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It Depends
Personal blog · kislayverma.comprogrammingsystemscareer
It Depends is a personal blog at kislayverma.com about programming, systems and career. Since 2020, 21 different Hacker News readers have linked it 57 times, most often “On Building Scalable Systems”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-22, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Posts on software engineering careers, lessons from 10 years at Google, competitive programming and interviews, and a layman's guide to the cloud. Commenters cite them as support for their own points.
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?
- On Building Scalable Systems4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-03-07
- A case against “Platform Teams”3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-08-27
- How to Organize Your Code?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-06-05
- Guidelines for Writing Useful Libraries2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-01-29
- Layering Domains and Microservices2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-08-02
- Why programmers don’t write documentation2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-04-30
- Competitive programming is useless2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-08-23
What Hacker News says?
If that is the case, why do experienced Software Engineers, have to spend again, weeks on LeetCode as soon as they decide to get back to the Interview circuit? And why are so many competitive programmers,(not all) terrible Software Engineers? https://kislayverma.com/organizations/competitive-programmin... https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/mythbusting-competitive-pr...
Comment linking /organizations/competitive-programming-is-useless/
on “Software Engineering Insights from 10 Years at Google”Submitted Independence, autonomy, and too many small teams as a story · 214 points
HN discussionSome links doesn't work on your website. https://kislayverma.com/programming/learning-react-in-24-hou...
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on “A layman's guide to understanding the Cloud”Submitted Competitive programming is useless as a story · 158 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why programmers don’t write documentation as a story · 151 points
HN discussionSubmitted A layman's guide to understanding the Cloud as a story · 49 points
HN discussionSubmitted Control and Chaos in Platform Systems as a story · 21 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Golden Rule of Building Technical Platforms (Eat Your Own Dogfood) as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Enforcing Constraints in Software Platforms as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted APIs are not platforms (2020) as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Organize Your Code? as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted A case against “Platform Teams” as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Throughput,capacity,and backpressure in distributed systems as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Build a Technology Platform as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Organize code by concepts, not layers as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Layering Domains and Microservices as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A layman's guide to distributed systems as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted An API strategy is not a Platform strategy as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Evolving business rules: a Rulette case study as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building extensible data models in Platform systems as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Learning React in 24 Hours as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why I Love Eclipse Vert.x as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Architecture Patterns: Caching (2022) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Flexible decision-making with Rule Engines as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted On Building Scalable Systems as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Organize Your Code? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why programmers don’t write documentation as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A case against “Platform Teams” as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Case Against Platform Teams as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Control “microservice hell” by layering domains using API Gateways as a story · 2 points
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