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Sync data from MongoDb to ElasticSearch using Transporter

Recently, My team has been asked to implement a web crawler to index the content of a few websites and save those data into some database for further analysis. After a long discussion we decided to go with MongoDB and elasticsearch. Elasticsearch facilitates full text search of the data, while

DockerCon Europe 2017: Trip report

DockerCon Europe 2017 was held on October 16-18 in Copenhagen, and guess what ?! It was awesomely amazing. This was my first time at DockerCon, I had lot of fun with my fellow Amine hakkou, learned many new things, made a list of some very cool open source projects to check,

Using Redis as Buffer in the ELK stack

Redis, the popular open source in-memory data store, has been used as a persistent on-disk database that supports a variety of data structures such as lists, sets, sorted sets (with range queries), strings, geospatial indexes (with radius queries), bitmaps, hashes, and HyperLogLogs. Today, the in-memory store is used to solve

jBPM RESTful API: getting started

JBPM is a flexible Business Process Management (BPM) Suite. It is lightweight, fully open-source and written in Java. It allows to model, execute, and monitor business processes throughout their life cycle. Recently I started prototyping the idea of using it as a solution to meet the workflow needs of a

Using Docker Compose & Mysql to set up a ghost blog

This is a post that I wanted to write long time ago, but I finally had time to. At this point, if you look closely, it should come as no surprise that my blog is powered by Ghost, it's also deployed inside a Docker container. Ghost is a widely used

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