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Colin Howe
Personal blog · colinhowe.co.uk · on HN as colinhoweprogrammingstartups
Colin Howe's personal blog at colinhowe.co.uk covers programming and startups. Since 2011, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 29 times, most often “MongoDB Performance for more data than memory”. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Cited in an HN thread on MongoDB performance. The linked post covers MongoDB performance and whether indexes or the whole data set need to fit in memory. The comment only cites it as a source.
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.
The blog of Colin Howe, a startup CTO
Most-linked posts?
- MongoDB Performance for more data than memory2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-03-03
What Hacker News says?
Well if it is all about indexes, you'll forgive me for getting confused by the term 'data set', that needs to be in memory http://www.colinhowe.co.uk/2011/02/23/mongodb-performance-fo... Mind you, I've also been to a Mongo seminar, where some real world website managers talked about their data needing to be in memory. To hear it's only the index is a relief, but that hasn't been clear to me :\ So I assume creating a…
Comment linking /2011/02/23/mongodb-performance-for-data-bigger-than-memor/
on “If MongoDB is only good when in-memory, then what use is MongoHQ?”Submitted MongoDB Performance for more data than memory as a story · 34 points
HN discussionSubmitted Django SQL Sampling as a story · 25 points
HN discussionSubmitted Django SQL Sampler becomes Django Sampler (with Mongo support) as a story · 19 points
HN discussionSubmitted Visualising Eventlet as a story · 17 points
HN discussionSubmitted SSDs on AWS - Impact on Conversocial as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Django Sampler 0.6 Released - Splits samples by day as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why I Want to See Open Source on your CV as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted My Management Style as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making salaries transparent as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Startup CTO – Technology choices as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tech Debt and Impossible Mountains as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted MongoDB - Collection per user performance as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted MongoDB - Strategies when hitting disk as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why every developer should have Redis as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted My dream pair programming setup as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How we migrated to AWS as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Startup CTO – Compensating Engineers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How I run technical interviews as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Powering Conversocial's Analytics as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Considerations when sharding as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted This is what we make happen as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Never use Your ORM Directly as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tackling Technical Debt as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted If your database server fails, what happens? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted 90% of problems are people problems as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted MySQL Performance for More Data than Memory as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is AWS the right host for us? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Celery and Sentry – Recording Errors in Django as a story · 1 points
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