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Company blog · baselime.io/blogsystemsprogramming

Baselime is the company blog at baselime.io, writing about systems and programming. Since 2022, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Baselime – Observability as Code”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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7mentions?
5HN people?
2022–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2023

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

The comments mention baselime.io only as an observability product and a company that Cloudflare acquired, not for its writing. Neither comment discusses its posts.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Use logs, metrics, distributed tracing and wide-events to detect, diagnose and resolve issues before they impact your users.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Baselime – Observability as Code
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-10-30

What Hacker News says?

  1. The author wrote about the topic before: https://boristane.com/blog/observability-wide-events-101/ He used to work for https://baselime.io/ which was aquired by Cloudflare.

    Comment linking /

    on “Logging sucks”
  2. Submitted Why is logging so damn hard? as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  3. If your app is instrumented with OpenTelemetry, I'd really recommend something like SigNoz ( https://signoz.io/ ) or Axum ( https://axiom.co/ ) (or even https://baselime.io but their application is a mess to work with) 1. Axiom has a generous free plan (not sure if it's self-hostable) 2. SigNoz has an easy to work with self-hosting setup but also cloud solution. If it's just logging, you can still forward your logs…

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Hosting on Digital Ocean, any advice for monitoring and deployments?”
  4. Submitted Observability Glossary – explain like I'm 5 as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Baselime – Observability as Code as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Logging at scale with canonical log lines as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Deploy on Fridays as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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