# Community News March 2023

> A roundup of March 2023 news from the FlowFuse and Node-RED communities, covering platform updates and community highlights.

Welcome to the FlowFuse newsletter for March 2023, a monthly roundup of what’s been happening with both FlowFuse and the wider Node-RED community.

## Upcoming events

### Node-RED Ask Me Anything

Back by popular demand, FlowFuse is hosting a monthly Node-RED Ask Me Anything session on March 9th. This is a great opportunity to ask Nick O’Leary, co-creator of Node-RED & FlowFuse CTO, and Rob Marcer, Node-RED FlowFuse Developer Educator your questions about Node-RED.

### DevOps for Node-RED: An Introduction to FlowFuse Webinar

Join Nick O'Leary, FlowFuse CTO, as he presents an Introduction to FlowFuse and demonstrates FlowFuse’s platform for providing DevOps for Node-RED. This webinar will be on March 30th. [Register today](/webinars/2023/introduction-to-flowforge/).

## From our Blog

[Toward Highly Available Node-RED](/blog/2023/02/highly-available-node-red/) - High availability is an often requested feature for Node-RED. This post from FlowFuse CEO discusses our approach to HA for Node-RED.

[MING Stack for IoT](/blog/2023/02/ming-blog/) - MING technology stack include M (Mosquitto/MQTT), InfluxDB, Node-RED and Grafana. Ian Skerrett, FlowFuse Head of Marketing discusses how this tech stack is used for IoT.

[Introduction to Node-RED](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47EvfmJji-k) - An in-depth webinar recording on key Node-RED concepts and demonstration on how to get started with Node-RED.

Node-RED Quick Tips - Rob Marcer, FlowFuse Developer Educator has a weekly series of Node-RED hints and tips

- [Tips #1](/blog/2023/02/3-quick-node-red-tips-1/)
- [Tips #2](/blog/2023/02/3-quick-node-red-tips-2/)

## From the Community

### Node-RED Community Survey

The Node-RED open source project is running an Node-RED Community Survey. Give your [feedback on how you are using Node-RED](https://nodered.org/blog/2023/02/23/community-survey).

### Good alternatives to Pis for your next project

Raspberry Pis continue to be difficult to purchase. Eben Upton of the Raspberry Pi Foundation has said that [supply should improve this year](https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/supply-chain-update-its-good-news/) but in the mean-time there are some good alternatives you could consider. The Youtube channel [ExplainingComputers](https://www.youtube.com/@ExplainingComputers) has shared a [great video covering some of the most popular SBCs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8clrUclPIs) you could use for your next project, it’s worth a watch.

### Custom Node Spotlight - node-red-contrib-os

[OS](https://flows.nodered.org/node/node-red-contrib-os) is a great custom node which allows you to monitor the performance of the device you are running Node-RED on. It can check RAM usage, disk space, CPU load, and a lot more. It’s really easy to use, we recommend you [take a look](https://flows.nodered.org/node/node-red-contrib-os).

## Join Our Team

FlowFuse is expanding our team. We have two openings right now:

- **Developer Advocate - Manufacturing & Industrial Automation**
- **DevOps Engineer**