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Hokstad Consulting
Company blog · hokstadconsulting.com/blog · on HN as vidarhprogrammingsystems
Hokstad Consulting is the company blog at hokstadconsulting.com, writing about programming and systems. Since 2016, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Routing HTTP requests with Nginx+Mruby”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Hokstad Consulting's blog, which publishes a high volume of articles. One commenter asked whether the posts are written by AI or by hand.
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?
- Routing HTTP requests with Nginx+Mruby2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-05-20
- Writing systemd Units2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-07-24
What Hacker News says?
You can do get around the nginx Plus requirement by using a module like ngx_mruby to customize the backend selection. I haven't measured the latency, so it may not be suitable for your 10ms example. Here's a post I wrote on that ~4 years ago that uses an in-process cache [1]. It'd be fairly easy to add an endpoint to update it and pull data from Consul. I agree with you, it's a missed opportunity - there are alterna…
Comment linking /nginx/mruby-virtualhosts
on ““Let’s use Kubernetes.” Now you have eight problems”Submitted Writing systemd Units as a story · 3 points
HN discussionWith nginx, you can do dynamic binding in the free version in at least two ways: 1. If you "just" want to map a hostname, to a private IP, you can assign the hostname to a variable, and use the variable in your backend config. This works because Nginx resolves static addresses at start, but resolves names pulled from variables at runtime. 2. If you need to map ports as well, you can use a Lua or Mruby script. E.g. I…
Comment linking /nginx/mruby-virtualhosts
on “HashiCorp Consul 1.2: Service Mesh”Submitted Writing systemd Units as a story · 2 points
HN discussionJust curious, are these articles on your "blog" written by AI or are you writing them all by hand? https://hokstadconsulting.com/blog Very impressive daily output! Keep up the good work.
Comment linking /blog
on “Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt When Using an AI Assistant”Submitted Routing HTTP requests with Nginx+Mruby as a story · 2 points
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