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Acquia
Company blog · acquia.com/blogwebprogramming
Acquia is the company blog at acquia.com, writing about web and programming. Since 2009, 32 different Hacker News readers have linked it 60 times, most often “Circumventing the Drupal 7 SQL Injection at Acquia”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (24) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters mostly link Acquia's pages as references: its Drupal hosting and Acquia Cloud products, a blog post on platform-level Drupal security patches, and press releases. Several comments are job ads.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 24 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Acquia provides the leading cloud platform for building, delivering, and optimizing digital experiences.
Most-linked posts?
- Circumventing the Drupal 7 SQL Injection at Acquia3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-10-17
What Hacker News says?
Burlington, MA - full time Acquia is looking for great cloud engineers. Positions for junior and senior candidates are available. Come help us grow our cloud which runs Drupal, Solr and other open source technologies on thousands of AWS machines and is rapidly expanding. Acquia provides commercial support and hosting for Drupal projects and large scale Drupal websites. We were recently named the fastest growing soft…
Comment linking /careers/job-listing/cloud-software-engineer
on “Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (September 2012)”Submitted A Look at PHP's Continuing Evolution as a story · 86 points
HN discussionhttps://groups.drupal.org/government-sites https://www.acquia.com/blog/drupal-for-government https://www.drupal.org/industries/government https://www.zyxware.com/article/6229/top-7-reasons-why-drupa... https://www.drupal.org/openplus https://www.applytosupply.digitalmarketplace.service.gov.uk/... Now most may be a stretch, it's a hard metric to calculate without going around and counting every gov site. But for Engl…
Comment linking /blog/drupal-for-government
on “Weather.gov 2.0”Submitted High Quality PHP as a story · 56 points
HN discussionBoston, MA and Portland, OR - Fulltime and Internships Acquia is looking for great DevOps and Ops engineers to help us build and run one of the largest PaaS platforms in the world. We run 6000+ servers on Amazon's Cloud doing billions of pageviews every month. Our platform is focused on delivering Drupal optimized PHP hosting but on the backend we're using everything from Ruby and Python to Cassandra and Solr to bes…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2013)”Submitted PHP is as secure as any other major language as a story · 39 points
HN discussionBurlington, MA - Acquia (www.acquia.com) Lots of open positions. The team I work with is looking for an automation engineer ( https://www.acquia.com/careers/job-listing/automation-engine... ). Lots of internal and external tooling with Ruby on EC2 in a CI environment for web-based products. Some of the buzzwords: Ruby, Cucumber, Capybara, Jenkins, EC2, S3, Varnish, NginX. We're basically looking for somebody who kno…
Comment linking /careers/open-positions
on “Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (June 2012)”Submitted The Role of Responsive Web Design as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI’m not a Mautic user, but its future looks brighter now that they were acquired by the company behind Drupal. https://www.acquia.com/about-us/newsroom/press-releases/acqu...
Comment linking /about-us/newsroom/press-releases/acquia-acquires-mautic-to-deliver-first-ever-open-marketing-cloud
on “Every software system used at Gitlab”Submitted Harvard Demo of OpenScholar distro of OpenScholar as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttp://acquia.com/
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on “The Drupal Crisis”Submitted Accelerating Drupal Adoption with Distributions as a story · 3 points
HN discussionBurlington, MA - full time Portland, OR - full time Acquia is looking for great DevOps cloud engineers to help us build tools to manage our thousands of AWS servers and optimize our PAAS offering. Positions for junior and senior candidates are available. Our cloud is optimized to host Drupal (PHP) but we code primarily in Ruby and host everything from Ruby apps to Solr to ElasticSearch to Cassandra. Acquia provides…
Comment linking /careers/job-listing/cloud-software-engineer
on “Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (October 2012) ”Submitted Accelerating Drupal 8 Adoption as a story · 2 points
HN discussionLooking for hosted Solr solutions I found also: http://www.opensolr.com/ http://www.solrhq.com/ http://www.midwesternmac.com/services/hosted-solr-search http://www.netaphorsearch.com/products/solr-hosting http://www.acquia.com/products-services/acquia-network/cloud... (they're mainly targeted to drupal) anything else?
Comment linking /products-services/acquia-network/cloud-services/acquia-search
on “Amazon CloudSearch - Start Searching in One Hour for Less Than $100 / Month”Submitted Circumventing the Drupal 7 SQL Injection at Acquia as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWhere is this elite Drupal employment world that the OA speaks of? http://www.acquia.com/customers Just one subset, of course. Doesn't include customers of other major vendors.
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on “Drupal's Golden Handcuffs”Submitted Demo Framework: A distribution pretty much guaranteed to blow their minds as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI would talk to services like the below to partner with them as an extra feature for their customers to improve their apps and sites UX and targeting. * http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/ * https://www.optimizely.com/ I would also try partnering with specialized cloud hosting solutions like * https://www.heroku.com/ * http://www.acquia.com/ * https://www.getpantheon.com/ Unless you are seeing keen interest from peop…
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on “Propose HN: Screenshot Saturday”Submitted Explaining Varnish for Beginners as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAcquia's response: https://www.acquia.com/blog/cold-truth-about-cold-call
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on “The Redhat of Drupal”Submitted Ultimate Guide to Drupal 8: Episode 2 – Mobile Improvements as a story · 2 points
HN discussion"Unnecessarily endanger the representative"? He didn't set a puppy on fire and post it to 4chan, he sent an embarrassing piece of spam. I don't think the wordpress folks are going to load up in their six-faws[1] and shoot up the guy's house. Edit: Also, he's right here -- full name and picture, even -- on Acquia's own public site: http://www.acquia.com/about-us/team/dillon-vassallo [1] http://www.urbandictionary.com…
Comment linking /about-us/team/dillon-vassallo
on “The Redhat of Drupal”Submitted Is Implementing Continuous Integration Worth It? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI get a similar certificate, but it includes www.technologyreview.com. They're all being hosted by https://www.acquia.com/ , maybe? (Using one certificate seems...suboptimal.)
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on “Why We Can't Solve Big Problems”Submitted Why PHP is for Real as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIf you're interested in ramping up quickly with Drupal 8, there's a completely free Drupal 8 class available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtaXuX0nEZk9MKY_ClWcP... There's over 60 videos. It's sponsored by http://Acquia.com (the biggest fish in the Drupal pond) and created by http://OSTraining.com , who are one of the top sources for Drupal videos.
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on “Drupal 8.0.0 released”Submitted How Acquia manages thousands of AWS instances as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThere are a few, such as Pantheon[1], Acquia Cloud[2], Platform.sh[3]. All three of the above providers did add some level of protection immediately following the security announcement, and they (and some other providers) helped ensure sites were updated to 7.32 as soon as possible. I have to link back to my earlier comment about the key takeaway here[4]—not just for Drupal sites, but for anyone who operates any sit…
Comment linking /products-services/acquia-cloud
on “Up to 12M websites may have been compromised via Drupal vulnerability”Submitted Web design company as a story · 1 points
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