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Cormac Hogan
Personal blog · cormachogan.comsystemsdataprogramming
Cormac Hogan writes CormacHogan.com, a personal blog at cormachogan.com about systems, data and programming. Since 2016, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-14, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Cormac Hogan's posts as technical references on VMware vSAN, such as the post explaining witness components. The comments only cite the post and do not judge its 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.
Storage, Data, Virtualization, Container Orchestration
What Hacker News says?
I know VSAN uses these and calls them witnesses. https://cormachogan.com/2014/04/01/vsan-part-21-what-is-a-wi...
Comment linking /2014/04/01/vsan-part-21-what-is-a-witness/
on “Apple open-sources FoundationDB”Submitted MinIO Service Deployment in VSphere with Tanzu as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted My first look at Unikernels on vSphere as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Crash-consistent VMware vSphere snapshot backups using Velero and MinIO as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Photon Controller vs. vSphere Integrated Containers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Safekeeping – A Useful Tool for Interacting with First Class Disks as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A first look at Octant – Visualizing your K8s clusters as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Project Hatchway – VMware Persistent Storage for Containers as a story · 1 points
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