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Ben Stopford
Personal blog · benstopford.comsystemsdata
Ben Stopford's personal blog at benstopford.com covers systems and data. Since 2011, 20 different Hacker News readers have linked it 24 times, most often “Log Structured Merge Trees”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers point to this blog for writing on distributed systems, log-structured storage, and streaming and event-driven architectures. One comment also recommends the author's book.
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.
Writing on distributed systems, data, and software engineering
Most-linked posts?
- Log Structured Merge Trees7 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2015-02-21
- Elements of Scale: Composing and Scaling Data Platforms5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2015-04-28
- Building a Career in Technology2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-03-06
- Designing Event Driven Systems Book2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-07-07
What Hacker News says?
For further/similar content by Ben Stopford that I personally found a very high quality: http://www.benstopford.com/2015/02/14/log-structured-merge-t...
Comment linking /2015/02/14/log-structured-merge-trees/
on “Damn Cool Algorithms: Log structured storage (2009)”Submitted Log Structured Merge Trees as a story · 271 points
HN discussion> Can you guarantee ordering? Can you guarantee exactly once? How do you get transactional semantics? How do you handle cascading failures? It's all a bit overwhelming. I don’t advocate DDD/microservices but if you absolutely must go down this road, Kafka Streams really neatly answers all these questions. Ben Stopford’s book[0] and blog posts[1] are really great if you want to know more. [0] http://www.benstopford.c…
Comment linking /2018/04/27/book-designing-event-driven-systems/
on “Building Domain Driven Microservices”Submitted Log Structured Merge Trees (2015) as a story · 27 points
HN discussionBen Stopford's entire blog is pure gold if you are into streaming/event driven systems/event driven architectures. http://www.benstopford.com/
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on “Ask HN: Favorite distributed systems engineering blog posts?”Submitted Elements of Scale: Composing and Scaling Data Platforms as a story · 22 points
HN discussionSubmitted Log Structured Merge Trees as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Log-Structured Merge Trees (2015) as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Elements of Scale: Composing and Scaling Data Platforms as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Log Structured Merge Trees as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Log Structured Merge Trees as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Arrchitecture of Royal Bank of Scotland's Operational Data Cache System as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Log Structured Merge Trees (2015) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Designing Event Driven Systems Book as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Elements of Scale: Composing and Scaling Data Platforms as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Elements of Scale: Composing and Scaling Data Platforms as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a Career in Technology as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Log Structured Merge Trees (2015) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a Career in Technology(2015) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Designing Event Driven Systems as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Log Structured Merge Trees (2015) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Elements of Scale: Composing and Scaling Data Platforms as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Database Y as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Distributed Storage, Phase Change Memory & Rebirth of the In-Memory DB as a story · 1 points
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