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Jack Lindamood
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Jack Lindamood writes Jack's home on the web, a personal blog at cep.dev about programming and systems. Since 2024, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Almost every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-10-06, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked post lists infrastructure decisions the author endorses or regrets after four years, such as multiple applications sharing a database. One commenter cites it as a data point for a similar decision.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Jack Lindamood's blog and other random thoughts
Most-linked posts?
- Almost every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-02-09
What Hacker News says?
> Multiple applications sharing a database [0] > Regret Thanks for this data point. I am currently trying to make this call, and I was still on the fence. This has tipped me to the separate db side. Can anyone else share their experience with this decision? [0] https://cep.dev/posts/every-infrastructure-decision-i-endors...
Comment linking /posts/every-infrastructure-decision-i-endorse-or-regret-after-4-years-running-infrastructure-at-a-startup/
on “Almost Every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret after 4 years”Submitted Almost every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret as a story · 1181 points
HN discussionSubmitted Design better software abstractions using bipartite composition (2019) as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted Almost Every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret after 4 years runnin as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted My process to debug DNS timeouts in a large EKS cluster as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Infrastructure decisions I endorse or regret in 4y running infra at a startup as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Almost Every infra decision I endorse/regret after 4 years running startup inf as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Almost Every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret after 4 years as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Infrastructure decisions I endorse or regret after 4 years at a startup as a story · 2 points
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