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I always recommend Airalo to collegues. I travel a reasonable amount and Airalo has been reliable for me and available in a lot of countries. Last year they didn't have Singapore (I think this was re-added?) and it was annoying and expensive to buy an eSim at the airport. Reminded me how great their service is.

Grafana Labs employee here => On the linked articles: I'm not aware of any caching being used in the writing data to S3 part of the pipeline other then some time based/volume based buffering at the ingester microservices before writing the chunks of data to object storage.

The linked Loki caching docs/articles are for optimising the read access patterns of S3/object storage, not for writes.

lol. clearly a ChatGPT answer

+1 Loki is designed for object storage as backend. Persisting all data (so not storage tiering) on object storage vs local storage gives you cost savings, increased durability and simplified operational at scale.

SAP Concur is a complete nightmare for managing expenses. It's so bad that it will ruin your entire weekend, leaving you feeling frustrated and drained. The interface is a convoluted mess that is practically impossible to navigate, and entering expenses takes forever.

The expense categorization system is an abomination that will drive you insane with its constant mistakes and errors. The approval process is a black hole that sucks up your expenses and never spits them back out. I feel SAP Concur is the worst software ever created for expense management, and using it makes me wish I never had to do expenses again.

Expensify is so much better. The OCR isn't great though

besides the short network outage a few weeks ago it has been rock solid for me in the CA datacenter

I'm with OVH because of their NA presence (Canada). Prefer dedicated servers because of the bang for the buck. Hopefully that's in Hetzner's roadmap too