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Binary Igor
Personal blog · binaryigor.com · on HN as BinaryIgorprogrammingsystems
Binary Igor is a personal blog at binaryigor.com about programming and systems. Since 2024, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 31 times, most often “JSON Documents Performance, Storage and Search: MongoDB vs. PostgreSQL”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-13, and you can follow it by feed.
Binary Igor is a blog about programming, software development, software engineering, computer science, networks and the inner workings of binary machines.
Most-linked posts?
- JSON Documents Performance, Storage and Search: MongoDB vs. PostgreSQL3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-03-02
- Modular Monolith: dependencies and communication between Modules2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-09-10
- Modern Front end Complexity: essential or accidental?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-04-19
- Indexing, Partitioning, Sharding – it is all about reducing the search space2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-10-01
- The Joy and Power of Understanding2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-06-25
- MySQL vs. PostgreSQL Performance: throughput and latency, reads and writes2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-01-06
- Data Consistency: transactions, delays and long-running processes2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-01-27
What Hacker News says?
That's a fair point, but as I've pointed out above, I think that the question of Identity is much broader and more nuanced than just owning a set of keys or nicknames; if you're curious I've written about it here: https://binaryigor.com/centralized-vs-decentralized-identity...
Comment linking /centralized-vs-decentralized-identity-tradeoffs.html
on “Nostr”Submitted Htmx and Web Components: A Perfect Match as a story · 257 points
HN discussionWas exactly about to point that out - if you mostly have integration (aka in-between tests) tests, you rarely need to refactor your tests. It's about testing mostly at the right abstraction level: https://binaryigor.com/unit-integration-e2e-contract-x-tests...
Comment linking /unit-integration-e2e-contract-x-tests-what-should-we-focus-on.html
on “Delete tests”Submitted Modular monolith and microservices: Modularity is what matters as a story · 148 points
HN discussionIt's all described in the blog post and there is a link to the source code as well :) Both the app and db are hosted on the same machine - they are sharing resources. This fact, type of storage and other details of the setup are contained in this section: https://binaryigor.com/how-many-http-requests-can-a-single-m... I think you're right that I didn't mention the details of the db connection pool; they are here: ht…
Comment linking /how-many-http-requests-can-a-single-machine-handle.html
on “How many HTTP requests/second can a single machine handle? (2024)”Submitted How many HTTP requests/second can a single machine handle? (2024) as a story · 64 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Bitcoin Core Code Analysis as a story · 25 points
HN discussionSubmitted Programmer in Wonderland as a story · 20 points
HN discussionSubmitted Who controls the Internet and How it works? as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted Multi vs. Single Page Apps – two implementations comparison as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted SQLite can handle most of it as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Joy and Power of Understanding as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Modern Front end Complexity: essential or accidental? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Events are great – I will save them in Postgres instead as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Joy and Power of Understanding as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Modern Front end Complexity: essential or accidental? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Modular Monolith: dependencies and communication between Modules as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted JSON Documents Performance, Storage and Search: MongoDB vs. PostgreSQL as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted JSON Documents Performance, Storage and Search: MongoDB vs. PostgreSQL as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted JSON Documents Performance, Storage and Search: MongoDB vs. PostgreSQL as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted MySQL and PostgreSQL: different approaches to solve the same problem (2024) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Data Consistency: transactions, delays and long-running processes as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Data Consistency: transactions, delays and long-running processes as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted MySQL vs. PostgreSQL Performance: throughput and latency, reads and writes as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted MySQL vs. PostgreSQL Performance: throughput and latency, reads and writes as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Authentication: Who are you? Proofs are passwords, codes and keys as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Modularity: Parallel Work, Independent Deployments and Organization Scalability as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Modular Monolith and Microservices: Data ownership, boundaries and consistency as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Indexing, Partitioning, Sharding – it is all about reducing the search space as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Indexing, Partitioning, Sharding – it is all about reducing the search space as a story · 1 points
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