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Arfon Smith
Personal blog · arfon.orgscienceprogrammingai
Arfon Smith's personal blog at arfon.org covers science, programming and ai. Since 2009, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Twitter Streaming with EventMachine and DynamoDB”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-05, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its DynamoDB writing, including a post on Twitter streaming with EventMachine and DynamoDB, which one commenter calls a favourite DynamoDB article.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Making AI work better for science @ Fulcrum. Previously Senior Fellow @ Schmidt Sciences, Product for @github's Copilot, Head of Data Science @stsci. Zoonive...
Most-linked posts?
- Twitter Streaming with EventMachine and DynamoDB2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-01-28
What Hacker News says?
While it's not Rails, one of my favorite DynamoDB articles was Twitter Streaming with EventMachine and DynamoDB ( http://arfon.org/twitter-streaming-with-eventmachine-and-dyn... ). I see one huge strength of DynamoDB is its flexibility for analytics drools
Comment linking /twitter-streaming-with-eventmachine-and-dynamodb
on “Rails' new seamless integration with Amazon DynamoDB & S3”Submitted Announcing the Journal of Open Source Software as a story · 126 points
HN discussionSubmitted Twitter Streaming with EventMachine and DynamoDB as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Autoscaling on AWS Without Bundling AMIs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Scaling Galaxy Zoo with SQS as a story · 1 points
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