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Personal blog · idleprocess.wordpress.comsystemsprogramming

Idle Process is a personal blog at idleprocess.wordpress.com about systems and programming. Since 2009, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “High Performance at Massive Scale: Lessons Learned at Facebook”. The last post was in 2010, but the archive is still widely read.

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7HN people?
2009–2013first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2009

Thoughts on systems and networking, with occasional detours

Most-linked posts?

  1. High Performance at Massive Scale: Lessons Learned at Facebook
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-12-07

What Hacker News says?

  1. Submitted High Performance at Massive Scale: Lessons Learned at Facebook as a story · 66 points

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  2. Submitted High Performance at Massive Scale: Lessons Learned at Facebook as a story · 46 points

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  3. Submitted Why Go to Graduate School and Getting into the Program of your Dreams as a story · 38 points

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  4. Submitted The Blurring of Layer 2 and Layer 3 as a story · 14 points

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  5. Submitted Doing “Big Science” In Academia as a story · 13 points

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  6. Submitted The Achilles' Heel of Performance Isolation in the Cloud as a story · 12 points

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  7. Submitted Gray Sort: The Most Fun I’ve Ever Had with (a few racks of) Computers as a story · 4 points

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  8. Submitted Gray Sort: The Most Fun I’ve Ever Had with (a few racks of) Computers as a story · 3 points

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  9. Submitted When 640KB is Still a Lot of Memory (on scaling Layer 2 networks) as a story · 3 points

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