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Red Badger

Company blog · red-badger.com/blogprogrammingweb

Red Badger is the company blog at red-badger.com, writing about programming and web. Since 2012, 19 different Hacker News readers have linked it 75 times, most often “Red Badger go way back with Elasticsearch: a guide to getting started”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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75mentions?
19HN people?
2012–2018first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 18 in 2015

Too few sampled comments (15) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Mostly cited in 'Who is hiring' threads for job listings from the London digital consultancy. One commenter links its getting-started Elasticsearch post as a beginner-friendly intro.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 15 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

We craft seamless, engaging digital experiences customers want and that separates you from the competition. Build a product in 100 days with Red Badger.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Red Badger go way back with Elasticsearch: a guide to getting started
    2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2013-11-13
  2. Senior Software Engineer Consultant
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-08-20
  3. Continuous Integration and Deployment with Node.js, Travis CI & Capistrano
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-02-01

What Hacker News says?

  1. Red Badger, Full Stack Engineers,London UK, ONSITE (No remote) Red Badger is a digital consultancy building enterprise scale web apps for customers such as The BBC, Fortnum and Mason and The Financial Times. We use a whole host of tech - heaps of React, Redux, GraphQL, Node, Ruby, Java, Serverless and more We have a super talented team (there's around 90 of us now), we work in cross functional teams and are very pas…

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2017)”
  2. Submitted Understanding the Enigma machine from “The Imitation Game” with 30 Lines of Ruby as a story · 84 points

    HN discussion
  3. Red Badger, Senior Software Engineer Consultant, London UK, ONSITE (No remote) We are a digital consultancy made up of close to 100 team mates working on digital transformation projects for clients such as Fortnum and Mason, The BBC and Tesco. Our clients provide us with complex challenges which we tackle in cross functional teams made up of talented developers, UX and Digital Designers, Delivery Leads and Testers.…

    Comment linking /about-us/join-us/senior-software-engineer-consultant

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2017)”
  4. Submitted React Native – When the Mobile Web Isn’t Enough as a story · 17 points

    HN discussion
  5. Red Badger | London, UK | Full Stack Engineer Mid&Senior | Onsite | Full Time Independent digital consultancy known for delivery and digital transformation working on enterprise scale web applications. We love: React/Native, Javascript, Node, Java, Ruby (more tech here: https://red-badger.com/technology ) We are on the hunt for a friendly new badger who enjoys complex problems, talking to clients and a working on a…

    Comment linking /jobs?hn

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2018)”
  6. Submitted A truly serverless web (a fireside chat about the Beaker browser) as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  7. London, UK, Red Badger red-badger.com Full time, onsite only. Relocation considered Red Badger is looking for a talented full stack developer with strong Node.js or Ruby. We are using React.js on most of our projects and run the london.react user group. http://red-badger.com/about-us/join-us/software-engineer/ We build beautiful software with bleeding edge tech for great brands like Fortnum & Mason and Tesco. We are…

    Comment linking /about-us/join-us/software-engineer/

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2016)”
  8. Submitted Git and GitHub in Plain English as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  9. London, UK, Red Badger red-badger.com Full time, onsite only. Relocation considered. Red Badger is looking for a talented full stack developer with strong Node.js or Ruby. We are using React.js on most of our projects and run the london.react user group. http://red-badger.com/about-us/join-us/software-engineer/ We build beautiful software with bleeding edge tech for great brands like Fortnum & Mason and Tesco. We ar…

    Comment linking /about-us/join-us/software-engineer/

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2016)”
  10. Submitted Automating your Infrastructure with Vagrant & Chef – Development to the Cloud as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  11. London, UK, Red Badger red-badger.com Full time, onsite only, we will relocate from USA and Europe. Red Badger is looking for a talented full stack developer with strong Node.js or Ruby. We are using React.js on most of our projects and run the london.react user group. http://red-badger.com/about-us/join-us/software-engineer/ We build beautiful software with bleeding edge tech for great brands like Fortnum & Mason a…

    Comment linking /about-us/join-us/software-engineer/

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2016)”
  12. Submitted Deadline Driven Development: Just Stop as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  13. Red Badger | Full Stack Software Engineer | London | PERM | ONSITE | www.red-badger.com Friendly independent consultancy based in Old Street, delivering complex enterprise web applications for big brands such as the Financial Times, Tesco, the BBC and many others. We also work on a number of social value projects including the Pride in London App. TDD, pair programming, code reviews are part of our agile delivery pr…

    Comment linking /jobs/software-engineer-consultant-node-java-javascript-react-native

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2018)”
  14. Submitted Fortnum and Mason – Slack Deployments, Confident Delivery as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  15. Red Badger | London, UK | Full Stack | ONSITE | Full Time We are an independent digital consultancy known for delivery and digital transformation. Currently on the hunt for a middle level and senior badger to join one of our X functional, tight knit teams working on large complex problems. We love React/React Native, Node, Java, Ruby, Javascript (Find out more about our tech here: https://red-badger.com/technology )…

    Comment linking /jobs/senior-software-engineer-consultant

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2018)”
  16. Submitted React Native – The Killer Feature That Nobody Talks About as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  17. Red Badger | London, UK | Full Stack Engineer Mid&Senior | Onsite | Full Time Independent digital consultancy known for delivery and digital transformation working on enterprise scale web applications. We love: React/Native, Javascript, Node, Java, Ruby (more tech here: https://red-badger.com/technology ) We are on the hunt for a friendly new badger who enjoys complex problems, talking to clients and a working on a…

    Comment linking /jobs/senior-software-engineer-consultant

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2018)”
  18. Submitted GraphQL and The Open Movie Database. From introspection to Inception. as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  19. Red Badger, Full Stack Engineers,London UK, ONSITE Red Badger is a digital consultancy building enterprise scale web apps for customers such as The BBC, Fortnum and Mason and The Financial Times. We use a whole host of tech - heaps of React, Redux, GraphQL, Node, Ruby, Java, Serverless and more We have a super talented team (there's around 90 of us now), we work in cross functional teams and are very passionate abou…

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2017)”
  20. Submitted React Europe and GraphQL as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  21. Red Badger, East London, ONSITE, Red Badger is looking for a talented full stack developer with strong Ruby/ Node.js. React.js would be a bonus. http://red-badger.com/about-us/join-us/software-engineer/ We build beautiful software with bleeding edge tech for great brands like Fortnum & Mason and Sky. We are lean, agile and like to do things properly. Sound interesting? Send us your CV, Stackoverflow profile, Github,…

    Comment linking /about-us/join-us/software-engineer/

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2015)”
  22. Submitted Announcing Arch, an open source functional style application framework for React as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  23. Red Badger- London- Full Time Red Badger is looking for a talented full stack developer with strong Ruby/ Node.js. React.js would be a bonus. http://red-badger.com/about-us/join-us/software-engineer/ We build beautiful software with bleeding edge tech for great brands like Fortnum & Mason and Sky. We are lean, agile and like to do things properly. Sound interesting? Send us your CV, Stackoverflow profile, Github, co…

    Comment linking /about-us/join-us/software-engineer/

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2015)”
  24. Submitted React Native – When the Mobile Web Isn’t Enough as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  25. London UK: Red Badger - http://red-badger.com We're a creative software workshop working on the leading edge of tech. We've been implementing Node.js projects for enterprise size clients for 2 years now. Our team is the perfect balance between creative and tech. Our UX people understand the technical limitations of what they are designing. Our techies understand UX. Everyone sits side-by-side and they talk, solving…

    Comment linking /about-us/join-us/

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2013)”
  26. Submitted Ansible as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  27. jackhoy · 2014-03-21Recommends
    If you want to set up Elasticsearch and have a quick play around with some queries I have written a beginner friendly intro which you may find useful: http://red-badger.com/blog/2013/11/08/getting-started-with-e... Looking forward to reading this book! Elasticsearch has been a great tool for us.

    Comment linking /blog/2013/11/08/getting-started-with-elasticsearch/

    on “Elasticsearch – the definitive guide”
  28. Submitted Berkshelf & The Application Cookbook Pattern as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  29. Location: London Remote: Sure Willing to relocate: No, unless it's unbelievably rad. Technologies: Full-stack web engineer, with experience all to way from Oracle DBs to Styled-Components. Comfortable at all layers. Recently, a lot of React and AWS. Resume/CV: http://marcel.gg Email: me ;;at;; marcelcutts ;; .com I'm a full stack engineer looking for some new impactful work to get stuck into. If you're pushing the b…

    Comment linking /our-work/case-study/retailer

    on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2017)”
  30. Submitted Sorry Bootstrap, it's over between us as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion

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