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Elastician

Personal blog · elastician.comprogrammingsystems

Elastician is a personal blog at elastician.com about programming and systems. Since 2009, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. The last post was in 2014, but the archive is still widely read.

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6mentions?
5HN people?
2009–2013first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2010

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

Why HN links it

Linked posts examine cloud platforms from the perspective of botocore, the AWS Python SDK library, as a way of looking at cloud services. The comment itself is a correction about the botocore developer.

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.

The springy new world of computing.

What Hacker News says?

  1. I stand corrected, it now seems that the lead developer of botocore works at amazon now: http://www.elastician.com/2011/12/looking-at-clouds-from-bot...

    Comment linking /2011/12/looking-at-clouds-from-both-sides-now.html

    on “Introducing the AWS Command Line Interface (Developer Preview)”
  2. Submitted AWS By The Numbers as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Boto and Google Storage as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Does Python Scale? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Mapping Requests to EC2 API Versions [An EC2 History] as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Using EC2 CloudWatch in Boto as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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