We've got a couple of these kinds of applications where I work. All built on RabbitMq / MassTransit. Without smart logging it would be real frustrating to track down issues. You could put breakpoints everywhere locally, but that's a pain.
Tools like Seq are really helpful during development. ELK stack / splunk / log aggregator X are almost required on the non-local environments.
Hey neighbor, just relocated from Houston to Greenville. There wasn't as much disparity between cost of living the west coasters have, but not living in a giant parking has been great for myself and my family.
I saw these guys at Velocity in NY this year. Pretty impressive product. I felt like the query language they built was easier to work with than setting up queries and filters in elasticsearch's api.
As someone looking to move to the Greenville area I was interested in this, as a programmer / technology enthusiast I'm confused as to why it's here...
C# / Asp.net pays my bills, but I've been playing with node.js lately. Just to kind of see what the hubbub was.
I took Ryan Dahl's chat room demo and added a database for validating users & message logging. I've added a couple commands that allow users to change their nicknames on the fly and some other feeble functionality.
I think eventually i'd like for users to be able to run javascript across all sessions, which could be a complete mess or kind of cool.
I'm no rails guru, but I have but together quite a few professional CMS's and use it almost exclusively for homebrew projects, and I've never felt like I needed a heavyweight IDE.
This simplified the ELK stack setup a whole bunch.