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Ben Brougher

Personal blog · benbrougher.tech/posts · on HN as moutansosprogrammingsystems

Ben Brougher's personal blog at benbrougher.tech covers programming and systems. Since 2023, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-28, and you can follow it by feed.

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5mentions?
3HN people?
2023–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2023

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog's writeup on leaving AWS for bare metal, including its Microk8s posts. One commenter cites the Microk8s post for its lack of etcd and its spare-rack cutover design.

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The author on HN?

moutansos · 12 karma · member since 2017

I'm a software developer from the Pacific Northwest. I work building tooling in the telecommunications industry. I enjoy, building things, gardening, hiking, kayaking, and of course writing code. Blog: https://benbrougher.tech/

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What Hacker News says?

  1. hedora · 2025-10-29
    At another big-4 hyperscaler, we ended up with substantial downtime and a lossy migration because they didn’t know how to manage kubernetes. Microk8s doesn’t use etcd (they have their own, simpler thing), which seems like a good tradeoff at single rack scale: https://benbrougher.tech/posts/microk8s-6-months-later/ The article’s deployment has a spare rack in a second DC and they do a monthly cutover to AWS in case t…

    Comment linking /posts/microk8s-6-months-later/

    on “AWS to bare metal two years later: Answering your questions about leaving AWS”
  2. makerdiety · 2025-02-03

    Submitted AI Is Robbing Jr. Devs as a story · 16 points

    HN discussion
  3. moutansos · 2023-05-01
    If anyone wanted to keep on top of these bank failures and be alerted when it happens, I built a very simple bank failure API/RSS feed from the data coming off of the FDIC website: https://benbrougher.tech/projects/bank-failures/ It's nothing fancy, just a for fun project

    Comment linking /projects/bank-failures/

    on “JPMorgan Chase Bank Assumes All the Deposits of First Republic Bank”
  4. moutansos · 2023-06-13

    Submitted ASCII vs. UTF-8 vs. UTF-16 vs. UTF-32 as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. moutansos · 2023-07-05
    https://benbrougher.tech

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”

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