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_CLOUD
Personal blog · blog.ediri.ioprogrammingsystemssecurity
_CLOUD is a personal blog at blog.ediri.io about programming, systems and security. Since 2021, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-02-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Posts on practical ops setup, such as a how-to for a dead man's switch in Prometheus that alerts when a heartbeat endpoint stops being hit. Cited as a how-to source for heartbeat monitoring.
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.
Cloud Native Pilgrim | Kubernetes Enthusiast | Serverless Believer | Customer Experience Architect @ Pulumi | (he/him) | blogging my own opinions
What Hacker News says?
You need to implement a deadman switch. For example if using Prometheus you can configure it to access an HTTP endpoint of a deadman switch service every X seconds. When that service detects you have not accessed it in some time it will alert you. For example: https://blog.ediri.io/how-to-set-up-a-dead-mans-switch-in-pr...
Comment linking /how-to-set-up-a-dead-mans-switch-in-prometheus
on “Ask HN: How to do simple heartbeat monitoring?”Submitted How to build an SSH client using Rust as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Build trust with signing your CLI binary and container as a story · 1 points
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