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Tumblr is the company blog at devblog.bu.mp, writing about programming and startups. Since 2010, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 25 times, most often “Redis at Bump: many roles, best practices, and lessons learned”. The last post was in 2013, but the archive is still widely read.

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25mentions?
12HN people?
2010–2019first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 16 in 2011

Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN commenters cite this Bump engineering blog as a source for posts on Redis memory use and Haskell use at Bump. The posts are referenced as support, with no direct praise or criticism.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Redis at Bump: many roles, best practices, and lessons learned
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-02-15
  2. Haskell improves log processing 4x over Python
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-01-24

What Hacker News says?

  1. Mountain View, CA -- Bump Bump is the #7 app in US for all time and #3 in Japan with over 40M downloads. Innovation you create at Bump will push out to >>10 million active users and growing. We are hiring for Applied Mathematics (need to be able to code), Operations, CSS/Javascript, Design, Backend Development, iOS, Android. We will train on iOS or Android for the right candidate. We work on scaling (using Riak, Red…

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (July 2011)”
  2. Submitted Migrating From MongoDB To Riak At Bump as a story · 131 points

    HN discussion
  3. In January, Bump reported allocating a whopping 700GB of RAM for redis[1]. [1] http://devblog.bu.mp/haskell-at-bump

    Comment linking /haskell-at-bump

    on “Redis at Bump: many roles, best practices, and lessons learned”
  4. Submitted IOS vs. Android from the Trenches as a story · 121 points

    HN discussion
  5. > surprisingly little from the likes of haskell beyond self serving academic noodling Your final statement is demonstrably incorrect. Facebook (haxl), Microsoft (Bond), Google (ganeti), Target for supply chain automation, Bank of America (Haskell is being used for backend data transformation and loading), standard chartered, Prezi, Android bump ( http://devblog.bu.mp/post/40786229350/haskell-at-bump ), At&t (automat…

    Comment linking /post/40786229350/haskell-at-bump

    on “The Lisp Curse (2011)”
  6. Submitted Haskell improves log processing 4x over Python as a story · 114 points

    HN discussion
  7. Always see posts with titles such as "Why We Moved From MongoDB to PostgreSQL" and rarely "Why We Moved From PostgreSQL to MongoDB". MongoDB is simply unreliable with data and struggles to scale. A few companies that have moved away from MongoDB: shippable, dzone, theguardian, olery, urban airship, bump, etsy, viber, shareaholic, videoamp, digidoc 1. http://blog.shippable.com/why-we-moved-from-nosql-mongodb-to... 2.…

    Comment linking /post/40786226011/from-mongodb-to-riak-7138

    on “MongoDB vs. Amazon DocumentDB: MongoDB CTO Breaks It Down”
  8. Submitted How to DDOS yourself as a story · 96 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Redis at Bump: many roles, best practices, and lessons learned as a story · 94 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Introducing Stud (open source secure gateway) as a story · 92 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted How we use Redis at Bump as a story · 59 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Who said Android apps can’t look good? as a story · 55 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Diesel 2: Using generators for async (and back again) as a story · 55 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Using Scala in Bump for Android as a story · 46 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Bump's Visual Refresh for iOS as a story · 45 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted Tl;dr.js summarizes hn articles, and hn comments in your browser as a story · 14 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Martin Gardner had a timing attack for your mind in 1956. as a story · 12 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Git for dropbox users: Don't be afraid as a story · 10 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted Easy partial screen modals on iOS as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted Bump app: From MongoDB to Riak as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted Redis at Bump as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted Flock for Android: A Technical Breakdown as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted Open Source in-browser TL;DR generator, tl;dr Hacker News as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted Safeguarding ourselves from ourselves - Bump Dev Blog as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  25. Submitted From MongoDb to Riak as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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