Choosing your indexing strategy is hard. The Elasticsearch documentation does have some general recommendations, and there are some tips from other companies, but it also depends on the particular usecase.Continue reading
CCPA, or the California Consumer Privacy Act, is the upcoming “small GDPR” that is applied for all companies that have users from California (i.e. it has extraterritorial application). It isContinue reading
I’ve previously written about setting up Cassandra and Priam for backup and cluster management. The example that I gave for backup restore there, however, is not applicable in every situationContinue reading
This week I have a talk on a meetup about blockchain beyond the hype – its actual implementation issues and proper use-cases. The slides can be found here: The mainContinue reading
With the recent trend towards data protection and privacy, as well as the requirements of data protection regulations like GDPR and CCPA, some organizations are trying to reorganize their personalContinue reading
Every organization needs to collect logs from multiple sources in order to put them in either a log collector or SIEM (or a dedicated audit trail solution). And there areContinue reading
A few months ago an essay titled “Cybersecurity is not very important” appeared. The essay is well written and interesting but I’d like to argue against its main point. AndContinue reading
Most web pages now consist of multiple JavaScript files that are included in various ways (via <script> or in some more dynamic fashion, bundled and minified or not). But sinceContinue reading
Writing software consists of very little actual “writing”, and much more thinking, designing, reading, “digging”, analyzing, debugging, refactoring, aligning and meeting others. The reading and digging part is where youContinue reading
Every now and then one has a half-baked idea about some project that they aren’t likely to be able to do because of lack of time. I’ve written about suchContinue reading