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Blueground Engineering blog
Company blog · engineering.theblueground.comprogrammingsystems
Blueground Engineering blog is the company blog at engineering.theblueground.com, writing about programming and systems. Since 2021, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Zero downtime Postgres migration, done right”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for a post on zero-downtime PostgreSQL migrations and for the first post in a series on rethinking logging and observability. The comments only link or describe the posts.
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.
Stories from the teams who enable Blueground through technology
Most-linked posts?
- Zero downtime Postgres migration, done right2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-06-11
- Deploying preview environments in Kubernetes with ArgoCD2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-11-17
What Hacker News says?
zero-downtime-postgres-migration-done-right: https://engineering.theblueground.com/blog/zero-downtime-pos...
Comment linking /blog/zero-downtime-postgres-migration-done-right/
on “PostgreSQL upgrades are hard”Submitted Zero downtime Postgres migration, done right as a story · 383 points
HN discussionWe’ve been rethinking observability at Blueground and decided to document the process. The first post in the series is about logging, with some lessons we found valuable: • Logs are primarily for troubleshooting, not alerting. • Standardization across services makes debugging far easier. • Context matters — and we’re moving into an era where logs will be consumed by AI as much as by humans. This is part of a broader…
Comment linking /a-software-engineers-guide-to-observability
on a deleted threadSubmitted Deploying preview environments in Kubernetes with ArgoCD as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Deployment previews on K8s using ArgoCD as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Software Engineer's Guide to Observability: Part 1 – Logging as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rustic Witcher: Reimagining data anonymization as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted APM and Distributed Tracing in agentic era as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Secure, Time-Limited DB Access via Vault and GitHub Actions as a story · 1 points
HN discussion