Top all-time · #21307
Engineering 451.
Personal blog · blog.najaryan.net/postsprogrammingsystems
Engineering 451. is a personal blog at blog.najaryan.net about programming and systems. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Faster Protocol Buffers (2019)”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
A post on retry logic, covering exponential backoff and jitter for robust systems. Linked in a thread about a Python retrying library as background on why those techniques matter.
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.
Engineering 451.
Most-linked posts?
- Faster Protocol Buffers (2019)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-01-31
What Hacker News says?
If you are not familiar with how retrying is used and why exponential back off, jitter, etc are useful here is a shameless plug to a blog post I wrote recently https://blog.najaryan.net/posts/autonomous-robustness/ (the first half pretty much is about all these things).
Comment linking /posts/autonomous-robustness/
on “Opnieuw: A simple and intuitive retrying library for Python”Submitted Faster Protocol Buffers (2019) as a story · 59 points
HN discussionSubmitted Faster Protocol Buffers as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Autonomously Robust Software as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Faster Protocol Buffers as a story · 2 points
HN discussion