InfluxData's Co-founder and CTO Paul Dix discusses the company's future plans and presents lessons learned from the past five years. The need emerged for additional components of the platform, including Telegraf, Kapacitor, and Chronograf. A new query language called Flux f.k.a. IFQL has been introduced to support InfluxDB and other time series data applications. The article provides an overview of InfluxData's journey and its future as a platform for working with time series data.