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opencredo.com is the company blog at opencredo.com, writing about programming, systems and business. Since 2012, 33 different Hacker News readers have linked it 62 times, most often “Programmable Infrastructure Needs Testing Too”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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62mentions?
33HN people?
2012–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 24 in 2016

Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link OpenCredo's blog as an engineering blog written by its team. Linked articles cover Akka Streams, microservices, Hoverfly API simulation, Terraform and project management.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

We're a hands-on software consultancy backed by a team of experts with decades worth of experience in various industries. Combining our extensive skills in Data, Cloud and Platform Engineering, we work alongside you to deliver tailored solutions that are reliable, secure and scalable.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Programmable Infrastructure Needs Testing Too
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-03-21
  2. Versioning a Microservice System with git
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-03-02
  3. Designing a REST API with Fine-Grained Resources, HATEOAS and HAL
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-08-17
  4. From Java to Go, and Back Again (2016)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-10-13
  5. The Seven Deadly Sins of Microservices (Follow Up Blog Post)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-01-10

What Hacker News says?

  1. eloycoto · 2017-04-21Recommends
    OpenCredo is a good blog to read: https://opencredo.com/blog/ On the other hand, Cloudflare, Stripe and Netflix have some awesome articles too.

    Comment linking /blog/

    on “Ask HN: Which companies have the best blogs written by their engineering team?”
  2. Submitted From Java to Go, and Back Again (2016) as a story · 117 points

    HN discussion
  3. A coworker showed me Akka Streams recently. It allows you to overcome the impedence mismatch between threadpools processing jobs at different speeds where one task feeds into another. Could be a neat way to join up the i/o bound tasks to the cpu bound tasks. https://opencredo.com/introduction-to-akka-streams-getting-s...

    Comment linking /introduction-to-akka-streams-getting-started/

    on “Thread pools: How do I use them?”
  4. Submitted The 7 deadly sins of project managers as a story · 20 points

    HN discussion
  5. CloudFormation covers all AWS features in full detail. OTOH, you end up reading and editing tons and tons of JSON that were never meant for human consumption. I don't know what goals Amazon had when they came up with CF, but if human readability was one of them, then they've failed that goal. I've seen a lot of people start writing their own CF management systems, in Python or whatever, and end up with a lot of infr…

    Comment linking /terraform-infrastructure-design-patterns/

    on “Terraform 0.7 released”
  6. Submitted Versioning a Microservice System with git as a story · 11 points

    HN discussion
  7. After implementing an ACL system with permissions inheritance for child nodes, I'm of the opinion that it's not really something that can be written by humans efficiently. Not to say that the concept is bad, just that it touches on so many things that it should probably only be attempted by way of a framework (which largely doesn't exist, at least not universally, so kudus to ladon for trying). For anyone struggling…

    Comment linking /designing-rest-api-fine-grained-resources-hateoas-hal/

    on “Show HN: A Go Library for Better Access Control”
  8. Submitted What I Don’t Like About Error Handling in Go, and How to Work Around It as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  9. I'm the article author, and it's great to hear your feedback! I've published a couple of other articles that may help with the topic of microservices: https://opencredo.com/javaone-building-a-microservice-develo... https://opencredo.com/the-seven-deadly-sins-of-microservices... I'm also looking for more suggestions of how people will want to use Hoverfly with Java projects, and so please do give me a shout via twitt…

    Comment linking /the-seven-deadly-sins-of-microservices-redux/

    on “Using API Simulation to Build Microservices Alongside a Java Monolith”
  10. Submitted Easy API Simulation with Hoverfly JUnit Rule as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  11. this is the second part of the post, hope you will like it as well! https://opencredo.com/seven-heavenly-virtues-project-manager...

    Comment linking /seven-heavenly-virtues-project-manager/

    on “The 7 deadly sins of project managers”
  12. Submitted The Seven Deadly Sins of Microservices (Follow Up Blog Post) as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted New Tricks with Dynamic Proxies in Java 8 (part 1) as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted A deep-dive into Angular 2.0 as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Simulating GitHub OAuth2 Login for Tests with JUnit, Webdriver and Hoverfly as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted New Tricks with Dynamic Proxies in Java 8 (part 2) as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted From Java to Go, and Back Again as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Designing a REST API with Fine-Grained Resources, HATEOAS and HAL as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted WebAssembly – Where is it going? as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted Securing Terraform state with Vault as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted Product Development is applied science as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted A React/Redux boilerplate featuring ES6, Flow, form validation, Bootstrap, internationalization as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted DevOps and IT Operations as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted Facebook’s React, and the signal:noise ratio as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  25. Submitted Working Locally with Microservices (Patterns and Tooling) as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  26. Submitted Designing a REST API with Fine-Grained Resources, HATEOAS and HAL as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  27. Submitted Locally Developing Micro-Services with Docker Compose as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  28. Submitted Building the best Kubernetes test cluster on macOS as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  29. Submitted Continuous Verification as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  30. Submitted Google Cloud Spanner: our first impressions as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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