Using the official Postgres Docker image to start a new Postgres server is straightforward. The Docker entrypoint script reads POSTGRES_PASSWORD, sets the superuser password via initdb, and then keeps running. The container starts. Your application connects. Everything looks fine. This is very convenient, but is it a good practice from a security perspective? As you …
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An InfluxDB Line Protocol API for PostgreSQL
When working at Timescale, we encountered a lot of users who were using InfluxDB and wanted to migrate to TimescaleDB. They had the full setup: using Telegraf for collecting data, often Kafka or similar solution as buffer, and sending it all to a InfluxDB backend. Although InfluxDB is a very good database and very efficient …
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