Top all-time · #3990
Brian Storti
Personal blog · brianstorti.comprogrammingsystems
Brian Storti's personal blog at brianstorti.com covers programming and systems. Since 2015, 19 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “Vim Registers: The Basics and Beyond”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Brian Storti's posts on Raft, Vim registers and the actor model, usually as a pointer to a clear explanation of each topic. Most comments cite them in passing rather than judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Brian Storti works at ThoughtWorks, and here he writes about Ruby, Vim, UNIX and other topics related to software development.
Most-linked posts?
- Vim Registers: The Basics and Beyond4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2019-02-03
- The Actor Model in 10 Minutes (2015)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-02-02
- /raft/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-03-09
- A Primer on Database Replication (2017)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-01-06
- Understanding Shell IO redirection (2015)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-08-30
What Hacker News says?
As an alternative to Paxos-related consensus algorithms, some projects may want to take a look at the Raft consensus protocol: https://www.brianstorti.com/raft/ Whereas Paxos tries to maintain a fully distributed consensus state, Raft instead proposes a protocol for automatically electing a leader node from a group of follower nodes, and coordinating the replication of the write log through that leader node. I haven…
Comment linking /raft/
on “A generalised solution to distributed consensus”Submitted Stop using tail -f (mostly) as a story · 765 points
HN discussion(Apologies if I’m misunderstanding and you already know this.) Not specifying a register (e.g. "0) just means the commands, including x and p, will use the " register, aka the unnamed register. By itself, p is equivalent to ""p. :reg shows you all the registers and their current contents. This seems like a good description: https://www.brianstorti.com/vim-registers/ Edit: Oh I guess you are saying it was unexpected…
Comment linking /vim-registers/
on “Ask HN: Teach me something new”Submitted A Primer on Database Replication (2017) as a story · 187 points
HN discussionI'm on the other side. I think Leslie Lamport asserted that Paxos is minimal, and that "all other consensus algorithms are just Paxos with more steps". I'm inclined to believe him. I've implemented Paxos but I can't get through "Raft for dummies" style blog posts. Regarding Raft [1]: > The consensus problem is divided into three sub-problems: Leader election, Replication and Safety. What is leader election? It's a d…
Comment linking /raft/
on “Raft: Understandable Distributed Consensus (2014)”Submitted Stop using tail -f (mostly) as a story · 15 points
HN discussionIf you aren't familiar with the Actor Model, it's worth investigating. It avoids a lot of problems you will experience with other paradigms. https://www.brianstorti.com/the-actor-model/
Comment linking /the-actor-model/
on “Ask HN: Good resources for architecting simulation games?”Submitted The Actor Model in 10 Minutes (2015) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionWho's "we" here? https://www.brianstorti.com/vim-registers/
Comment linking /vim-registers/
on “Ask HN: It is 2022. Why do we only have one paste buffer?”Submitted A Primer on Database Replication as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Actor Model in 10 Minutes (2015) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stop using tail -f (mostly) (2015) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Swim: The Scalable Membership Protocol as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted TCP Flow Control as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Vim Registers: The Basics and Beyond as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Understanding Shell IO redirection (2015) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Vim Registers: The Basics and Beyond as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Understanding Shell Script's idiom: 2>&1 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Understanding Bundler's setup process as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
