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Ruby gems (libraries) aren't pulled feom github. Yes, you CAN pull it from there, but most public and published gems don't come from there.

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Location: Johannesburg, South Africa Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Possibly Technologies: Ruby, Elasticsearch, Postgres, MSSQL, C#, Micro Services, Cloud Infrastructure, ... Rés…

http://hackerpla.net/requestd/ RequestD - An Elasticsearch backed dashboard and interface to track and monitor websites and APIs. Great tool if you need to monitor error rates and …

An interview is more about how you present yourself than about your actual skills, so make sure that you create a good impression first before telling them. In my interviews I usua…

I've done a couple of contracts through them. For the most part it's beem a good experience. They try to vet the clients as well as the coders / talent, but it's not perfect proces…

Project: I'm building a simple management interface on top of Elasticsearch. I find their pricing model where you can only get some key enterprise features (like security) when you…

My experience working through Toptal has been mostly positive (although I haven't done a contract through them in quite a while). I failed my initial application due to my inabilit…

Thanks for linking to the article. I remember reading something like that but had no idea on how to find it.

Setting up nginx to proxy to Elasticsearch with HTTP auth on top is fairly trivial. There's a couple of good articles on the web if you google for it. Also, should you have an Elas…

Although I like the idea behind this, I find it quite difficult to get started in using it. Any good posts or guides for that?

The title doesn't match that of the article, and sounds somewhat biased?

It looks like since you define both the queries and the inputs, you can set it up to support SNMP. You can use Logstash to listen for SNMP traps, and push it to your OpenTSDB or El…

SEEKING WORK - REMOTE (Based in South Africa) I wrangle data as a hobby. Lately I've been playing around with machine learning and how it can be applied using Elasticsearch. Contac…

You train your own set by posting the document and the classification / category to the service. The training set is then used to calculate the prior probabilities needed by Bayes …

I find that having a bayes classifier handy can help a lot with categorizing documents or text. I manually keep track of my bank accounts using a spreadsheet, and I started using a…

I recently had the need for Bayes Classifier[1] in a couple of projects, so I wrote a service that exposes one through an API. You can set up your prior set and then get prediction…

I have a couple of Zapier zaps set up to alert me of hot posts in a couple of niche subreddits. I use these alert mostly to inform my thinking and content for a blog I'm working on…

I inherited a similiar system. It was painful to say the least. I didn't realise how painful until I started using proper queueing systems and Sidekiq.

I think you're referencing this article about MySQL job queues: https://blog.engineyard.com/2011/5-subtle-ways-youre-using-m...

There's a number of solutions, depending on your stack: at and cron are good OS level solutions. Sidekiq is great for Ruby. I think the problem lies in that PHP wasn't designed to …

SEEKING WORK / South Africa / Remote I provide solutions focused on the ELK stack: Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana. The main use cases are either full text search or time series…

When I initially saw the ad, I thought it was satire. Didn't think it could be real.