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Personal blog · rationalsurvivability.com/blogsecuritysystems

Chris Hoff's personal blog at rationalsurvivability.com covers security and systems. Since 2009, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Dear Cloud Providers: Please Make Your Networking Suck Less”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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11mentions?
8HN people?
2009–2012first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2009

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Only one comment is included, on a DNSworks hiring thread, arguing that DNS and networking need API-driven control to match cloud server flexibility. It does not discuss this blog's writing.

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.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Dear Cloud Providers: Please Make Your Networking Suck Less
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-12-08

What Hacker News says?

  1. To anybody questioning what the next level of DNS could be, think of this way: infrastructure services like EC2 or Slicehost enable us to move/copy/build out images quite easily. But if this flexibility is not matched by API-driven networking surrounding our servers, there will always be a ceiling of flexibility that our servers cannot realize. I don't quite know what dnsworks has in mind, but anything that aims to…

    Comment linking /blog/?p=1603

    on “DNSworks is looking for a technical cofounder.”
  2. Submitted Dear Cloud Providers: Please Make Your Networking Suck Less as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Cloud Over Subscription vs. Over Capacity – Two Different Things as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Security by obscurity in the cloud cannot last as the gold standard as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted PrivateCore: Another virtualization-enabled security solution launches as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Why Steeling Your Security Is Less Stainless and More Irony… as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Unsafe At Any Speed: The Darkside Of Automation as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted (Physical, Virtualized and Cloud) Security Automation – An API Example as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Cloud Light Presents: Mr. Dump All Your Crap In the Cloud Guy as a story · 1 points

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  10. Submitted Chris Hoff (almost) Takes Down the Internet as a story · 1 points

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  11. Submitted Hoff on Virtualization's Impact on Networking Vendors as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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