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Brian Anglin
Personal blog · briananglin.me/postsprogrammingdata
Brian Anglin's personal blog at briananglin.me covers programming and data. Since 2021, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Spending $5k to learn how database indexes work”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Brian Anglin's post about spending $5k to learn how databases work, citing it in threads on schema design and whether compute is cheap. One commenter says it is worth reading.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Spending $5k to learn how database indexes work4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-11-06
What Hacker News says?
You'll probably enjoy reading this article that was on the front page yesterday: https://briananglin.me/posts/spending-5k-to-learn-how-databa...
Comment linking /posts/spending-5k-to-learn-how-database-indexes-work/
on “A terrible schema from a clueless programmer”Submitted Spending $5k to learn how database indexes work as a story · 236 points
HN discussion> compute is cheap There was a whole thread yesterday about how a dude found out that it isn't: https://briananglin.me/posts/spending-5k-to-learn-how-databa... (also mentioned in the RbtB post)
Comment linking /posts/spending-5k-to-learn-how-database-indexes-work/
on “A terrible schema from a clueless programmer”See also https://briananglin.me/posts/spending-5k-to-learn-how-databa...
Comment linking /posts/spending-5k-to-learn-how-database-indexes-work/
on “PlanetScale is now generally available”