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Armando Fox
Personal blog · armandofox.com/geekprogrammingcareer
Armando Fox's personal blog at armandofox.com covers programming and career. Since 2011, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Recovery Oriented Computing”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-17, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in an HN thread on the Chaos Monkey. The post is about working with the Chaos Monkey, and the comment connects it to crash-only software and recovery-oriented computing. No judgment of the writing is given.
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.
Armando Fox’s personal website: blog, reviews, screeds, advice, and more.
Most-linked posts?
- Recovery Oriented Computing2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-04-25
What Hacker News says?
The Chaos Monkey reminds me of some papers I've read about "crash-only software" and "recovery-oriented computing". With this approach, server software is written assuming the only way it would shutdown is a crash, even for scheduled maintenance. The software must be designed to recover safely every time the service is started. Instead of exercising recovery code paths rarely, they are tested every day. http://www.a…
Comment linking /geek/past-projects/recovery-oriented-computing-roc/
on “Working with the Chaos Monkey”Submitted Recovery Oriented Computing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Crossing the Software Education Chasm as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
