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Authress Security and Engineering Blog
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Authress Security and Engineering Blog is the company blog at authress.io, writing about security and programming. Since 2020, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “How when AWS was down, we were not”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-14, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Security and engineering knowledge-base articles on availability calculations and S3 bucketsquatting. Commenters only reference these posts and make no judgement of the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 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?
- How when AWS was down, we were not2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-11-17
What Hacker News says?
It depends on the infrastructure you're running on. There was a post yesterday going fairly into depth how you do such calculations https://authress.io/knowledge-base/articles/2025/11/01/how-w... You probably cannot achieve this with a single node, so you'll at least need to replicate it a few times to combat the normal 2-3 9s you get from a single node. But then you've got load balancers and dns, which can also ser…
Comment linking /knowledge-base/articles/2025/11/01/how-we-prevent-aws-downtime-impacts
on “Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues”Submitted How when AWS was down, we were not as a story · 203 points
HN discussionBTW clicking on your website logo takes one to https://authress.io/knowledge-base/ instead of https://authress.io
Comment linking /
on “How when AWS was down, we were not”Submitted How to secure a multitenant application architecture as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI really don't understand why everyone is jumping up and down over this. I doesn't really feel like a real solution. But I couldn't contain myself and wanted to a write a response: https://authress.io/knowledge-base/articles/2026/03/14/how-a...
Comment linking /knowledge-base/articles/2026/03/14/how-aws-can-fix-s3
on “Bucketsquatting Is (Finally) Dead”Submitted Auth Situation Report as a story · 1 points
HN discussion