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After building search functionality for multiple startups and watching countless developers struggle with Elasticsearch setup, I’ve learned that most tutorials either oversimplify or overcomplicate the process. Here’s the setup that actually works in 2025. Why Elasticsearch 9.1 Changes Everything In August 2024, Elasticsearch returned to open source under the AGPL license starting with version 8.16.0. Version 9.1.0 is now fully open source, which means you can finally use it without license concerns for most projects. ...

Why I Ditched Docker Desktop and You Should Too: A Complete Guide to Alternatives in 2025 After Docker Desktop crashed my M2 MacBook for the third time this week while eating 4GB of RAM to run a simple Node.js container, I finally had enough. That breaking point led me down a rabbit hole of Docker alternatives that honestly should have happened years ago. Here’s what I discovered after testing every major Docker Desktop alternative, complete with performance benchmarks, migration headaches, and brutally honest takes on what actually works. ...