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5 Reasons Why Your Cloud Costs Are High

Bill shock stemming from surprisingly high cloud bills remains a persistent concern for enterprises that have migrated to the cloud. Cloud service providers often market the cloud as a highly effective means to lower operational costs. By moving their applications and processes to cloud-hosted infrastructures, organizations are saving money that would have gone to datacenters, hardware, and personnel.

7 advantages of business intelligence in the retail industry

Retailers are operating in a highly competitive and fast-paced environment, which means they are always looking for an edge over their competitors. Retail business intelligence can provide just the edge they are looking for. In this article, we'll look at the many advantages of business intelligence in the retail industry.

Product Update - Adaptive Zoom now live

We love to write and ship code to help developers bring their ideas and projects to life. That’s why we’re constantly working on improving our product to meet developers where they are, to ensure their happiness, and accelerate Time to Awesome. This week, we are covering a product release that helps all InfluxDB Cloud UI users get more from their graphs.

Banking In Today's Digital Age: 6 Tech Trends

The banking industry is changing rapidly. In today's digital age, customers expect to be able to bank online and on their mobile devices. They also want to be able to use new technologies, such as biometrics and chatbots, to manage their finances. In this blog post, we will discuss six tech trends that are changing the banking industry. We will also provide tips for banks on how they can stay ahead of the curve and meet the needs of their customers. So, without further ado, let's get started!

TL;DR InfluxDB Tech Tips: Joins

If you’re an InfluxDB user you’ve almost certainly used the join() function. The join() function performs an inner join of two table streams. It’s most commonly used to perform math across measurements. However, now it is deprecated in favor of the join.inner() function which is part of the new join package. With the addition of the join package, Flux now has the ability to perform the following types of joins: A visualization of different types of joins from this article.

8 Real-World MQTT Use Cases

MQTT is becoming the standard protocol for applications that operate in environments where network connectivity is intermittent or unreliable, reducing bandwidth usage is a priority, or where hardware resources are limited. In this post you will learn about some specific use cases where businesses are seeing value from making MQTT part of their tech stack.

How Google Sheet Skills Can Help You Be More Organized And Efficient

Google Sheets is a powerful tool that can help you be more organized and efficient. In this blog post, we will discuss some of the ways that you can use Google Sheets to manage your business. We will cover everything from creating a budget to tracking your website traffic. Google Sheets is a versatile tool that can be used for a variety of purposes. So, don't wait any longer! Start using Google Sheets to improve your business today!

Relational Databases vs Time Series Databases

Databases are often the biggest bottleneck when it comes to application performance. Over the years a number of new database designs have emerged to help with not only basic scalability and performance but also to help improve developer productivity and make building certain types of applications easier. That isn’t to say these new databases are magical — there are always trade-offs being made and certain things are sacrificed for gains in other areas.