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9 Reasons to Choose Timescale vs. Influx and AWS Timestream

Why should you choose TimescaleDB over InfluxDB or AWS Timestream as your time-series database of choice? Let us count the ways (9 to be exact).

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Timescale Newsletter Roundup: June Edition

Check out the latest and greatest from Team Timescale in June, including more ways to up-level your Grafana prowess, 3 new product releases, replays from our all things open data community meetup, TimescaleDB tips, and oh so much more.

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13 tips to improve PostgreSQL Insert performance

Some of these may surprise you, but all 13 ways will improve ingest (INSERT) performance using PostgreSQL and TimescaleDB (and help you get ingest rates similar to our benchmark blog posts 🎊)

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[New Webinar] Grafana 101 Part III: Interactivity, Templating and Sharing

Take your dashboards to the next level with step-by-step demos, queries, and pro tips that’ll get you creating interactive, reusable, and shareable Grafana dashboards in less time.

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Timescale stands with the Black community

Timescale stands with the Black community. Timescale stands against racism and hate.

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[Recap, Resources & More] DataPub #3 Solving Urban Mysteries with Open Data

Learn how our May DataPub guest speakers solve "urban mysteries" - like subway ridership trends and regional property history - and make public data accessible and usable for citizens, organizations, and policymakers.

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“Grafana 101: Getting Started with Alerting” Recap and Resources

Get step-by-step demos and learn how to define 3 different alert rules and send notifications through channels like Slack, PagerDuty and OpsGenie

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Timescale Newsletter Roundup: May Edition

From big news (multi-node TimescaleDB will be available for free!) to tons of new tutorials, demos, and remote-bonding tips, May was chockfull of time-series data and technical resource goodness 🥳. Check out this post for the Reader's Digest version.

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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 your systems, so you can take action immediately.

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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.

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

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9 Reasons to Choose Timescale vs. Influx and AWS Timestream

13 tips to improve PostgreSQL Insert performance

[New Webinar] Grafana 101 Part III: Interactivity, Templating and Sharing

Timescale stands with the Black community

[Recap, Resources & More] DataPub #3 Solving Urban Mysteries with Open Data

“Grafana 101: Getting Started with Alerting” Recap and Resources

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Time-series compression algorithms, explained

How SolarNetwork Fuels Energy Conservation with TimescaleDB

Introducing Write for Timescale

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

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

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

Your Questions Answered (YQA): April Edition

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