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i have been to europe. trust me, the so-called stars of european tech community are definitely overhyped. Not only do they solve much smaller problems, their beliefs and thoughts a…

jordan, agree fully with your assessment. i have experienced significant challenges in keeping elasticsearch in green since it just loves to failover at times without prior notice,…

this is very bad for your health. if possible avoid any caffinated drinks or stitch to healthier ones like green tea.

I upvoted. You spoke from the heart!

Dropbox is a resource hog. Unless i want my windows machine to fireup on RAM, fan speed, hard disk usage and stall, I avoid running Dropbox in background. Onedrive works better for…

After foundation db leaving users in lurch, i'll be more careful while trusting other products.

Spot on! > How to be a 10x engineer: Incur technical debt fast enough to appear 10x as productive as the ten engineers tasked with cleaning it up. We have a guy in our onsite team …

> Lots of coffee turns me into a highly alert rambler. not good for health if done daily.

my learning is to approach "fads" with some skepticism and wait for market to give a thumbs up before you try.

improve upon the existing ideas which are poorly executed.

I agree with this point. The purpose of an ad need not always be to make a immediate action (like a purchase or signup), but also about creating awareness and reminding people abou…

Elasticsearch is much more cumbersome to setup. I think Postgres' wins in relative ease of setting up.

this is a awesome post. for most web applications, installing solr/elasticsearch for full-text search capability in addition to a sql database is highly time and maintainence inten…

Own delivery network is already happening in India by Amazon where the delivery partners are not that reliable/costly. Surprising to see e-commerce players take solutions from deve…