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Bryce Nyeggen

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Bryce Nyeggen's personal blog at nyeggen.com covers programming, systems and data. Since 2013, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “The genius and folly of MongoDB”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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7mentions?
5HN people?
2013–2015first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2014

Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Bryce Nyeggen's 2013 post "The genius and folly of MongoDB" as a summary of MongoDB's strengths and weaknesses, and as advice on slim alternatives.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. The genius and folly of MongoDB
    3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2013-10-20

What Hacker News says?

  1. fennecfoxen · 2013-11-07Recommends
    The internals are so very slim... so I like this guy's advice for a Mongo replacement that's almost as slim: http://nyeggen.com/blog/2013/10/18/the-genius-and-folly-of-m... "ZFS has a heckuva caching strategy, and you know when it accepts a write ." :P

    Comment linking /blog/2013/10/18/the-genius-and-folly-of-mongodb/

    on “Hstore development for 9.4 release”
  2. Submitted The genius and folly of MongoDB as a story · 339 points

    HN discussion
  3. gtrubetskoy · 2015-07-28Recommends
    I'm surprised to see MongoDB as #1 in the db list, is it really now taught at colleges? My favorite article on MongoDB: http://nyeggen.com/post/2013-10-18-the-genius-and-folly-of-m...

    Comment linking /post/2013-10-18-the-genius-and-folly-of-mongodb/

    on “The most popular APIs and tech at college hackathons”
  4. Submitted Immutable SQL as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. gtrubetskoy · 2014-03-31Recommends
    This sums up MongoDB pretty well: http://nyeggen.com/blog/2013/10/18/the-genius-and-folly-of-m...

    Comment linking /blog/2013/10/18/the-genius-and-folly-of-mongodb/

    on “MongoDB, Better”
  6. Submitted Full Disk Encryption With Btrfs and Multiple Drives in Ubuntu as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  7. This. http://hackingdistributed.com/2013/01/29/mongo-ft/ Also this. http://nyeggen.com/blog/2013/10/18/the-genius-and-folly-of-m...

    Comment linking /blog/2013/10/18/the-genius-and-folly-of-mongodb/

    on “Guide to MongoDB for startups”

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