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Agile Testing
Personal blog · agiletesting.blogspot.comprogrammingsystems
Agile Testing is a personal blog at agiletesting.blogspot.com about programming and systems. Since 2008, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “Automated deployment systems: push vs. pull ”. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog for practical posts: a workaround for Firefox's port-banning block via about:config, and a post on dark launching as part of feature toggles. No commenter comments on the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Did anybody say webscale?
Most-linked posts?
- Automated deployment systems: push vs. pull 2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-03-07
What Hacker News says?
"This address is restricted This address uses a network port which is normally used for purposes other than Web browsing. Firefox has canceled the request for your protection. " This 'port banning' is described in http://www-archive.mozilla.org/projects/netlib/PortBanning.h... , and the page at http://agiletesting.blogspot.com/2008/09/getting-around-fire... describes how you can use about:config to disable the block…
Comment linking /2008/09/getting-around-firefox-port-blocking.html
on “65k Open TCP Ports”Submitted Deploying Tornado in production as a story · 39 points
HN discussion> I never understood why some people are scared of branching. Well this is branching (in the same way that if..else is branching), just not in the VCS. What's the advantage? This methodology can allow code to go to production for some or all users, either as dark launches ( http://agiletesting.blogspot.com/2009/07/dark-launching-and-... ) or as production code. VCS branching gives you none of that, and sometimes you…
Comment linking /2009/07/dark-launching-and-other-lessons-from.html
on “Feature Toggles”Submitted Experiences deploying a large-scale infrastructure in Amazon EC2 as a story · 37 points
HN discussionSubmitted Load Balancing in Amazon EC2 with HAProxy as a story · 32 points
HN discussionSubmitted The dangers of uniformity as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted An ode to running a database on bare metal as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lessons learned from deploying a production database in EC2 as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Agile Testing: Docker Orchestration with Rancher as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Automated deployment systems: push vs. pull as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Automated deployment systems: push vs. pull as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Easy parsing with pyparsing as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Initial experiences with the Prometheus monitoring system as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using libcloud to manage instances across multiple cloud providers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to whip your infrastructure into shape as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Running Gatling load tests in Docker containers via Jenkins as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Things to know when starting out as a sysadmin as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Links to resources from PyCon talks as a story · 1 points
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