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Humanitec Blog

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Humanitec Blog is the company blog at humanitec.com, writing about systems and programming. Since 2020, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “How to kill developer productivity in your DevOps workflow”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-16, and you can follow it by feed.

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16mentions?
7HN people?
2020–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 9 in 2021

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link the Humanitec blog for posts on platform engineering and internal developer platforms. One thread discusses a post on how platform engineering works, and another lists related platform tools.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Humanitec empowers platform engineers to build the perfect Internal Developer Platform for the enterprise. Our products enable platform teams to reduce cognitive load, drive standardization and slash time to market.

Most-linked posts?

  1. How to kill developer productivity in your DevOps workflow
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-06-25

What Hacker News says?

  1. Humanitec is looking for a developer advocate/technical writer/speaker and awesome storyteller. The position is (and will remain) fully remote: https://humanitec.com/open-positions/senior-developer-advoca... This is an incredibly exciting job offering for anyone in software engineering who has a passion for writing and speaking. For anyone who wants to evangelize an entirely new category (Internal Developer Platform…

    Comment linking /open-positions/senior-developer-advocate

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2020)”
  2. Submitted Evaluating DevOps Maturity as a story · 10 points

    HN discussion
  3. Also: https://getporter.dev/ https://convox.com/ https://atomizedhq.com/ And closely related: https://humanitec.com/ https://www.okteto.com/ https://www.env0.com/ And then old options like: https://dokku.com/ https://caprover.com/ And maybe: https://swarmpit.io/ https://coolify.io/ https://www.bunnyshell.com/ https://platform9.com/ And probably a dozen more. It's kind of wild.

    Comment linking /

    on “Show HN: SetOps – Run containers, databases and more in your own AWS account”
  4. Submitted GitOps at scale sucks. This equation roughly explains it P(gitopsfails)=1-p^n as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  5. > After reading the article I still don’t know what “platform engineering” is meant to refer to. It wasn't obvious to me either, so I found the following definitions. I still think that the article doesn't say 'how PE works' as opposed to providing a bunch of tips. "The engineering platform is created and maintained by a dedicated product team, designed to support the needs of software developers and others by provi…

    Comment linking /blog/sre-vs-devops-vs-platform-engineering

    on “How Platform Engineering Works”
  6. Submitted Developer Experience: How to Define Good Documentation? as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  7. How much freedom should developers have in the perfect DevOps setup? What does ”you build it you run it” truly mean? I’ve been reflecting on this for a while after seeing some 120 DevOps setups in 2020. I went back and forth with several DevOps/Engineering leaders on an article called “DevOps: Standards v Freedom”. I’ve gathered my thoughts alongside a concept I call “the evil triangle of engineering processes”. It…

    Comment linking /webinars/how-much-freedom-should-developers-have-in-the-perfect-devops-setup

    on “DevOps: Standards vs. Freedom – the ugly triangle of engineering processes”
  8. Submitted DBaaS and Kubernetes: The key to multi-cloud developer productivity? as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  9. Will show how you can implement this in your Internal Developer Platform in minutes in this webinar: https://humanitec.com/webinars/automating-delivery-workflows

    Comment linking /webinars/automating-delivery-workflows

    on “Shipping Webhooks to automate delivery workflows on Kubernetes”
  10. Submitted How to kill developer productivity in your DevOps workflow as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted DevOps: Standards vs. Freedom – the ugly triangle of engineering processes as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Why GitHub built their own Internal Developer Platform as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Shipping Webhooks to automate delivery workflows on Kubernetes as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Build and run a go microservice on K8s as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Top things you can do today as a DevOps to annoy developers as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted Managing environments in K8s with +1 service and app as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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