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Ala Shiban
Personal blog · alashiban.comsystemsprogramming
Ala Shiban's personal blog at alashiban.com covers systems and programming. Since 2013, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “You may not need that costly, time-consuming infra re-org”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Ala Shiban's posts on why infrastructure reorganisations fail and on building a search over 15,000 pitch deck slides with OCR and Algolia. Comments are mostly the author's own promotion.
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.
Ala Shiban — notes and essays on platform engineering, cloud architecture, and building things with people.
Most-linked posts?
- You may not need that costly, time-consuming infra re-org2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-12-04
- /search-the-deck/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-01-27
What Hacker News says?
Hey friends! I recently published a blog post discussing common infrastructure reorganization models that companies adopt and why they often fail. After interviewing dozens of engineering leaders and infrastructure teams over the past two years, I've noticed companies tend to evolve their infrastructure orgs into a few canonical forms with distinct tradeoffs. The post covers: - 4 primary infrastructure org models -…
Comment linking /you-may-not-need-that-costly-time-consuming-infra-re-org/
on “Why Infra Re-Orgs Fail: Lessons/Tradeoffs Learned from Interviews”Submitted You may not need that costly, time-consuming infra re-org as a story · 20 points
HN discussionGlad it helps! There are 4 key steps that I took: - Upscaling (using Upscayl[0]) - OCR (using tesseract[1]) - Indexing (using Algolia[2]) - Scaling the processing and running on AWS (Klotho[3] - our startup) I wrote a more in-depth blog post about it[4] [0] https://github.com/upscayl/upscayl [1] https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract [2] https://www.algolia.com/ [3] https://github.com/KlothoPlatform/klotho [4] h…
Comment linking /search-the-deck/
on “Show HN: Search – inside – 15,000 pitchdeck slides”Submitted Native Win8.1 app + TypeScript + Opensource in 17 minutes as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYou might enjoy the blog post[0] (150GB of images, tesseract OCR, 2GB of data, Algolia for search). There's a github repo too[1] [0]: https://www.alashiban.com/search-the-deck/ [1]: https://github.com/klothoplatform/klotho
Comment linking /search-the-deck/
on “Show HN: Search – inside – 15,000 pitchdeck slides”Submitted Running XBMC on Amazon FireTV as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Infra Re-Orgs Fail: Lessons/Tradeoffs Learned from Interviews as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Platform Engineering Landmines – Part 1 (2023) as a story · 1 points
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