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Dave Kerr
Personal blog · dwmkerr.comprogrammingaicareer
Dave Kerr's personal blog at dwmkerr.com covers programming, ai and career. Since 2014, 24 different Hacker News readers have linked it 51 times, most often “The Death of Microservice Madness in 2018”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Dave Kerr's blog covers shell and terminal tips and software architecture. One commenter pointed to his Effective Shell series as a follow-up to a bash one-liner collection.
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.
Dave Kerr, partner and Head of Engineering at QuantumBlack Labs, McKinsey & Company. Writing on software engineering and agentic AI.
Most-linked posts?
- The Death of Microservice Madness in 20189 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2018-01-12
- Migrating from Ghost to Hugo – Why Bother?3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-01-05
- Effective Shell3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-07-13
- The Death of Microservice Madness (2018)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-06-26
- Manipulating Istio and Other Custom Kubernetes Resources in Golang2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-10-09
- Modernising .NET projects for .NET Core and beyond2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-07-15
What Hacker News says?
That's a nice and very extensive collection. As a follow-up, I can also recommend Effective Shell series. I used to have navigation shortcut diagram from Part 1 ( https://dwmkerr.com/effective-shell-part-1-navigating-the-co... ) printed out.
Comment linking /effective-shell-part-1-navigating-the-command-line/
on “Bash-oneliner: A collection of handy Bash one-liners and terminal tricks”Submitted The Death of Microservice Madness in 2018 as a story · 993 points
HN discussion"Microservices" are not an architecture https://dwmkerr.com/the-death-of-microservice-madness-in-201...
Comment linking /the-death-of-microservice-madness-in-2018/
on “Software Architecture Patterns: 5 minute read”Submitted Learn Docker by building a Microservice as a story · 404 points
HN discussionhttps://dwmkerr.com/effective-shell-part-1-navigating-the-co...
Comment linking /effective-shell-part-1-navigating-the-command-line/
on “The IceCube Neutrino Detector at the South Pole Hits Paydirt”Submitted The Death of Microservice Madness (2018) as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Death of Microservice Madness in 2018 as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Death of Microservice Madness in 2018 as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Death of Microservice Madness in 2018 as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Modernising .NET projects for .NET Core and beyond as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Effective Shell Part 6: Everything You Don't Need to Know About Job Control as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Death of Microservice Madness in 2018 as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Manipulating Istio and Other Custom Kubernetes Resources in Golang as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Patching Kubernetes Resources in Golang as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Death of Microservice Madness in 2018 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Integrating OpenShift and Splunk for Docker Container Logging as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Create a Resilient Consul Cluster for Microservice Discovery with Terraform and AWS as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is it worth persevering with Golang? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Unit Testing the Windows Registry as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Modernising .NET projects for .NET Core and beyond as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Supercharge Your Java with Conventional Commits and Semantic Versioning as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Effective Shell for Beginners as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Migrating from Ghost to Hugo – Why Bother? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Effective Shell: Understanding the Shell (Or, Operating Systems 101) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A portable and magic-free way to open Pull Requests from the Command Line as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Death of Microservice Madness in 2018 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Death of Microservice Madness in 2018 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Effective Shell: Navigating the Command Line as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A utility to help you wait for ports to open as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Simple Continuous Integration for Docker Images as a story · 2 points
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