Near Realtime Data Monitoring: A Simple Javascrip Sometimes simple is better Medium Update: This is another post that Medium did not format the code correctly during import. The original version is here https://dangerousmetrics.org/project-SimpleNodeJSIndexMonitor.html. — — — Monitoring an Elasticsearch index, well, any index for that matter is not as complex as it may seem. Some use cases can seem deeply complex…

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So as I was scrolling through Twitter today I caught the trending item that Dave Grohl has said that he will remove his music from Spotify because of the Joe Rogan fiasco. This, really does not concern me on a personal level. My view is that as the artist and…

Through my many years of dealing with anxiety, I followed many paths to get relief from a mind constantly in turmoil. Of course, as other posts mention I hit my shit limit with medications a few years ago, especially SSRI’s. Through the years of being on and off medications, sometimes…

This post will jump straight to the point. The short answer is that I was tired. The long answer, is, well, long. Other posts I have written in this blog mention my 40 year battle with anxiety problems driven by hyper-vigilant PTSD. The post mentioned above has most of the…

Some seem to not like poems with a rhyme, I understand, we are all different For me, a poem without a rhyme, is like a bird without a song a morning without a sunrise Oh how my mind looks for the rhyme when it is time to tap into the primordial human…

Not long ago, I expressed this thought as a short post on LinkedIn. The longer I have thought about it and watched too many get sucked into the hype I have decided to expand on that thought with this post. So let’s start with my view that blockchain, which Bitcoin…

Looking across the snow covered field towards the dawn of a new day Looking across the snow covered field towards my thinking of a new way The sun cracks the sky like a glowing red sword, a new piece of clay As the new day starts and fresh ideas take…

Though I joined Medium as a paying member I do realize that there is a finite limit to the number of people that a platform like Medium can support. I am not talking about hardware or storage. No, I am talking about the complete and utter imbalance between writers and…