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Dizzy zone
Personal blog · dizzy.zone · on HN as dizzyVikprogrammingsystems
Dizzy zone is a personal blog at dizzy.zone about programming and systems. Since 2018, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “Redis is fast – I'll cache in Postgres”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-02-11, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters cite dizzy.zone's benchmark posts, such as a Go web framework comparison on EC2 and a Redis versus Postgres caching setup. One comment also discusses Mouthful, a self-hosted comment system.
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.
A blog about IT, programming, my career and life
Most-linked posts?
- Redis is fast – I'll cache in Postgres3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-09-24
- State of My Homelab2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-03-23
What Hacker News says?
If you look at their lab [0], it seems his NAS is separate from his kubernetes nodes. If he hasn't tuned his networking and NAS to the maximum, network storage may in fact add a LOT of delay on IOPS. Could be the difference between fractions of a millisecond vs actual milliseconds. If your DB load is mostly random reads this can really harm performance. Just hypothesizing here though, since it is not clear whether h…
Comment linking /2025/03/10/State-of-my-Homelab-2025/
on “Redis is fast – I'll cache in Postgres”Submitted Redis is fast – I'll cache in Postgres as a story · 352 points
HN discussionBased on these benchmarks - https://dizzy.zone/2018/01/23/Kestrel-vs-Gin-vs-Iris-on-EC2/ - Go could easily be reducing costs 10x at a PHP-based company. Just look at Go's memory requirements. It's insane.
Comment linking /2018/01/23/Kestrel-vs-Gin-vs-Iris-on-EC2/
on “Interview with a Pornhub web developer (2019)”Submitted Enums in Go as a story · 51 points
HN discussionhttps://dizzy.zone I've been on a bit of a hiatus as we've got a new human to look after, but I do blog here, and intend to blog there once I have the time available again.
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”Submitted Redis is fast – I'll cache in Postgres as a story · 6 points
HN discussionThis sounds interesting: "Periodic cleanup. Mouthful allows for periodic cleanup of non-confirmed and soft-deleted comments" — I like that. So if the blog author goes for vacation, and people start posting weird things, then, when the blog author doesn't approve those comments, eventually they auto disappear? Until s/he is back and can review? What if someone posts reply E, and someone else post F which is a reply t…
Comment linking /2018/04/19/I-made-my-own-commenting-server-Here-s-why/
on “Mouthful – A self-hosted alternative to Disqus”Submitted Show HN: How I host my blog on AWS and ci/tooling as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Redis is fast: I'll cache in Postgres as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Wrapping Go errors with caller info as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted State of My Homelab as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted BLAKE2B Performance on Apple Silicon as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted My Homelabs Power Consumption as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I profile a Gin service with pprof and end up finding a stupid mistake I made as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted My rant about OpenApi/swagger as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Related posts for Hugo via text embeddings as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Probabilistic Early Expiration in Go as a story · 1 points
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