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blog.maxcdn.com is the company blog at blog.maxcdn.com, writing about web and systems. Since 2013, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “How we built our Real-time Analytics Platform”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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2013–2014first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 14 in 2014

Most-linked posts?

  1. How we built our Real-time Analytics Platform
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-06-19

What Hacker News says?

  1. Hey, this brings up a good point for some more clarification. There are two common ways CDNs do routing: method 1) by using a customized dns server (like the one I used in the example) that responds differently to the resolvers end users use. You can use something like Maxmind (like I did in the example) to determine where you think that resolver is. method 2) you can use anycast all the way to the TCP level for ter…

    Comment linking /anycast-ip-routing-used-maxcdn/

    on “Rolling your own CDN for $25 in 1 hour”
  2. Submitted Recruiting Humans with HTTP Headers as a story · 24 points

    HN discussion
  3. we used Tokumx for http://blog.maxcdn.com/learned-stop-worrying-love-logs/ and the write performance vs mongo was incredible. I think the cluster is doing ~250,000 writes per second across six boxes with SSD space being the bottleneck. I'm really curious to spin up AerospikeDB. There's no Tokumx comparison I could find and they talk about very high reads. Curious to see write heeavy applications.

    Comment linking /learned-stop-worrying-love-logs/

    on “Backend Teardown: Muut”
  4. Submitted How we built our Real-time Analytics Platform as a story · 17 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Here's how we improved our API speed by 95% as a story · 16 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Purge MaxCDN with GitHub deploy as a story · 10 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted How jsDelivr works as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted How We Improved Our API Response Time by 95% as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted MaxCDN's API now 95% faster as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted SPDY 3.1 Support as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted JsDelivr does it better as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted CDN Raw logs to S3 Export as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Behind The Scenes: tools.maxcdn.com » MaxCDN Blog as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted A Real Relationship, Not just Business as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted How we Built Realtime Analytics as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted DNS Load Balancing Pros and Cons as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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