The Many Uses of Ruby Modules and Time Series
Sonia Gupta, Developer Advocate, InfluxData

In this presentation you will learn about Ruby modules and how you can implement them in your code. Together we’ll explore how Modules can make your code cleaner and easier to understand. After this presentation you will have a better understanding of how Modules can help you to organize classes and methods, and how they can be used as mixins.

When Holt-Winters is Better than Machine Learning for Time Series Data
Anais Dotis-Georgiou, Developer Advocate, InfluxData

Machine Learning is all the rage, but when does it make sense to use it for forecasting? How do statistical forecasting methods compare? In this presentation, Developer Advocate Anais Dotis-Georgiou will show you how the Holt-Winters forecasting algorithm works. Then we’ll use the HOLT_WINTERS() function with InfluxData to make our own time series forecast.

Optimization of Wind Turbine Operations with Time Series Data
Frederick Van Leeckwyck, Co-Founder and the Business Development Manager, Factry

Wind turbine operators need to generate as much electricity as possible given variable weather conditions while staying within regulatory boundaries. In this session, we demonstrate the value of a time series database by collecting data from industrial control systems, adding further context with additional data and (interpreting the result visually, see below) using this as a basis for optimization.

Democratizing Metrics with Grafana
Jacob Lisi, Software Engineer, Grafana

Time series data is a valuable way of communicating real-time insights, but how can you empower your co-workers and management be comfortable digging in themselves? Learn how Grafana can shift the metrics culture of your organization from consumers to collaborators.

Building a Big Data Time Series Visualization Platform for SaaS
Steve Moreton, Global Head of Product Management, CJC Ltd

Steve Moreton, Global Head of Product Management at CJC, will showcase how they built a big data visualization platform used in the capital markets for ITOA (IT Operations Analytics). MosaicOA uses InfluxDB to store metrics from hundreds of specialist servers, networking and middleware systems, with some firms doing 1 million database writes per minute. The data (CPU, memory, network and application data) is queried and visualized for clients to address a variety of use cases. Steve will detail the many aspects of building such a platform, implementing data sorting techniques such as principle component analysis and designing killer visualizations for the demanding capital markets IT crowd.

How Web Shop Fly Visualizes Time Series with Java to Sell More Airtickets in Europe
Ivan Kudibal, Cofounder & Engineering Manager, Bonitoo.io

In this presentation, Ivan Kudibal will present the application monitoring solution Bonitoo.io has made for the startup called webshopfly.com, the company that has grown into the big flight ticket selling travel agency in more than 5 European countries and Russia. The monitoring solution has been built on top of InfluxData stack in order to monitor some user events, selected application events, and error notifications. Although the IT services are supported in parallel by Google Analytics, Hotjar or AWS Cloudwatch, InfluxData technologies put all the important metrics under one umbrella and provide a very exact and transparent way to find the metrics useful in UX improvements, fast response to anomalies, and order management or monitoring of quality of flight data.