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IFTTT
Company blog · engineering.ifttt.comprogrammingsystems
IFTTT is the company blog at engineering.ifttt.com, writing about programming and systems. Since 2015, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Developing with Docker”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link IFTTT's post on its data infrastructure, which the thread discusses in terms of the company's choice of Kafka over Kinesis for event data.
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.
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Most-linked posts?
- Developing with Docker2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-10-06
- Data Infrastructure at IFTTT2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-10-15
What Hacker News says?
IFTTT - SF, CA * Data Engineer - Build systems to manage, analyze, and visualize massive amounts of fascinating data using Spark, Kafka, Redshift and Ruby. Read more about our infrastructure here: http://engineering.ifttt.com/data/2015/10/14/data-infrastruc... . * Infrastructure Engineer - Automate systems to create and manage clusters of containers that process over 1 billion API requests per day using AWS, Mesos,…
Comment linking /oss/2015/10/06/developing-with-docker/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2015)”Submitted Data Infrastructure at IFTTT as a story · 192 points
HN discussionThank you Jonathan! As Jonathan mentioned, we made this decision around 9 months back and at that time Kinesis wasn't as mature and had less flexibility around retention period etc. Kafka is very reliable (as I had seen it handling billions of events a day at LinkedIn) and has a huge open-source community around it. At IFTTT, we always prefer to use and contribute to open source ( http://engineering.ifttt.com/oss/20…
Comment linking /oss/2015/07/23/open-source/
on “Data Infrastructure at IFTTT”Submitted Sparkle Motion – Paging Animation Framework for Android as a story · 17 points
HN discussionOriginal link: http://engineering.ifttt.com/data/2015/10/14/data-infrastruc... Can a moderator such as dang fix this please?
Comment linking /data/2015/10/14/data-infrastructure/
on “Data Infrastructure at IFTTT”Submitted Developing with Docker as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Work on Open Source at Your Company as a story · 6 points
HN discussion