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Using the Flux VS Code Extension for IoT Application Development

InfluxData prides itself on its effort to prioritize developer happiness. This included providing developers with a variety of tools to interact with InfluxDB v2 OSS or InfluxDB Cloud, so they can pick the development style that works best for them. This article assumes you’re using the InfluxDB Cloud Free tier, which is the easiest way to get started and maintain InfluxDB. You can use any of the following tools for your IoT application development.

Roman Khavronenko | Open-source strategy at VictoriaMetrics

Building a company around free software product is not something new. What's less common is creating a company in order to build a free software product. This talk will cover our story of creating time series database, the lessons we learned, the mistakes we made. The free software world has changed over the last years. The one thing remains essential - importance of community, people who use the product.

observIQ Cloud and the OpenTelemetry Collector

Our log agent is powerful, efficient, and highly adaptable. Now, with OpenTelemetry setting new standards in the observability space, we wanted to incorporate that collaboration into our log agent and offer our users the ability to take advantage of the OpenTelemetry ecosystem. Starting today, you can upgrade the log agents in your observIQ account to the new Open Telemetry-based observIQ log agent with a single click.

The More You Monitor: What Are the Three Pillars of Observability?

A common way to discuss observability is to break it down into three types of telemetry: metrics, traces, and logs. These three data points are often referred to as the three pillars of observability. In this episode of The More You Monitor Product Manager, Chris Sternberg, breaks down the three pillars of observability and how they can help you gain better control and visibility of your infrastructure, applications, and networks. It’s important to remember that although these pillars are key to achieving observability, they are only the telemetry and not the end result.

The Confident Commit | ep. 11 Observability and CI/CD: meaningful measurement with Charity Majors

Rob sits down with Charity Majors to discuss the journey to creating Honeycomb, business building practices, and the importance of proper CI/CD and monitoring. Charity gives us the latest insights on observability and the necessities for engineering team success. What metrics are meaningful for your team to measure? Which ones are not? Tune in today to find out. Watch, learn, and leave us a comment with your thoughts, questions, or ideas for future podcast episodes.

Understanding Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and What They Do

The field of information technology has advanced at a breakneck pace in the last 20 years. Hence, it has become imperative for any business to know and adopt technologies that can make them productive and more competent at the same time. However, not all firms have the resources to expand their team of IT professionals for several reasons, particularly within small and medium-sized businesses.

ChaosSearch Named "Most Likely to be the Next Boston Unicorn" in Startup Boston's Community Awards

This week, ChaosSearch announced some exciting news -- we're honored to have been named Most Likely to be the Next Boston Unicorn in Startup Boston’s first-ever Community Awards! The award celebrates companies that have made extraordinary achievements in the startup ecosystem in Boston, and represents grassroots recognition from tech entrepreneurs, employees, investors, journalists, and educators in the region.

By 2030, e-Waste Will Reach 2.5 Million Metric Tons Unless We 'Sober Up'

Let’s admit something without shame: we love to use new technology. Maybe the latest smart phone, or a new lightweight laptop or tablet that makes it easier to work from anywhere, it’s all fair game. And when we are at our desk, we enjoy creating expansive workspaces with multiple monitors, a full-size keyboard, and other extras. When we look across our household, we might have duplicate, perhaps triplicate resources growing our technology real estate exponentially.