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From Reactive to Predictive: Preserving BESS Uptime at Scale

Mar 5, 2026 By Allyson Boate In InfluxData
Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) operate as revenue-generating grid assets that capture surplus electricity, deploy power during demand spikes, and support frequency control. By shifting energy across time, they stabilize grid conditions, enable renewable integration, and execute market dispatch commitments. When systems respond as designed, stored capacity becomes a flexible, monetizable supply. But BESS performance depends on precision and availability.
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Aiven

Deterministic Simulation Testing in Diskless Apache Kafka

Mar 5, 2026 By Ivan Yurchenko In Aiven
Aiven put Diskless Kafka through 2,200 logical hours of chaos testing using Antithesis. Here's how it held up. Testing is a necessary pillar in any software development lifecycle. At the same time, it's a fundamentally incomplete process - a cat-and-mouse game. You can't test what you can't imagine and distributed systems have a nasty habit of producing failures that no one on the team imagined.
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Aiven

However you Postgres, we've got you covered

Mar 3, 2026 By Tibs (Tony Ibbs) In Aiven
From free hobby projects to $5/month developer setups and enterprise-scale clusters, Aiven for PostgreSQL scales with you. Find the perfect tier for your data. Our aim is to make your use of PostgreSQL in the cloud as easy as possible, however you’re using it. Whether you are just starting to learn the ropes or you're managing a global-scale enterprise database, the platform should adapt to you, not the other way around.
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influxdata

A Practical Guide to SCADA Security

Mar 3, 2026 By Charles Mahler In InfluxData
Critical infrastructure is under siege. The systems that control our power grids, water treatment plants, and oil pipelines weren’t designed for a connected world. This post covers what security measures teams need to understand and how time series monitoring can help turn SCADA’s weaknesses into a security advantage.
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Elephant in the Room, Episode 3: Building a CFP Review Platform with PostgreSQL & Django Live

Mar 2, 2026 By Aiven In Aiven
In Episode 3 of Elephant in the Room, we move from discussion to delivery with a hands-on, live build of a real, community-focused application. Join Jay Miller, Abigail Mesrenyame Dogbe and Andres Pineda as they collaboratively design and build a CFP (Call for Proposals) review platform using PostgreSQL and Django. The aim: create a practical tool that helps speakers receive better feedback and helps organisers discover new and diverse voices.
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What is a Real-Time Data Lake?

Feb 28, 2026 By David Bunting In ChaosSearch
A data lake is a centralized data repository where structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data from a variety of sources can be stored in their raw format. Data lakes help eliminate data silos by acting as a single landing zone for data from multiple sources. But what's the difference between a traditional data lake and a real-time data lake? Some traditional data lakes use batch processing, which involves processing and analyzing a collection of data that has been stored over a specific timeframe. For example, payroll and billing systems that are handled on a weekly or monthly basis might use batch processing.
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influxdata

The "Now" Problem: Why BESS Operations Demand Last Value Caching

Feb 26, 2026 By Suyash Joshi In InfluxData
Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) represent one of the most unforgiving environments for real-time data. Unlike a passive asset, a battery is a complex electrochemical system where safety and revenue are determined by split-second decisions. In this context, “average” latency can become a serious problem. Performance depends entirely on one key question.
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