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GoSquared Blog
Company blog · engineering.gosquared.comprogrammingweb
GoSquared Blog is the company blog at engineering.gosquared.com, writing about programming and web. Since 2012, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 28 times, most often “Building Better API Docs with React and Swagger”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-02-03, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked posts cover the backend architecture of GoSquared, a web analytics app, including its use of Redis and Cassandra for aggregations. The comment cites it as a worked example for a database design question.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Building Better API Docs with React and Swagger2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-10-28
- Building the DeepRacer Leaderboard2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-12-06
What Hacker News says?
Check the following; GoSquared is a web analytics app that covers exactly the sort of scenarios you mentioned. In brief, they use Cassandra and Redis for their backend. Redis is their middle layer for fast writes, sorting, aggregations (hourly, day, weekly, monthly), while cassandra is their "persistence" layer where they store the aggregations as a blob. Within Cassandra they optimize heavily on data locality for f…
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