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David Xiang
Personal blog · davidxiang.comprogrammingcareersystems
David Xiang's personal blog at davidxiang.com covers programming, career and systems. Since 2021, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Kafka as a Database? Yes or No”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its career advice for software engineers, including a list of 20 micro-habits of high-impact engineers and a post on the staff software engineer role. The comments only point to these posts.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
My personal Substack. Launched 3 years ago.
Most-linked posts?
- Kafka as a Database? Yes or No3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-01-11
What Hacker News says?
You could pick three out of this list: https://davidxiang.com/2021/07/18/20-micro-habits-of-high-im...
Comment linking /2021/07/18/20-micro-habits-of-high-impact-software-engineers/
on “Ask HN: Qualities of a Senior Software Engineer”Submitted Kafka as a Database? Yes or No as a story · 4 points
HN discussion> and the staff engineer track. It sounds like you simply want to do the latter - so no, there is nothing wrong or unusual with what you are wanting. I could be wrong but it sounds like the OP doesn't even want to be a staff engineer (if my understanding of staff engineer is correct). https://davidxiang.com/2021/01/19/staff-software-engineer-re... I'm pretty sure you're still expected to guide other engineers (co-wo…
Comment linking /2021/01/19/staff-software-engineer-responsibilities/
on “Ask HN: Lead developer but I just don't enjoy management”Submitted Kafka as a Database? Yes or No as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kafka as a Database? Yes or No as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Use More 1-1-1s as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted S3 Express One, Value-Less LSM Trees, ShardStore as a story · 1 points
HN discussion