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Cirrus Minor
Personal blog · arnon.mesystemsdata
Cirrus Minor is a personal blog at arnon.me about systems and data. Since 2012, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 23 times, most often “Replacing Docker Desktop with hyperkit and minikube”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-03-17, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link PDFs hosted on this blog: one offers a shorter summary of the 8 fallacies of distributed computing, and another cites a DSL summary comparing JetBrains MPS with Xtext.
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.
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Most-linked posts?
- Replacing Docker Desktop with hyperkit and minikube2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-09-03
- Services and Aspects -when everyone is super no-one is2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-03-08
What Hacker News says?
Then perhaps a shorter summary in the form of the 8 fallacies of distributed computing would be clearer. https://arnon.me/wp-content/uploads/Files/fallacies.pdf
Comment linking /wp-content/uploads/Files/fallacies.pdf
on “Enter Sandbox: Google is building an internet without cookies”Submitted Replacing Docker Desktop with hyperkit and minikube as a story · 4 points
HN discussionFrom someone who compared MPS with Xtext : "2 days of work in MPS were recreated in 30 min using XText" http://arnon.me/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/DSL-summary.pdf
Comment linking /wp-content/uploads/2015/06/DSL-summary.pdf
on “JetBrains' MPS Projectional Editor [video]”Submitted Replace Docker desktop with hyperkit and minikube as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Big data in the cloud – welcome to cost oriented design (slides and video) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Spark, Parquet and Amazon S3 – It's Complicated as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Apache Spark, ETL and Parquet as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Where is Apache spark heading? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fallacies of massively distributed systems as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Killing the HBase zombie table as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted SOA Patterns (finally) published as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted SOA patterns (finally) published as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Develop Map/Reduce with reduced assumptions as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Microservices Granularity Tradeoffs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Protecting Your AWS from EKS with Kube2iam as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Big data isn't – well, almost as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Services and Aspects -when everyone is super no-one is – Cirrus Minor as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Services and Aspects -when everyone is super no-one is as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Don’t let your architecture become the new hardware as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Data's hierarchy of needs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Suprastructure – how come “Microservices” are getting small? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Services, Microservices, Nanoservices – oh my as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted 5 lessons big-data projects should learn from the iOS6 map debacle as a story · 1 points
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