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centurylinklabs.com is the company blog at centurylinklabs.com, writing about systems and programming. Since 2014, 22 different Hacker News readers have linked it 34 times, most often “Building your first app on CoreOS”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

34mentions?
22HN people?
2014–2015first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 32 in 2014

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link centurylinklabs.com for its Docker tutorials and for a fig2coreos tool that turns Fig configs into systemd files for deploying apps on CoreOS clusters.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Building your first app on CoreOS
    3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2014-03-27
  2. Could Server-Side Dart Replace Node.js?
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-07-01
  3. Building Complex Apps for Docker on CoreOS and Fig
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-02-27
  4. What is docker, when to use it
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-05-16

What Hacker News says?

  1. tomgruner · 2014-03-23Recommends
    I have been enjoying some of the tutorials on the Century Link Labs blog: http://www.centurylinklabs.com/category/docker-posts/

    Comment linking /category/docker-posts/

    on “Getting Started with Docker”
  2. Submitted Hacking Hack with Docker as a story · 11 points

    HN discussion
  3. Fig is awesome, it lets you create a simple fig.yml that can specify multi-container apps. I recently built a fig2coreos adapter that takes the fig.yml as input and outputs the coreos systemd configuration files. [1] https://github.com/centurylinklabs/fig2coreos [2] http://www.centurylinklabs.com/building-complex-apps-for-doc...

    Comment linking /building-complex-apps-for-docker-on-coreos-and-fig/

    on “Fig – Fast, isolated development environments using Docker”
  4. Submitted What is docker, when to use it as a story · 10 points

    HN discussion
  5. There are new tools[1] being built around Docker that make it viable to easily move your apps out of Heroku and onto any system running Docker including DigitalOcean, GCE, AWS, etc. When you combine Docker, buildpacks, and CoreOS[2], you get a scalable and flexible platform that you can run anywhere. It has taken people a long time to combine the simplicity of Heroku with the flexibility of bare metal, but the open…

    Comment linking /building-your-first-app-on-coreos/

    on “Amazon ELBs are vulnerable to Heartbleed”
  6. Submitted Introducing: Dray – It's Like Unix Pipes for Docker as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  7. It is not a lot of work to get started, here is a short and simple tutorial that goes from nothing to a full running app with a database on CoreOS: http://www.centurylinklabs.com/building-your-first-app-on-co...

    Comment linking /building-your-first-app-on-coreos/

    on “Etcd – The Road to 1.0”
  8. Submitted Career Path of a Programmer as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  9. There's fig2coreos[1] which will translate your fig.yml into systemd files. Then you could deploy across a CoreOS cluster[2]. Pretty interesting. [1] https://github.com/centurylinklabs/fig2coreos [2] http://www.centurylinklabs.com/building-complex-apps-for-doc...

    Comment linking /building-complex-apps-for-docker-on-coreos-and-fig/

    on “Fig 1.0: Boot2docker compatibility and more”
  10. Submitted Docker vs Vagrant Cloud as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted What Does Docker 1.0 Mean for the Community as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted 15 Quick Docker Tips as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Could Server-Side Dart Replace Node.js? as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted What is Docker and When to Use It as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted The future of Docker (interview with Jeff Lindsay) as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted Auto-Loadbalancing Docker with Fig, HaProxy and Serf as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Flynn vs. Deis: The Tale of Two Docker Micro-PaaS Technologies as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Open-Source Docker Projects as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted Could server-side Dart replace Node.js? as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted Optimizing Docker Images as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted Future of CI with Docker - CenturyLinkLabs interviews Shippable CEO Avi Cavale as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted Persistent Distributed Filesystems in Docker as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted Deploying Multi-Server Docker Apps with Ambassadors as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted Building Complex Apps for Docker on CoreOS and Fig as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  25. Submitted Could server-side Dart replace Node.js? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  26. Submitted The Future of Docker as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  27. Submitted What Makes a Good REST API Framework? (part 1) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  28. Submitted Analyzing Dockers's New OSS: libchan and libswarm as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  29. Submitted Meet Docker CEO, Ben Golub as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  30. Submitted Building your first app on CoreOS as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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