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Andrew Certain

Personal blog · blog.tacertain.comsystemsprogramming

Andrew Certain's personal blog at blog.tacertain.com covers systems and programming. Since 2019, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “What does P-four-nines (p99.99) mean?”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.

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2019–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2021

A blog made up entirely of the long-form versions of my tweet threads

Most-linked posts?

  1. What does P-four-nines (p99.99) mean?
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-09-18

What Hacker News says?

  1. Submitted Latency, Throughput, and Walking on Escalators as a story · 23 points

    HN discussion
  2. Submitted What does P-four-nines (p99.99) mean? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted The Universal Scalability Law and the Mythical Man Month as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted What does P-four-nines (p99.99) mean? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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