Ask HN: What's a promising area to work on?

Re:Ask HN: What's a promising area to work on? by folkhack on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @02:46PM (#21327203)

YES. I didn't even know that nomenclature before you said it... I employ an ELK and TIG stack for a huge part of what I do. You can very much say that I "process mine" my own process. I also have a ton of regex capability that's often employed to rip through large datasets to extract key data.

Lots of times I have to measure certain things before I begin to fix a problem, and the above stated tooling (typically ran in Docker containers) has really really helped with that.

I have dashboards, warnings, circuit breakers, etc etc. that all help me monitor complex processes, and that help me react to ongoing changes (ex: when a 3rd-party website updates their DOM).

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Re:Ask HN: What's a promising area to work on? by dhruvkar on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @03:28PM (#21327618)

Man.. I wish I knew what you know.

These are the things I need at my current role, and I'm woefully overwhelmed. Tying together processes spread out over multiple systems is a large portion of my role.

I'm having trouble tracking all the various scripts running on different versions of my own packages, and reacting to breaking changes on 3rd party sites. I definitely need a dashboard to tie all these automations together.

I'd love to chat if you're up for it.

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Re:Ask HN: What's a promising area to work on? by folkhack on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @04:08PM (#21328026)

Absolutely! Feel free to reach out - you can get to my email address at folkhack.com

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Re:Ask HN: What's a promising area to work on? by gota on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @08:11AM (#21333722)

Great to hear. I'm finishing my doctorate researching a specialized Process Mining approach and its great to hear there's people doing concrete significant work like that out there

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