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Alexander Holbreich
Personal blog · alexander.holbreich.orgprogrammingsystems
Alexander Holbreich's personal blog at alexander.holbreich.org covers programming and systems. Since 2010, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 64 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-05, and you can follow it by feed.
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Submitted Get JIRA for $10 only as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted Java EE 5 vs Java EE 6 as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted AWS automation tools. Why terraform as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bootcharting as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pi: A coding agent for engineers who own their tools as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thoughts on Elasticsearch as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Just tried Google Cloud SQL: not impressed… as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Linux Lost the Human Desktop. Can It Win the Agent Desktop? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Internal data structures of Elasticsearch as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted List of Container Management Systems as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cryptographic Message Authentication expained as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Introduction to the data model of cassandra db as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Installing Java 7 on Debian as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tl: A task ledger (CLI) for humans and coding agents as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Architecture Decision Records: A Tool for Experienced Engineers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted (Typical) journey towards full GitOps as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Installing Filebeat to catch all Kubernetes logs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to setup EKS on AWS with Terraform as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Open Distro for Elasticsearch on AWS as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Elasticsearch cluster configuration as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Installing Kubernetes on Ubuntu as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Docker and Moby as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kubernetes with CoreOS on AWS as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted JSON Web Tokens Are Made for Microservices as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted AWS for Docker containers: first impressions as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Golang: How to start as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Do more Ansible (overview, tutorial) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted On Symmetric-Key Cryptography: Stream and Block Ciphers, Modes of Operations as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Linux utility: lsof as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Local network for local virtual machines: Working bash skript as a story · 2 points
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