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broadcastingadam.com is a personal blog at broadcastingadam.com about programming and web. Since 2011, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Advanced caching in Rails”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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2011–2015first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 7 in 2012

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link these posts as guides to caching in Rails, including advanced caching and low-level caching. Commenters call them the best writeup on the topic and recommend them as 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?

  1. Advanced caching in Rails
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2012-02-19

What Hacker News says?

  1. yxhuvud · 2012-02-19Recommends
    Best writeup on the topic of caching in rails that I've seen is http://broadcastingadam.com/2011/05/advanced_caching_in_rail...

    Comment linking /2011/05/advanced_caching_in_rails

    on “How key-based cache expiration works”
  2. Submitted Moving on from Rails as a story · 122 points

    HN discussion
  3. wavesplash · 2012-05-16Recommends
    Excellent. You may wish to mention that the default Rails.cache is a per-process cache and doesn't work between instances / goes away at process death. For Memcache users, configure Rails.cache to use Rails' built in :memcache_store: http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveSupport/Cache/MemCa... For Redis fans, try :redis_store: https://github.com/jodosha/redis-store This covers Rails 3 caching pretty well: http://…

    Comment linking /2011/05/advanced_caching_in_rails

    on “Everyone should be using low level caching in Rails”
  4. Submitted Advanced caching in Rails as a story · 86 points

    HN discussion
  5. Jake232 · 2012-05-16Recommends
    Nice fist post. For anyone interested, he's another awesome guide to Rails Caching. Worth a read too. - http://broadcastingadam.com/2011/05/advanced_caching_in_rail...

    Comment linking /2011/05/advanced_caching_in_rails

    on “Everyone should be using low level caching in Rails”
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    HN discussion
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    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Advanced Caching in Rails: Revised as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
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    HN discussion
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