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InfluxData Blog
Company blog · influxdata.com/blogdataprogramming
InfluxData Blog is the company blog at influxdata.com, writing about data and programming. Since 2015, 118 different Hacker News readers have linked it 210 times, most often “InfluxDB 1.X: open-source Time Series Platform”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Most-linked posts?
- InfluxDB 1.X: open-source Time Series Platform5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2017-02-04
- The Plan for InfluxDB 3.0 Open Source4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-09-21
- InfluxData Working on Go Implementation of Apache Arrow – InfluxData4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2018-03-22
- Will Kubernetes Collapse Under the Weight of Its Complexity?4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2018-05-24
- /high-availability/4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2016-03-11
- /careers/3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-02-01
- Message from InfluxData Founder and CTO Paul Dix3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-07-10
- InfluxDB 3 Open Source Now in Public Alpha Under MIT/Apache 2 License3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-01-13
- Rust can be difficult to learn and frustrating, but it's also very exciting3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-10-22
- /3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-07-26
What Hacker News says?
Really? From what I gather from projects like RethinkDB or this: https://www.influxdata.com/the-open-source-database-business... open source is a forever struggling business model.
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on “How a VC-funded company is undermining the open-source community”Submitted Open source takes continued investment, and that must be subsidized somehow as a story · 396 points
HN discussionThe Grafana Enterprise point is the most salient here. The answer is no, they wouldn't have been able to create closed source plugins for a commercial product. Only AGPL code. As I've stated before: copyleft licenses are an evolutionary dead end: https://www.influxdata.com/blog/copyleft-and-community-licen... . P.S. Hey Todd ;)
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on “Grafana, Loki, and Tempo will be relicensed to AGPLv3”Submitted Rust can be difficult to learn and frustrating, but it's also very exciting as a story · 287 points
HN discussionInfluxData (YC W13) | San Francisco or Remote | https://www.influxdata.com/ | Golang | Full Time | REMOTE OK We're looking for database engineers to help work on InfluxDB and other products. The current InfluxDB team is spread across four timezones and two continents; we're definitely a remote-first company. If you love Go, open-source, writing high performance code and solving interesting data/distributed systems p…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2017)”Submitted InfluxDB is betting on Rust and Apache Arrow for next-gen data store as a story · 205 points
HN discussionInfluxData | Software Engineer | SF | REMOTE or ONSITE | Full-time We are a time series database, looking for experienced Golang SWEs to work on InfluxDB. I'm on this team, I work remotely. Company is growing fast, everyone is smart and nice. Email me directly jacob.marble@influxdata.com https://www.influxdata.com/blog/why-i-joined-influxdata-jaco... https://www.influxdata.com/careers/
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2018)”Submitted Will Kubernetes Collapse Under the Weight of Its Complexity? as a story · 205 points
HN discussionInfluxData | Software / Support Engineer, and almost every other position | SF | ONSITE/REMOTE | Full Time InfluxData makes the time series database InfluxDB, and related products. Our customers love us, we're growing fast, looking for curious humans to help us grow. Very remote-friendly (I'm remote). Golang, Javascript, Kubernetes, AWS - Developer Advocate - DevRel - Managers, Directors - Account Exec - Product Man…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2018)”Submitted IOx: InfluxData’s New Storage Engine as a story · 167 points
HN discussion> Applications of Java and Rust do not overlap. Both are general purpose languages, so of course they overlap. > Good luck rewritting all the big data tools from Java (Elasticsearch, Spark, Kafka, Hadoop, Neo4j, Deeplearning4j, Cassandra, Solr, Arrow, OrientDB) Cassandra ( https://scylladb.com ) and Kafka ( https://vectorized.io ) have already been rewritten once in C++, with massive latency and throughput improveme…
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on “Why AWS loves Rust, and how we’d like to help”Submitted InfluxDB v0.10 GA with hundreds of thousands writes/sec, 98% better compression as a story · 152 points
HN discussionI have been currently exploring the option of open sourcing a project of mine and have researched CLAs a bit, but would love to be corrected if mistaken. It is as simple - and it is not. You need to take care of special cases, like contributions from company employees in their free time (their company could still own rights to this work), people contributing other people's code (SO answers), patents and whatnot. For…
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on “Commons Clause”Submitted InfluxDB 1.0 GA Released: A Retrospective and What’s Next as a story · 136 points
HN discussionInfuxDB has this as well https://www.influxdata.com/blog/writing-logs-directly-to-inf...
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on “Grafana Loki – Like Prometheus, but for logs”Submitted Update on InfluxDB Clustering, High Availability and Monetization as a story · 124 points
HN discussionInfluxData: Remote | San Francisco | London | Austin InfluxData makes InfluxDB, which created the category of time series databases. We are used heavily in infrastructure monitoring, IoT, finance, and other fields. We have are Open Source, but also have Enterprise and SaaS products. We have many different kinds of remote roles in the US and Europe, other places on a case by case basis. My team is entirely remote. I…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2020)”Submitted InfluxDB is now InfluxData, a platform for time series data as a story · 124 points
HN discussionInfluxData | San Francisco, USA | Full Time | REMOTE | Multiple positions | https://www.influxdata.com/careers/ Come join the market leader in the fastest growing segment of the database industry (time series databases). We just completed our Series D funding round are are looking to hire technical support folks, product people, and sales engineers amongst roles. Check out https://www.influxdata.com and then feel fr…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2019)”Submitted InfluxDB 1.1: 60% performance increase and new query functionality as a story · 121 points
HN discussionHave you looked at Flux? You can do some really incredible things with it, both inside of queries and also in tasks/alerts. Check out https://www.influxdata.com/blog/anomaly-detection-with-media... for an example
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on “Monitoring your own infrastructure using Grafana, InfluxDB, and CollectD”Submitted InfluxDB 2.0 Alpha and the Road Ahead as a story · 119 points
HN discussionIn fact we've got one of our Developer Advocates doing a live broadcast right now over at https://www.influxdata.com/time-series-meetup/virtual-2020
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on “Monitoring your own infrastructure using Grafana, InfluxDB, and CollectD”Submitted InfluxDB now supports Prometheus remote reads and writes natively as a story · 101 points
HN discussionI try to monitor everything because it can get much more accessible to debug weird issues when sh*t hits the fan. > Do you also keep tabs on network performance, processes, services, or other metrics? Everything :) > What's your take—would you trust a simple, bespoke agent, or would you feel more secure with a well-established solution? I went with collected [1] and Telegraf [2] simply because they support tons of m…
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on “Ask HN: What do you monitor on your servers?”Submitted Why We’re Building Flux, a New Data Scripting and Query Language as a story · 91 points
HN discussionSince the theme of this thread seems to be non-clojure alternatives, I'll point in the direction of InfluxData (formerly InfluxDB)'s new-ish Kapacitor project. While I'm unconvinced their custom JavaScripty DSL (TICKscript) is actually preferable to Clojure or even can be read without careful, quite LISP-like indentation, it is pretty similar in basic functionality to Riemann and is definitely not-Clojure* see: http…
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on “Riemann – A network monitoring system”Submitted InfluxDB 2.0 Is Out as a story · 78 points
HN discussionI view that as a significant negative impact to OSS. I have a strong preference for liberal licenses like MIT or Apache 2.0. Infectious licenses like copy-left put restrictions on it that make it less appealing as open source. I wrote a bit on it here: https://www.influxdata.com/blog/copyleft-and-community-licen...
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on “Open Distro for Elasticsearch”Submitted InfluxDB Clustering Beta and Data Explorer as a story · 64 points
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