A quick guide on running Elastic Search with plugins in Docker. This is ideal for running Elastic Search locally during development. All of the docs I’ve found on how to do this are out of date and no longer work.

The premise is simple. Create a local Docker image based on the official Elastic Search image, installing the Elastic Search plugins you require. Your Dockerfile will look something like the following, where ingest-attachment is whatever plugin you want to install.

FROM …

Here we look at two closely related concepts - the behaviour of Typescript’s type system, and how we can get the type of an object at runtime. We dive into structural typing, nominal typing, Typescript’s value and type spaces, classes, and enums.

Typescript is a structurally typed language. This means that types are identified by their shape rather than name or alias. We can see this …

One of my goals for 2019 was to improve my skills and knowledge around Product Delivery. What is Product Delivery? I’d define it as a set of practices, attitudes, and tools which can be used to improve the quality of software and the speed at which it’s delivered to customers. It’s a large field which takes in areas of Lean Product Development, Agile, Software Development, DevOps, and SRE. My approach was to read a lot of books and blogs on these topics and discuss the ideas with …

St Bathans is an old gold mining town in Central Otago. It was established in the 1860s to support miners and is now nearly abandoned. It’s still a popular tourist spot with the blue lakes (photograph below) an iconic scene of the old sluicings.