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Adrian Cockcroft

Personal blog · adrianco.medium.comsystemsprogrammingai

Adrian Cockcroft writes Stories by adrian cockcroft on Medium, a personal blog at adrianco.medium.com about systems, programming and ai. Since 2023, 18 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “Signs that it's time to leave a company”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-28, and you can follow it by feed.

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18mentions?
18HN people?
2023–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 8 in 2024

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Adrian Cockcroft's posts on signs it's time to leave a company and his experiences renting electric cars from Hertz. Commenters cite them as context for news stories.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Signs that it's time to leave a company
    6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2023-12-31
  2. So many bad takes. Learn from the Prime Video microservices to monolith story
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-05-07
  3. Platform Engineering Teams Done Right
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-02-13

What Hacker News says?

  1. Reminds me of the recent blog post by Sir Adrian Cockcroft. Signs that it’s time to leave a company… https://adrianco.medium.com/signs-that-its-time-to-leave-a-c...

    Comment linking /signs-that-its-time-to-leave-a-company-5f8759ad018e

    on “Culture Change at Google”
  2. Submitted Signs that it's time to leave a company as a story · 546 points

    HN discussion
  3. Funny, I read this just recently. https://adrianco.medium.com/signs-that-its-time-to-leave-a-c...

    Comment linking /signs-that-its-time-to-leave-a-company-5f8759ad018e

    on “Twitch to Cut 500 Employees, About 35% of Staff”
  4. Submitted What Adrian Did Next – Part 2 – Sun Microsystems (2022) as a story · 84 points

    HN discussion
  5. Adrian Cockcroft wrote about his Hertz experiences back in April. Update: Bad experiences renting electric cars from Hertz https://adrianco.medium.com/experiences-renting-electric-car...

    Comment linking /experiences-renting-electric-cars-from-hertz-c662d28d55cc

    on “Hertz to sell 20k EVs in shift back to gas-powered cars”
  6. Submitted So many bad takes. Learn from the Prime Video microservices to monolith story as a story · 24 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Signs that it's time to leave a company as a story · 18 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Signs that it's time to leave a company as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Signs that it's time to leave a company as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Supercomputing Predictions: Custom CPUs, CXL3.0, and Petalith Architectures as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted The Internet is down – It was DNS, again as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Directing AI Native Development as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Adrian Cockcroft Response to Prime Video Blog Post as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Percentiles don’t work:Analyzing the distribution response times for webservices as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Adrianco's Retort: measure how reliable, fast and expensive your LLM is as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted We Need a Purpose-Driven Agent-Based Developer Management Platform as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Platform Engineering Teams Done Right as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Platform Engineering Teams Done Right as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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