

APA-Tech is a managed service provider in Austria, responsible for all IT services within the Austrian Press Agency - Austria's national and largest press agency - as well as other customers. In this video, Georg Höllebauer, Enterprise Metrics Architect at APA-Tech, explains how he and his team use topology-powered observability to make sense of all the monitoring data they were collecting and get a better overall picture of their customer's IT environment.

A Complete Guide to Node.js Process Management with PM2

Process management refers to various activities around the creation, termination, and monitoring of processes. A process manager is a program that ensures that your applications always stay online after being launched. Process managers can prevent downtime in production by automatically restarting your application after a crash or even after the host machine reboots. They are also useful in development: they auto-restart an app once its source files or dependencies are updated.

Why You Need APM-and How it Works

There’s a lot to consider when engineering and implementing software, whether as an update patch or a newly-introduced product. End users have certain expectations when introduced to new or updated software—at the top of the list are aesthetics, ease of use, stability, and response time—the last two of which can be significantly improved when you employ application performance management or APM.

Webhooks for Raygun Alerting - Create custom third-party integrations

Since the introduction of Alerting to Raygun in late 2021, development teams have had more visibility into emerging issues than ever before. While the initial solution enabled you to get alert notifications by email, we knew that the next step was to give you more control over where you receive alerts.

Kubernetes vs. Docker

Container technology is changing the way we think about building, shipping, and running applications. Containers are lightweight packages of software that include everything it needs to run an application. This includes operating system components as well as libraries and other dependencies. Emerging technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes empowers organizations to deliver quality software with speed and ease.

Open sourcing our pay calculator

We all know that pay is just as hard as it is important. Having a team distributed over 11+ countries makes pay even harder than in a traditional setup. I joined Checkly in mid-2021 with the promise of a fair and transparent culture in a remote tech startup and my goal was clear: make Checkly one of the best employers in our industry. A topic that I wanted to tackle early on was pay. How can we make pay less nebulous and more transparent, fair, and predictable?