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Bruno Schaatsbergen
Personal blog · bschaatsbergen.comprogrammingsystemssecurity
Bruno Schaatsbergen's personal blog at bschaatsbergen.com covers programming, systems and security. Since 2021, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Behind the scenes, AWS Lambda”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its behind-the-scenes posts on how AWS Lambda works internally, such as its stripped-down Linux kernel and isolation model. The one comment cites it only as a source for those details.
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.
Working notes.
Most-linked posts?
- Behind the scenes, AWS Lambda5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2021-06-14
- Fetching AMD SEV Reports (With Zig)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-10-11
What Hacker News says?
Lambda uses a stripped down Linux kernel (afaik it has some syscalls removed) The kernel surface is part of their security model. There's some details here https://www.bschaatsbergen.com/behind-the-scenes-lambda E.g. exposing the kernel would undo some intentional isolation
Comment linking /behind-the-scenes-lambda
on “EC2 Boot Time Benchmarking”Submitted Behind the scenes, AWS Lambda as a story · 429 points
HN discussionSubmitted Signing TLS handshakes inside a TPM as a story · 36 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fetching AMD SEV Reports (With Zig) as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nobody Encrypts Container Images as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Agile Shower Thoughts as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Behind the Scenes, AWS Lambda as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Behind the Scenes, AWS Lambda as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Behind the Scenes, AWS Lambda as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Talking to /Dev/Sev-Guest as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pull AWS DynamoDB Locally as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pre-Jitting in AWS Lambda as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pre-jitting in Lambda (using CrossGen) to reduce .NET cold starts as a story · 2 points
HN discussion