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Eric Moritz

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Eric Moritz's personal blog at eric.themoritzfamily.com covers programming and data. Since 2011, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Erlang Websockets benchmark demo against other frameworks”. The last post was in 2015, but the archive is still widely read.

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12mentions?
6HN people?
2011–2015first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2013

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN commenters link this blog for its web server benchmark results, comparing Node.js, Erlang, Go, Python, and Java for websocket concurrency and scaling on EC2 and physical hardware.

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.

The blog of Eric Moritz

Most-linked posts?

  1. Erlang Websockets benchmark demo against other frameworks
    4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2012-07-24

What Hacker News says?

  1. rdtsc · 2013-02-23
    One example: http://eric.themoritzfamily.com/websocket-demo-results-v2.ht... Has Node.js, Erlang, Scala, go and a lot of Python. On EC2 Erlang and Java pretty much blow everything else out of the water.

    Comment linking /websocket-demo-results-v2.html

    on “Go as an alternative to Node.js for Very Fast Servers”
  2. ericmoritz · 2012-02-15

    Submitted Books every self-taught computer scientist should read as a story · 229 points

    HN discussion
  3. voidlogic · 2013-01-02
    My previous link is a more general performance comparison across many languages. I realized upon re-reading that you were more interested in concurrency/scaling, this might be more what you are looking for: http://eric.themoritzfamily.com/websocket-demo-results-v2.ht...

    Comment linking /websocket-demo-results-v2.html

    on “Go vs. Python for a simple web server”
  4. hypnotist · 2013-01-08

    Submitted Erlang Websockets benchmark demo against other frameworks as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  5. rdtsc · 2013-02-17
    Another set of benchmarks that shows Erlang's cowboy coming ahead on EC instances. It also compares EC2 vs real hardware and throws more contenders in the mix. On physical hardware the race is pretty close (except node, python-gevent, but cluster node did very well). http://eric.themoritzfamily.com/websocket-demo-results-v2.ht...

    Comment linking /websocket-demo-results-v2.html

    on “Python vs. Node vs. PyPy benchmarks”
  6. ConceitedCode · 2011-04-22

    Submitted Python Encodings and Unicode as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. ericmoritz · 2015-05-08

    Submitted Linking with Hydra and JSON-LD as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. ericmoritz · 2015-05-01

    Submitted Hydra Lite: A simple hypermedia format as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. stock_toaster · 2012-07-24

    Submitted Websocket demo results - v2 as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. ericmoritz · 2014-04-28

    Submitted How Linked Data made merging 3 data sources easy as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. ericmoritz · 2014-04-17

    Submitted Easy ETL with RDF and Python as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. ericmoritz · 2012-02-20

    Submitted Learning Python Logging as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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