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Date Published
Author
Sam Dillard
Word count
1005
Language
English
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None

Summary

InfluxData has announced Edge Data Replication, a new feature that combines the deployment strategies of edge and cloud data workloads in one unified solution. This feature allows developers to safely replicate time series data from InfluxDB Open Source (OSS) buckets to InfluxDB Cloud buckets in real-time, enabling businesses to collect, store, and analyze high-precision time series data from the edge and view it in the cloud. The new feature builds upon two key properties of InfluxDB OSS: its ability to run efficiently on resource-constrained systems and its Flux task engine that can analyze and transform time series data. With Edge Data Replication, developers can now integrate edge and cloud workloads, reduce network costs, transform edge data, enforce edge-cloud consistency, and reimagined the TSDB architecture. This announcement is an early step in InfluxData's broader vision to support tomorrow's technologies, applications, and developer challenges with the InfluxDB platform.