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A multi-node, elastic, petabyte scale, time-series database on Postgres for free (and more ways we are investing in our community)

We’re officially making multi-node TimescaleDB, a petabyte-scale distributed time-series database on PostgreSQL available for free – and investing in our community in other ways as well.

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How clevabit builds a data pipeline to turn agricultural IoT data into insights for farmers everywhere

Christoph Engelbert, clevabit co-founder, joins us to share the work they’re doing to power sustainable and transparent farming and how they’re giving farmers, mills, and consumers the metrics they need to make decisions.

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[New Webinar] Grafana 101 Part II: Getting Started with Alerts

Jumpstart your monitoring journey with step-by-step demos, queries, and pro tips that’ll get you set up with custom notifications for incidents in

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Achieving the best-of-both worlds: Ensuring up-to-date results with Real-Time Aggregation

Real-time aggregates (released with TimescaleDB 1.7) build on continuous aggregates' ability to increase query speed and optimize storage. Learn what's new, details about how they work, and how to get started.

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How We’re Building a Remote-First Team Culture (aka virtual event ideas that you’re welcome to steal)

As an engineering-centric organization that’s been 60%+ remote for most of our history, we’re creative with the ways we stay connected – and, with COVID-19 making us and all teams 100% remote, we’re sharing how we’ve created camaraderie to help you do the same.

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[Recap, Resources & More] DataPub #2 OpenLitterMap, energy conservation & making the world a better place

We recently launched DataPub, our new virtual meetup focused on connecting like-minded open data enthusiasts from around the world – and just wrapped up our second event. This month’s theme: using open datasets to make the world a better place.

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Timescale Newsletter Roundup: April Edition

Get an all-in-one guide to our latest technical content, virtual events, product updates, and more. From launching our new Guide to Grafana 101 coding series to releasing TimescaleDB 1.7, April was a busy month at Team Timescale ✅.

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“Guide to Grafana 101: Creating Awesome Visualizations” Recap and Resources

Get step-by-step demos and learn how to create 6 different visuals for DevOps, IoT, geospatial, and public data scenarios (and beyond).

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TimescaleDB 1.7: fast continuous aggregates with real-time views, PostgreSQL 12 support, and more Community features

We're excited to announce TimescaleDB 1.7, which includes two major updates: PostgreSQL 12 support and Real-time Aggregates, as well as new capabilities in our Community edition 🥳! Get a quick look at what's new and how to get started.

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Time-series compression algorithms, explained

Delta-delta encoding, Simple-8b, XOR-based compression, and more - these algorithms aren't magic, but combined they can save over 90% of storage costs and speed up queries. Here’s how they work.

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How SolarNetwork Fuels Energy Conservation with TimescaleDB

Matt Magoffin, Technical Director at SolarNetwork Foundation, joins us to share the work they’re doing (and how they're using data) to promote renewable energy and sustainability throughout the world.

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Introducing Write for Timescale

We know many developers and members of our community are passionate about using data to build applications, gain insight into their world, and make better decisions. With "Write for Timescale," we want to give you the opportunity to share that passion with others (and get paid for your efforts).

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How to use Grafana variables to make more interactive dashboard visualizations (aka a lot less boring, a lot more useful)

Learn how to add features that allow you, your teammates, and your stakeholders to drill into specific details, see all results, and quickly get the info you need.

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Our Product Team's Reading List: What Moral Psychology, the Rust Belt, and framing can teach us about UX

Like many people, we've been catching up on our book backlog –and we're sharing our recent reads, plus what they've taught us about our work as product managers and engineers.

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How to Build More Accurate Grafana Trend Lines: Plot Two Variables with Series-Override

Plotting multiple variables on one graph and want to compare trends? Learn how to use Grafana’s series-override feature to solve the problem of distorted scale.

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Your Questions Answered (YQA): April Edition

This month brought us a wide range of community questions, from optimizing queries for Grafana to effective indexing, partitioning data, and more. See our product & engineering team's responses – and ask your own at an upcoming session.

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[New Webinar]: Guide to Grafana 101: Getting Started with (awesome) Visualizations

Learn how to use SQL to create Grafana charts, gauges, and beyond for any time-series dataset (plus expert tips to jumpstart your first dashboard, or add a little extra awesome to your existing Grafana setup).

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CTO Corner: this month in data (April 2020 edition)

Mike Freedman, Timescale CTO, shares some of the most interesting articles and papers about databases and distributed systems he's found in the past month.

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[Recap, Resources & More] DataPub #1: a virtual meetup for public data enthusiasts

Our guest speakers covered everything from wrangling public data to understand COVID-19 and ways to better handle and analyze satellite and geospatial data to how to write faster queries (so you have more time to play Animal Crossing).

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Timescale Newsletter Roundup: March Edition

From new remote-friendly online coding sessions to ways to roll-your-own analytics solutions, we craft our newsletter to share awesome technical content and resources with our community 2x/month.

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“How to Analyze Your Prometheus Data in SQL” Recap and Resources

See step-by-step demos, an example roll-your-own monitoring setup using open source software, and 3 queries you can use immediately.

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Homegrown monitoring for personal projects: Prometheus, TimescaleDB, and Grafana FTW

Learn how Tyler - one of our newest additions to the team - setup a "roll-your-own monitoring" solution with 10x storage savings – and how you can do the same, be it for your personal projects or a critical piece of business infrastructure.

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Public Dataset Tips & Tricks: How to weave together public datasets to make sense of the world

Public datasets can help us gain insight into our business and our world. Combining public datasets either together or with our own data often requires a series of steps to cleanup (or “normalize”) the data. This blog post walks you through some techniques for data normalization.

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Join us for DataPub, a virtual meetup for public dataset enthusiasts

Love open datasets, hearing about community members’ projects, and learning how to build your own? Join us on Mar 31st for DataPub (100% virtual) to learn ways to use public data to monitor situations (including COVID-19), rework inefficient queries, and more.

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[New Webinar]: How to Analyze Your Prometheus Data in SQL: 3 Queries You Need to Know

Join us on March 25th to learn how to build the ultimate long term store for Prometheus metrics - complete with demos and queries you can use to analyze your monitoring data.