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Think I've posted this before but my employer paid Elastic for the official training - and even that course included everything on how to set up, run and tune ES but applying any s…

Kind of more limited to a 200OK-level health check, but Structurizr does support basic checks like this ( https://structurizr.com/help/health-checks ) - though I do love the idea o…

You're really going for the straw-man argument here I see, there is a huge difference between launching a space ship and creating a new way to mine the earth and destroy the enviro…

You're right, anecdotal knowledge does apply to everyone's job market... HN worldviews are wild sometimes

TIL price gouging of medical supplies during pandemics is a good feature of markets..

I'm sure this gets mentioned every time, but this is great supplementary reading to 13 Minutes to the Moon podcast https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p083t547

The stated motivation is to reduce misinformation from China in lead up to election. Pretty wild that Facebook which was 100% proven to have been used for Russian misinformation in…

Even doing the official Elastic training - Elasticsearch Engineer 1 gives you everything you need to hurt yourself to set up, use and admin a cluster, but no security is covered un…

But it's not a scandal - it's an issue with a product, not some government conspiracy

Agreed, unfortunately try getting anyone with that goal elected though, they immediately get eaten alive by the other side with "but they want to spend all your money!". I may just…

Ah yes the engineering nirvana where no-one is a manager and targets don't exist..

Totally agree on environmental factors but the philosophy of a take a train instead of fly domestic, and not fly at all international - is great for countries where you can travel …

Never seen a piece of "commentary" offer so little other than open conjecture that will probably be interpreted by plenty to justify some ridiculous conspiracy theory.

While I’m totally onboard with the privacy concerns, this is ridiculous FUD to just assume that every company just took on the security and storage risk of holding that data. Find …

As someone that spends most of their days at the design/scoping phase, then watching the product go into development where it encounters constant misunderstandings and gotchas that…