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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.

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Devopsdays NYC 2020 Demo, Open Space Recap & More

Bringing our devopsdays NYC 2020 experience – what we learned, what we demoed, and what we spoke about – to the wider community for those unable to attend and keen to learn about all things DevOps.

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Your Questions Answered (YQA): March Edition

Check out this month's roundup of community questions, from ways to scale your reads and writes to handling large-scale geospatial datasets. We’ve

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Charting the spread of COVID-19 using data

Data gives us insight into the world around us. Using data, we can visualize and prepare for the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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“Time-Series for Developers: What the Heck is Time-Series” Recap and Resources

See step-by-step demos, examples of time-series in real scenarios, and 3 queries you can use immediately.

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[New Webinar] Time-Series for Developers: WTH is Time-Series?

Join us for a code-focused, technical session focused on the how of time-series

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Overheard @ Office Hours: January Edition

Check out the latest roundup of community questions, ranging from the best place to get started to ways to optimize your queries and schemas.

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Introducing #TSDBTipTuesday!

The theme of this month is using SQL for time-series data.

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How to proactively manage long-term data storage with downsampling

Eliminate the need to store billions of rows with TimescaleDB’s upgraded continuous aggregates

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TimescaleDB 1.6: Data retention policies for continuous aggregates

New release allows you to save resources and storage space while maintaining continuous aggregates

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New: Helm Charts for deploying TimescaleDB on Kubernetes

Quickly & easily add TimescaleDB to your Kubernetes deployment strategy

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What is the State of PostgreSQL?

We created and distributed a survey to Postgres users around the globe to see how they are using the database in 2019 and

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Recommendations for setting up your architecture with AWS & TimescaleDB

Learn more about common implementations and find the option that works best for your project, team, or organization

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Optimize your storage costs with TimescaleDB’s data tiering functionality

Gain significant improvements in Total Cost of Ownership by moving historical or infrequently accessed data to more cost effective storage.

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Achieving optimal query performance with a distributed time-series database on PostgreSQL

Significant query performance benefits for both full and partial aggregations.

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Building columnar compression in a row-oriented database

How we achieved 91%-96% compression in the latest version of TimescaleDB

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Create a data pipeline with TimescaleDB, Kafka, and Confluent

Ingest time-series data into TimescaleDB from upstream sources using Apache Kafka and Confluent Platform.

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Writing IT Metrics from Netdata to TimescaleDB

How a Senior Technologist at animation film studio LAIKA developed a tool to store metrics from Netdata to TimescaleDB.

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Recap: Getting Started with TimescaleDB and Defining Best Practices

Watch the webinar recording to learn more about TimescaleDB’s internals and how to leverage time-series specific features.

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How to quickly build dashboards with time-series data

Achieve automated materialized views using TimescaleDB continuous aggregates.