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Willy Tarreau

Personal blog · 1wt.eu/articlessystemsprogramming

Willy Tarreau's personal blog at 1wt.eu covers systems and programming. Since 2010, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Stateless ZIP library – SLZ”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-17, and you can follow it by feed.

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8mentions?
8HN people?
2010–2016first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2010

Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Willy Tarreau's site for his articles and projects on small, fast compression (libslz), embedded ARM hardware such as the GuruPlug, and timer and load-balancing designs.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Willy TARREAU

Most-linked posts?

  1. Stateless ZIP library – SLZ
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-09-03
  2. Making applications scalable with Load Balancing [2006]
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-01-25
  3. /articles/guruplug-slow-heater/
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-06-29

What Hacker News says?

  1. aqrit · 2016-08-31
    use slz ( http://1wt.eu/projects/libslz/ ) for web traffic and non-beefy servers.

    Comment linking /projects/libslz/

    on “Smaller and faster data compression with Zstandard”
  2. marcopolis · 2015-09-03

    Submitted Stateless ZIP library – SLZ as a story · 129 points

    HN discussion
  3. duck · 2010-06-29
    Thanks, but sounds like there is some heat issues with the guruplug: http://1wt.eu/articles/guruplug-slow-heater/ http://plugcomputer.org/plugforum/index.php?topic=1735.60

    Comment linking /articles/guruplug-slow-heater/

    on “Review: $99 TonidoPlug Linux Home Server, NAS”
  4. peterwwillis · 2010-01-25

    Submitted Making applications scalable with Load Balancing [2006] as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. 10ren · 2010-06-29
    http://1wt.eu/articles/guruplug-slow-heater/ The heat seems to be a design issue - he mentions the bus being only 16 bits wide. I'd hate to think ARM chips don't scale up after all... Here's performance numbers from a "SheevaPlug". Seems about half the power of an equivalent intel CPU, but its floating point performance is about 1/35 (like, really bad; no hardware FP). File serving isn't FP intensive though. Around…

    Comment linking /articles/guruplug-slow-heater/

    on “Review: $99 TonidoPlug Linux Home Server, NAS”
  6. daurnimator · 2016-07-06
    Other/better implementations: http://1wt.eu/articles/ebtree/ http://25thandclement.com/~william/projects/timeout.c.html

    Comment linking /articles/ebtree/

    on “Implementing Software Timers (1990)”
  7. f1gm3nt · 2010-12-30Recommends
    In the PDF it links to http://1wt.eu/articles/2006_lb/ which is the paper in html format. For those that don't want to download the PDF, good read =)

    Comment linking /articles/2006_lb/

    on “Making Applications Scale With Load Balancing (or how the Internet works)”
  8. oso2k · 2015-10-26
    You can find the original miniz [0] on github, btw. Other small and/or fast lz* decoders are tinfl [1], stateless lz [2][3], lz4 (my favorite) [4], fastlz [5]. [0] https://github.com/richgel999/miniz [1] https://github.com/richgel999/miniz/blob/master/tinfl.c [2] https://github.com/haproxy/libslz [3] http://1wt.eu/projects/libslz/ [4] https://github.com/Cyan4973/lz4 [5] https://code.google.com/p/fastlz/

    Comment linking /projects/libslz/

    on “Show HN: Mini_gzip – embeddable, minimal, in-memory Gzip API”

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