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blog.zomato.com is the company blog at blog.zomato.com, writing about programming and startups. Since 2015, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “Building a cost-effective logging platform using ClickHouse for petabyte scale”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Zomato's engineering blog for its Wide Events observability post and its 2016 security update responding to a reported data breach. The comments mostly cite these posts as sources.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Building a cost-effective logging platform using ClickHouse for petabyte scale3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-07-25
- Zomato dev's same credentials on GitHub and 000webhost led to 17M accounts hack3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-05-24
- Zomato finds advertising on porn sites is cheaper and has higher ROI2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-12-15
- Zomato starts monetary payment for Bug Bounty after hack2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-05-18
What Hacker News says?
I think the storage architecture in ClickHouse and Elastic are very different. And I think compression in ClickHouse can be really damn good. Don't have a good comparison at hands though, but a few random links on the topic: https://engineeringat.axis.com/schema-changes-clickhouse/ https://clickhouse.com/blog/contentsquare-migration-from-ela... https://clickhouse.com/blog/100x-faster-graphql-hive-migrati... https://…
Comment linking /building-a-cost-effective-logging-platform-using-clickhouse-for-petabyte-scale
on “All you need is Wide Events, not "Metrics, Logs and Traces"”Submitted Zomato security breach: 17M email addresses and hashed passwords leaked as a story · 115 points
HN discussionTo clarify, the hacker was actually a researcher who put the data online to draw Zomato's attention of a vulnerability he'd disclosed to them more than a year ago. Here's the more interesting part: As per some sources the data used MD5 with a 2(!) character salt. EDIT: Here's some more info from Zomato's side: http://blog.zomato.com/post/160986258541/security-update-wha...
Comment linking /post/160986258541/security-update-what-really-happened-and-what
on “Hacker steals 17M users' data from restaurant app Zomato”Submitted Zomato acquires Urbanspoon as a story · 6 points
HN discussionIt was clarified later that the "hacker" was a security professional who put up all that data on the Dark Web to draw Zomato's attention to loopholes in its systems. http://blog.zomato.com/post/160986258541/security-update-wha... Edit - Turns out the OP's article mentions the same thing. Might as well confess a personal bias - every time I see a Daily Mail article, I can't help but think about how they served as a N…
on “Hacker steals 17M users' data from restaurant app Zomato”Submitted Building a cost-effective logging platform using ClickHouse for petabyte scale as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Migrating to VictoriaMetrics: A Complete Overhaul for Enhanced Observability as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a cost-effective logging platform using ClickHouse for petabyte scale as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Zomato finds advertising on porn sites is cheaper and has higher ROI as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Food Rescue: An initiative to minimize food wastage as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Security Update – initiatives to create a more secure Zomato as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Zomato: Security Update – What really happened? And what next? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Zomato dev's same credentials on GitHub and 000webhost led to 17M accounts hack as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Zomato starts monetary payment for Bug Bounty after hack as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted This post is (probably) safe for work as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Zomato Security Notice Update as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Deepinder Goyal's announcement on Zomato's valuation being slashed down as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Zomato copied Eat24's porn website marketing hack as a story · 1 points
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