David G. Simmons articles - 30 total
How to avoid bricking your device during update rollouts
Having an update brick )render inoperable) your device is a real risk, and even the largest of...
How you can avoid another Crowdstrike fiasco
By now we've all heard about -- or been affected by -- the Crowdstike fiasco. If you haven't, here's...
A KubeCon Wrap Up, of sorts
Well, KubeCon North America 2024 is over and done with, and I thought I'd write a short recap of my...
Deploying an EKS cluster with attached storage
I'll admit, up front, that I'm new to Kubernetes, and probably always will be. There's just too much...
Bite-size Otterize: moving fast and (never) breaking things.
If you read my last blog post, you'll know that I'm not new at computering™. I'm old enough, and have...
Joining Otterize and the modern network stack
Hi! 👋🏼 I'm new here. I joined Otterize about 3 weeks ago as the Head of Developer...
Handy Tools I Use
This started as a simple post to an internal Slack group. Then I got asked to post it to another...
Letters to Santa - Automating Joy to the World, At Scale
It’s that time of year again. The time when the world’s largest order fulfillment operation experienc...
What in the job hopping hell?
You what? I changed jobs. Again. Yes. I did. But there’s a good reason for it. It wasn’t...
What Happens When you Put Your SQL Database on the Internet
And then we posted it to Hacker News. If you listen to, well, pretty much anyone rational, they will...
QuestDB With Python
QuestDB Tutorial for Python Getting Started To get started, you'll need a few t...
A QuestDB Dashboard with Node-Red
This is really a follow-on to my post from last week where I connected an Arduino with a temperature...
IoT on QuestDB
As you can well imagine, I’ve been super busy in my hew job at QuestDB so this has taken me longer...
It’s Time Series All the Way Down
As you are well aware, I’ve been doing IoT for almost 20 years (yeah, not a typo!). And for the last...
This stuff is FAST!
I’ve done a lot of projects using InfluxDB over the past few years (well, I did work there after all)...
All That Corona Virus Data
Many people have seen the nifty dashboard that John’s Hopkins University put out where you can see...
Snack Tracking with the new InfluxDB Arduino Library
A New Library Many of you Arduino enthusiasts are probably aware of the existing InfluxDB...
This Whole Thing Stinks!
First of all, don’t ask I have no idea where this idea came from, it just happened. I keep...
Building the World’s Smallest InfluxDB Server
I’ve built a lot of InfluxDB servers in my time here, and I’ve built some pretty esoteric ones at...
IoT Data from Other Sources: MySQL
If you’ve deployed an IoT solution, you’ve had to decide where, and how, to store all your data. At...
Sensing with The Things Network
There are many ways to connect your sensors to the network in the IoT. For short-range connections,...
Hiding Complexity with Custom Functions: Calculating Heat Index
Have you ever watched the local weather — or The Weather Channel — and heard them announce the...
How to Output Data from Flux to MQTT Natively
Writing data from InfluxDB to MQTT using Flux I started using the Open Source (OSS)...
Rev’ing the Demo Hardware
If you’ve been reading me for any length of time at all, you’ll know that I build lots of little...
My Journey into Tech and DevRel
A bunch of people I know have been writing their “Journey into Tech” blogs lately, and a few of them...
Publishing Data to InfluxDB from Swift
I’ve been a very busy man. It was only a few days ago that I wrote about a new InfluxDB library for...
Writing to InfluxDB 2.0 from Arduino ESP8266
As InfluxData moves ever closer to releasing v2.0, it’s becoming increasingly important to be able to...
Using Cross-Measurement math in InfluxDB Flux
I’ve been spending a lot of time lately with the 2.0 Alpha releases and I’m here to tell you: some of...
Adventures in Golang
I’m not a Golang developer. Let’s just get that out of the way up front. I’ve developed a few things...
Time to Awesome with InfluxDB
InfluxData has a thing about Time to Awesome . So much so that they Trademarked it. No, seriously,...