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Blog of (former?) MySQL Entomologist

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Blog of (former?) MySQL Entomologist is a personal blog at mysqlentomologist.blogspot.com about data, systems and programming. Since 2018, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.

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4mentions?
4HN people?
2018–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 1 in 2018

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog, written by a former MySQL engineer, for posts about Linux and database debugging tools, such as dynamic tracing, and the tradeoffs between existing tools.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

What Hacker News says?

  1. This blog post talks about some of the existing tools and their tradeoffs: http://mysqlentomologist.blogspot.com/2021/05/dynamic-tracin...

    Comment linking /2021/05/dynamic-tracing-of-memory-allocations.html

    on “Show HN: I wrote a tool in Rust for tracking all allocations in a Linux process”
  2. Submitted Off-CPU Analysis Flame Graphs Without eBPF/Perf as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Stored Procedures Instrumentation in MariaDB 10.5 as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted On Some Recent MySQL Optimizer Bugs as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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