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my name is Giuseppe Santoro.
I'm a Senior Software Engineer working at Elastic (creator of Elasticsearch).
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The articles I’m most proud of:
Taskfile: a modern alternative to Makefile
Summary: How I replaced Makefile with a combination of Taskfile, Direnv, Devenv to automate all my tasks.
My first "viral" article with 9.94k views (and counting) on Substack, 98 points and 212 comments on Hackernews, 3.4k views and 2k reads on Medium.
Elasticsearch: ‘ignore_malformed’, The Antidote for Mapping Exceptions
Summary: Discover how an Elasticsearch flag allows you to ignore mapping exceptions at ingestion time.
My very first blog post on the official Elastic blog.
I worked on this feature while at Elastic.
Shrink to Secure: Kubernetes and Compact Containers
Summary: Open source tools to build secure and compact containers
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