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Articles by Colin Surprenant
Principal Software Engineer, Elastic
Colin is a software engineer at Elastic working on Logstash. He is an open source software developer and passionate self-starter working with Internet technologies, distributed and scalable architectures, real-time data, and stream processing.
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