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Don't blame the developer advocate for the company's mistakes. Developer advocates rarely have any part in these kinds of decisions, but are left holding the bag whenever they go b…

The original TSM engine is still used by InfluxDB v2 OSS. The InfluxDB Cloud platform uses a variation of TSM that's tailored for a distributed SaaS rather than stand-alone nodes (…

IOx is the data storage layer. It will replace the current TSM data storage system in InfluxDB, but it won't replace InfluxDB as a whole.

Not sure what you expected from an article with this title...

So many things are qualitative, but not quantitative. They can be measured, but not counted. Happiness is one of those, you can say that you are "more happy" or "less happy" from o…

I'd recommend reading The Community Engagement Trap[0] by Rosie Sherry (which should also be shared here on HN), she talks about Community Discovery as the process for getting thes…

There are several books on precisely this.

I've started writing those answers out as separate blog posts: Measuring Connections: https://www.savannahhq.com/2022/09/06/measuring-your-communi... Measuring Support: https://www…

That's like saying grocery stores are exploiting the human need for food. A healthy community benefits the people in it as much or more than the company behind it. As you identifie…

s/surprised/disappointed/ A user's engagement with your product is a great metric, because what you value is users using your product. But for a COMMUNITY it's the wrong metric, be…

That's why it also says "Community isn’t social media." No social media company is going to do this, you are correct. But community managers and community-led companies absolutely …

Here's a couple: Connections between people: https://www.savannahhq.com/2022/09/06/measuring-your-communi... Support: https://www.savannahhq.com/2022/09/08/measuring-your-communi..…

> I don't get it. What is a "community manager"? Is it someone that runs a company's social media page? No, that's a social media manager, completely different role. > And do they …

Community isn’t social media. You don't advertise to your community. If you do you're actively killing it. Community is made up of people making connections and building relationsh…

InfluxData doesn't make money from Telegraf at all. It fills a need (data collection) that InfluxDB users have, so it helps them which helps us, but it also helps our competitors w…

Telegraf can do this too, in a more limited capacity. It keeps an in-memory buffer of collected data points so if a write to an output fails it'll try again on the next interval wi…

There are open source projects like EdgeX and Fledge that can do this also

Parquet is the persistent storage format for when the data is written to disk or object storage. Arrow is the in-memory format and a set of tools built around working with it. So I…

To be clear, InfluxDB IOx will be using Apache Arrow, DataFusion and Parquet, and contributing to those upstream projects, not creating our own thing.

For a while the 2.0 development branch was using a different storage file format than 1.x, which required migrating your time series data. But by the 2.0 Release Candidate that was…

InfluxDB IOx will use Parquet files for persistent storage

InfluxDB 1.x user can upgrade to InfluxDB 2.0 pretty easily, there is an `upgrade` command that will convert your metadata from 1.x to 2.0. Your time series data doesn't even need …

Snowflake was actually specifically mentioned as an example of who else is doing this in the blog post

HN thread for the blog post announcing IOx: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25049253

Delorean was just a project codename, but it's trademark that belongs to another company