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Battlefy

Company blog · blog.battlefy.comprogramminggames

Battlefy is the company blog at blog.battlefy.com, writing about programming and games. Since 2014, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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17mentions?
5HN people?
2014–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 10 in 2021

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

The only linked comment is a Battlefy job listing in a hiring thread, not a discussion of the writing. The site's name describes it as covering finding and organising esports tournaments.

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.

Battlefy is the simplest way to start, manage, and find esports tournaments | Create. Compete. Conquer.

What Hacker News says?

  1. Battlefy | Engineering | Vancouver, Canada | ONSITE | REMOTE | VISA | FULL-TIME Battlefy is the leading esports technology platform that serves world-class companies like Amazon Game Studios, Riot Games, Blizzard Entertainment, Nintendo, Coca Cola, Red Bull, Alienware, Mancity, and many more. We power their esports infrastructure (managing tournaments, prizing, teams, real-time stats, seeding and brackets, content c…

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2019)”
  2. Submitted How not to blow up the production database as a story · 94 points

    HN discussion
  3. I agree, but services you consume should provide their own mocks! I've written about this on how LocalStack is compensating for the lack of proper mocks from AWS: https://blog.battlefy.com/localstack-is-great-but-should-not...

    Comment linking /localstack-is-great-but-should-not-exist

    on “Don’t mock what you don’t own”
  4. Submitted The strangely difficult problem of drawing a box around text as a story · 83 points

    HN discussion
  5. Yep. Same cycle https://blog.battlefy.com/how-a-principal-developer-solves-a...

    Comment linking /how-a-principal-developer-solves-any-problem

    on “Creation happens in silence”
  6. Submitted Continuous Deployment with Docker at Battlefy as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Building esports with deep technical analysis and design as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Continuous Deployment at Battlefy with Docker, Node.js, Jenkins, and Screener as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Demystifying Webpack as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Building esports with deep technical analysis and design as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Fast builds, isolated deploys and instant rollback as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted ESports Startup Battlefy Raises $1.3M from Former Riot Games Board Member as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Your job doesn’t need to suck as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted How to Suffer Greatly with a Database as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted How to write testable code with MongoDB as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted The strangely difficult problem of drawing a box around text as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted How Battlefy Uses Neo4j for Activity Feeds as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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