Work in progress: 181,232 of 181,233 sites checked so far, more every week · updated 2 Nov 2026Missing a blog? Tell us

Top all-time · #13667

J

JavaCruft

Personal blog · javacruft.wordpress.comprogrammingsystems

JavaCruft is a personal blog at javacruft.wordpress.com about programming and systems. Since 2011, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.

Visit the blog
5mentions?
5HN people?
2011–2017first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2014

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked as a resource on Metal as a Service and Juju. The posts cover Virtme, a proof-of-concept tool for MAAS, and a partial list of manual steps to reach the same setup.

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.

A blog that's no longer mainly about Java...

What Hacker News says?

  1. On a somewhat related note, here's a couple of links I found when looking around for more info on maas and juju: Virtme: a very promising start to get a proof of concept up and running -- sadly it appears to be abandoned?: https://manage.jujucharms.com/~virtual-maasers/precise/virtm... http://javacruft.wordpress.com/2013/06/25/virtme/ A (partial) list of manual steps that try to achieve the same (with the goal of en…

    Comment linking /2013/06/25/virtme/

    on “Metal as a Service”
  2. Submitted Snap install openstackclients as a story · 52 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted How we scaled OpenStack to launch 168,000 cloud instances as a story · 24 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Scale Testing OpenStack Messaging: RabbitMQ V. ZeroMQ as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Introducing python-jenkins as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion

Search all of HN for javacruft.wordpress.com