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Don't Symlink Indices in ElasticSearch!

Don't Symlink Indices in ElasticSearch!

The other day I've been trying to improve the downtime when updating an index in elasticsearch (ES) and I've decided the best approach would be to create a new index and do a symlink to the active one, keeping the valid index. so, my structure would

Fuzzy String Matching in PostgreSQL

Fuzzy String Matching in PostgreSQL

A database I am working on has a lot of records (40M+) and the guys mining it are currently using python to process it. This is very powerful (nltk) but also quite slow. One of the guys has found that you can do fuzzy string matching straight in Postgres and

IntelliJ: Change the default cache location (e.g. .IntelliJIdeaXX)

IntelliJ: Change the default cache location (e.g. .IntelliJIdeaXX)

Everything started from a problem I had with PyCharm, where it would create a ".PyCharm30" directory in my home, which would end up being about 300Mb, with a lot of files (2000+files, approx 200 directories). This gets taxed since my home dire gets synced at login/logout