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They could be angels, this can still be harmful to devs. We could still be concerned about all of tech consolidating under 4-5 anticompetitive companies On that basis alone, not sure how anyone can ch…

More tech consolidation under Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Apple flat out sucks. It doesn't empower developers in the slightest to have a small number of giant companies own everything.

Good point. We may be in this position because private investors on average are naive buzzword chasing sycophants while Google etc have scale, leverage and knowhow to direct and control the market ove…

I’m not always convinced Google, Amazon, etc can start a product and compete in a new market and have it work 100% of the time. These companies have plenty of their own flops. Many things come to mind…

+1 to vendor lock-in. Being an AWS shop can start feeling like being a Windows shop in the 90s... it can creep up on you. You mostly have an open source app and slowly start acruing bits of AWS only…

Awesome this was broken by local journalists

I’d recommend enjoying some [salsa de jumiles]( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumiles ) - stinkbug salsa.…

So a developer could make substantive contributions to XPack, but still owe Elastic money when they deploy to prod?

Most languages have common utterances for mother/father and other family members. This is because these are easy, early sounds a baby can make. Some variation of da, ma, pa, na occurs fairly univ…

I might shamelessly plug my own book, Relevant Search ( http://Manning.com/books/relevant-search ) which introduces relevance on Elasticsearch. Ping me ( http://o19s.co…

If anyone wants the kind of machine learning based rerabking in Elasticsearch, we've been working with the wikimedia foundation on an Elasticsearch learning to Rank plugin: http://gith…

FWIW I do see organizations building relevance/discovery teams staffed differently than their team for "scaling out a search engine". Usually the relevance team is tasked with anything …