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Asana
Company blog · eng.asana.comprogrammingsystems
Asana is the company blog at eng.asana.com, writing about programming and systems. Since 2013, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 20 times, most often “Scaling Asana.com”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Asana's engineering post on scaling asana.com, which describes running the marketing site on Statamic with a git-backed, file-based editing workflow. It is cited in discussions of blog platforms and CMS setups.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Scaling Asana.com6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2014-02-12
- How to Build Stable, Accessible Data Infrastructure at a Startup2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-11-05
What Hacker News says?
Asana: San Francisco: Full Time: http://eng.asana.com/ Technology: http://asana.com/luna Full Job Description: SOFTWARE ENGINEER https://asana.com/jobs/software-engineer If you join the team, you'll work with seasoned engineers from Google and Facebook, as well as the co-founder of Facebook. You will also take ownership of a large problems in a successful and small but growing startup. Contact: jobs@asana.com
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2013)”Submitted Scaling Asana.com as a story · 123 points
HN discussionWe just switched to Statamic and could not be happier. We modified it a bit so that our staging server has the admin panel enabled while still being backed by a git repo. Every save action commits and pushes to master, giving our non-technical folks a super convenient way to see their changes immediately without making a fatal mistake in production. Devs can then merge into prod after a quick review of the final cha…
Comment linking /2014/02/scaling-asana-com/
on “Show HN: Pagekit – A new, modern CMS built with Symfony components”Submitted Why Asana Is Switching to TypeScript as a story · 101 points
HN discussionTies in perfectly with the Git + file-based CMS approach as used by (one of many examples) Asana: http://eng.asana.com/2014/02/scaling-asana-com/ . Cool feature!
Comment linking /2014/02/scaling-asana-com/
on “Rendered Prose Diffs”Submitted Great Data: it's all in the delivery as a story · 48 points
HN discussionAsana did something similar: https://eng.asana.com/2014/02/scaling-asana-com/ There is an argument to be made that a ubiquitous, developer-first system translates into more instant changes. Seeing changes quickly makes it easier to iterate, which is better over time than the initial investment to learn Markdown.
Comment linking /2014/02/scaling-asana-com/
on “Stack Exchange Engineering: How We Built Our Blog”Submitted Visualizing Collaboration at Asana as a story · 12 points
HN discussionThis blog post from Asana is proving inspirational for my team: http://eng.asana.com/2014/02/scaling-asana-com/ http://statamic.com/ is the CMS and it provides a nice interface for content owners - although Asana uses the online Github interface for editing content.
Comment linking /2014/02/scaling-asana-com/
on “A simple form builder application written with AngularJS”Submitted The Evolution of Asana’s Luna Framework as a story · 11 points
HN discussionDepending on tech capability, Statamic is a good option http://statamic.com/ The team at Asana have used it to scale as we ll http://eng.asana.com/2014/02/scaling-asana-com/
Comment linking /2014/02/scaling-asana-com/
on “Ask HN: Ideal blog platform for startups?”Submitted How to Build Stable, Accessible Data Infrastructure at a Startup as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSee this Asana post on how they do it: http://eng.asana.com/2014/02/scaling-asana-com/ This still requires Statamic, PHP, and AWS Elastic Beanstalk. That would appear to be expensive for just a simple static site.
Comment linking /2014/02/scaling-asana-com/
on “Ask HN: How do you host your company's marketing site?”Submitted Making Asana, a JavaScript-heavy app, work in Internet Explorer as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Asana switches to node.js as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sharding is Bitter Medicine as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stable Accessible Data Infra(2014) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Testville and Beyond: Massive Parallel Testing at Asana as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Adding Perfect Forward Secrecy to Asana as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sane Build Systems as a story · 1 points
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