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Re:A brief history of Elasticsearch (2014) on Monday December 28, 2020 @03:58AM (#25557761)
Did you look at ZomboDB? It allows you to use Elasticsearch as a native Postgres index type.

https://github.com/zombodb/zombodb

Re:Ask HN: Favorite Podcast Episode of 2020? on Monday December 28, 2020 @12:49AM (#25557040)
There are quite a lot of arguments supporting this view, see e.g. "Jon Stewart, War Criminals & The True Story of the Atomic Bombs" [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylMbvf3sn_g

Re:I've been merging microservices back into the monolith on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @01:13AM (#25503480)
Blue/green deployment is often used. There are always two instances of the app running, with one of them handling requests.

You deploy to the other one, do a health check, warm it up and start routing to it.

No downtime.

Re:Pianists for Alternatively Sized Keyboards on Sunday November 22, 2020 @02:06AM (#25175600)
What's even more fascinating to me is that the Köln Concert is just one of many long-form improvisations he did and, arguably, far from the best one.

In roughly the following order, I recommend:

Paris, 1988

Vienna, 1991

Lausanne, 1973

Sun Bear Concerts, 1976 (5(!) concerts in 14 days)

Bremen, 1973

La Scala, 1995

Munich, 1982

...and so on.

If you _get_ Jarrett, it's a love affair for life.

Re:Ok Google – it's time you discovered cyclists on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @03:37PM (#22938560)
Google Maps is useless for biking or hiking. Barely usable, perhaps, for road cycling.

I have yet to find a better one than Mapy.cz. Great app, offline regional maps and (subjectively) beautiful map aesthetics.

Re:Goodbye, New York, California and Illinois – Hello where? on Saturday January 18, 2020 @10:23AM (#22084883)
Nobody is preventing you from paying more. Problem solved.
Re:Farewell, Google Maps on Saturday July 21, 2018 @12:01PM (#17582410)
Exactly. Specifically, for biking or hiking, Google Maps are useless. Mapy.cz can be downloaded (in region chunks) for offline use and are generally a pleasure to use.