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Dave McCrory

Personal blog · blog.mccrory.medatasystems

Dave McCrory writes Data Gravitas, a personal blog at blog.mccrory.me about data and systems. Since 2010, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Basho CTO Dave McCrory: The Future of the Network”. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.

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5mentions?
5HN people?
2010–2017first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2012

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Dave McCrory's blog as the original source for the 'data gravity' idea, the notion that large data sets attract applications and services to them. The one comment cites it as a reference.

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.

Dave McCrory’s Thoughts, Ideas, and Research

Most-linked posts?

  1. Basho CTO Dave McCrory: The Future of the Network
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-05-30

What Hacker News says?

  1. For reference, here is the original blog post on Data Gravity: http://blog.mccrory.me/2010/12/07/data-gravity-in-the-clouds...

    Comment linking /2010/12/07/data-gravity-in-the-clouds/

    on “Amazon CTO: 'You should be able to walk away' from cloud providers”
  2. Submitted Basho CTO Dave McCrory: The Future of the Network as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Artificial Data Gravity as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted The Future of the Network as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Walk-through of the VMforce / Cloud OS / OpenPaaS Demo as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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