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code.hootsuite.com is the company blog at code.hootsuite.com, writing about programming and systems. Since 2013, 18 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “Accelerating cross platform development with serverless microservices”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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19mentions?
18HN people?
2013–2018first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 6 in 2015

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN commenters cite Hootsuite engineering posts on blameless post-mortems and on distributed configuration management with Consul, the latter as a still-relevant approach.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Accelerating cross platform development with serverless microservices
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-01-17
  2. Dark Launching using Consul
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-11-27
  3. How Hootsuite conducts blameless post-mortems after something goes wrong
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-05-04

What Hacker News says?

  1. Hootsuite | Vancouver, BC, Canada | Onsite | Full-time We currently have openings for the following positions: Build and Deploy Engineer Data Scientist Intermediate Software Engineer, Data Lab Intermediate Software Engineer, Mobile Web Junior Network Engineer Junior Software Engineer, Android Senior Operations Engineer Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack Senior Software Engineer, iOS Technical Project Manager Techn…

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2015)”
  2. Submitted Rebuilding the Build as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  3. Interestingly, this is the opposite of the direction much of the tech industry has been moving with post-mortems. - http://firstround.com/review/this-is-how-effective-leaders-m... - http://code.hootsuite.com/blameless-post-mortems/ - https://codeascraft.com/2012/05/22/blameless-postmortems/

    Comment linking /blameless-post-mortems/

    on “USS McCain collision ultimately caused by UI confusion”
  4. Submitted Moving millions of user sessions from mysql to redis as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  5. mitchellh · 2015-12-14Recommends
    Hootsuite wrote a blog post on doing this sort of thing with Consul: http://code.hootsuite.com/distributed-configuration-manageme... (The post itself is over a year old but the concepts still apply today) You can use the Go API client[1] to make this possible from Go. I'm biased as I work for HashiCorp but just wanted to add a server-based option to the mix if a local BoltDB won't work for you. [1]: https://github.c…

    Comment linking /distributed-configuration-management-and-dark-launching-using-consul/

    on “Feature flags API in Go”
  6. Submitted Row Stores vs. Column Stores: Why Not Use Both? as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Accelerating cross platform development with serverless microservices as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted VimShell as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Accelerating cross platform development with serverless microservices as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Super-charging React with ImmutableJS as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Redis plugin for Akka persistence as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Dark Launching using Consul as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted GitHub-Changelog – a robust notification system built on top of GitHub as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Why we love and use ZeroMQ as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted The Universal Polling System as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted How Hootsuite conducts blameless post-mortems after something goes wrong as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted [Infographic] Lessons of a Failed A/B Test as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Build, Test, and Automate Server Image Creation as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted Functional testing with CasperJs as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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