Dec 2015 InfluxDB Meetup

Come join us for a great evening of talks from the community and companies that create, test and deploy InfluxDB in production.

The evening will have something interesting for both beginners and advanced users of InfluxDB.

For those coming straight from work, pizza and drinks will be provided. Video recordings of the talks will posted shortly after the event for those who cannot join us and we'll take a stab at broadcasting live through Periscope.

If you have an InfluxDB related talk you'd like to share at a future Meetup, please submit it to the organizers for consideration!

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Announcements - 10 mins

Administrative stuff plus job-related and community announcements.

Getting Started with Query Performance and Schema Design - 30 mins

Technical Level: Beginner/Intermediate

In this tutorial, InfluxDB engineer and trainer Michael Desa will give a crash course on the fundamentals of InfluxDB query language, tuning queries for performance plus strategies for schema design.

Monitoring Kubernete's Clusters with InfluxDB & Grafana - 30 mins

Technical Level: Intermediate/Advanced

This talk Vishnu Kannan from Google's Kubernetes' team will explore the monitoring of Kubernetes clusters using InfluxDB and Grafana, plus look into some of the existing challenges in doing so. What's Kubernetes? It's an open source platform for managing applications across cluster of hosts, providing container-centric infrastructure.

InfluxDB Internals: Using the Raft Consensus Protocol - 45 mins

Technical Level: Intermediate/Advanced

In this talk, InfluxDB engineer Philip O'Toole will discuss how InfluxDB uses the Raft consensus protocol to solve the fundamental problem in fault-tolerant distributed systems. If you are interested in understanding how high-availability and clustering works under the hood, this talk is for you.