Zomato Blog
blog.zomato.com · Company blog · on HN since 2015
Zomato's company blog, covering its engineering work on logging and observability, plus its 2017 data breach and security updates.
What HN saysHN links it for the ClickHouse logging write-up, where commenters discuss compression, and for Zomato's account of the breach and the researcher behind it.
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isburmistrov · 2024-02-28
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-elasticsearch… https://clickhouse.com/blog/100x-faster-graphql-hive-migration-from-el… https://blog.zomato.com/building-a-cost-effective-logging-platform-usi…
yashendra2797 · 2017-05-28
To 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-what-really-h…
sealord · 2017-05-28
It 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-what-really-h…
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 Nazi mouthpiece for years before the war, so all their stuff's got to be inaccurate/biased.