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Blackfire.io Le Blog
Company blog · blog.blackfire.ioprogrammingweb
Blackfire.io Le Blog is the company blog at blog.blackfire.io, writing about programming and web. Since 2015, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-19, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for posts on Erlang's concurrency model, arguing it is not mainly about lightweight processes and message passing. The comments are a company job ad and a debate on async and actor models.
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.
Fire up your web application performance
What Hacker News says?
Blackfire | Full-Time | REMOTE Blackfire [1], an independent company, develops a profiler for PHP, Python, and Go, as well as an APM. We are a small distributed team, with a remote-first approach [2]. Our work indirectly impacts millions of people in the world. We are growing and are looking for people with skills in configuration management, system administration (in the devops mindset), frontend development (React…
Comment linking /we-love-working-remotely-learn-why-blackfire-became-a-remote-first-company.html
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2020)”Submitted Boot2docker tips for Mac as a story · 4 points
HN discussion> Can you provide any reference to support this claim as far as actually good implementations go? Ah yes now to the No True Scotsman fallacy. Async only works well when it’s “properly implemented” which is only .NET. Even some .NET folks prefer actors model for concurrent programming: > Orleans is the most underrated technology out there. Not only does it power many Azure products and services, it is also the design…
Comment linking /the-challenges-of-async-python-observability-profiling-asynchronous-code-2-3.html
on “Erlang's not about lightweight processes and message passing (2023)”Submitted CrowdStrike outage – Projecting the impact of changes before they reach prod as a story · 3 points
HN discussionRead part 1: https://blog.blackfire.io/understanding-continuous-profiling...
Comment linking /understanding-continuous-profiling-part-1.html
on “Understanding continuous profiling: part 2”Submitted Profiling 101 for Python Developers: What Is a Profiler? 1/6 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionRead part 2: https://blog.blackfire.io/understanding-continuous-profiling...
Comment linking /understanding-continuous-profiling-part-2.html
on “Understanding continuous profiling: part 1”Submitted Blackfire.io supports Docker out of the box as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Boosting PHP performance: mastering OPcache optimization with Blackfire as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Brace yourselves: Black Friday is coming as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Understanding continuous profiling: part 2 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Understanding continuous profiling: part 1 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Levelling up your talk: Blackfire.io meets PHP meetup as a story · 1 points
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