I tried that with a so called credit checking agency in the UK called "Credit Expert". These [scumbags] deserve a Dark Pattern gold star. To see your credit score you have to sign up with a credit card for a subscription. They know full well that everyone wants to just make sure that their credit score is ok, not be charged a monthly rate. They tell you it will cost X a month so you try to cancel within the given time. You have to call a phone number- can't do it online. That's also deliberate. You have to wait x minutes on the phone until you get to their cancellations department. I tell them I want to cancel. They say I 'signed up' and cancelled a year before so they are going to charge me the first month anyway. I am forced to accept and I call my bank a perform a chargeback. 2 months later the chargeback is reversed and I'm charged the full amount because the bank apparently investigated and deemed it a valid transaction.
I'm not affiliated with it but Agent Ransack just does search the old fashioned way, but fast. Sear inside files works properly too, without waiting for some sort of index that may, or may not be complete.
I guess the unpopular bit is the insinuation that the following happens with Apple repeatedly: Somebody develops an industry standard, Apple implements it, people start claiming that Apple invented it.
Why don't interviewers just have a conversation or is that so totally lost these days? I find it a whole lot easier to just ask the right technical questions in the first 2 mins. to decide on hiring.
I keep seeing more and more dis-associative non-communication being presented where the interviewer attempts to do less and less. Its lazy and a crap way to treat people.
That my plan too. By using dual clouds (again in UK and US), we're getting the highest failover protection we can afford. I can't afford our e-commerce platform to be down and the evidence shows that a single cloud is robust enough. We call it "Cloud Docking" :)