Mike Hinkle
Ex-semiconductor engineer, fascinated with big data, analytics, data visualization, dashboarding & observability. I am a father, husband, lifelong learner & tech nerd.
Recent Posts
An untapped data source: Grafana Loki and Promtail
12/22/2022## Motivation For years, I have been using numerous different databases on an almost daily basis. Oracle, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, InfluxDB, etc.. etc.. ...
Has the world lost its momentum?
12/5/2022## A quick message to the reader This post is the product of working the past two long years, at two large companies, in two different countries and...
Apache Superset: Test driving a new tool with familiar metrics
8/2/2021For years, I have been using a piece of software by the name of _Spotfire_, Tibco Spotfire to be more specific. The software falls into the category o...
A simple use case for dbt and Airflow
7/20/2021My previous two posts involved installing a postgres server on a cheap, spare raspberry pi 3b+. The motivation was to save my time-series data for lon...
Extract, transform & load: InfluxDB Cloud to Local PostgreSQL (Part 2)
7/12/2021### Quick Recap During part 1, I walked through the following actions in the effort to keep my cloud storage data for a longer duration: 1. Burning ...
RPI3b+ (Headless) running PostgreSQL instance on localhost for longer term data retention (Part 1)
7/10/2021## Motivation I have been collecting my daughter's pulse oximeter data for almost two years. She is 24-hour ventilator dependent and my wife and I ha...
Broken virtual environments: Why it happened and how I should have prevented it
7/6/2021Approximately 3-4 days ago, I updated my Linux box (**Pop!_OS** version 20.10 -> 21.04). I have run Linux long enough to know that there could be uni...
Initial observations while settling in
6/26/2021I have begun applying for jobs. Perhaps I am being un-realistic considering I am a beginner in the French language. I could not imagine finding a job ...
A new start in France
6/21/2021I will keep this short and sweet. I left corporate life in **America** to move to my wife's home country, **France**. I had worked in the _semiconduct...