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Jens Rantil

Personal blog · jensrantil.github.io/postsprogrammingcareer

Jens Rantil's personal blog at jensrantil.github.io covers programming and career. Since 2015, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 88 times, most often “An Example of Throughput vs. Latency”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-20, and you can follow it by feed.

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88mentions?
9HN people?
2015–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 28 in 2023

Backend/security/infrastructure/DevOps/staff(ish) engineer, engineering mathematics, traveller, nerd, juggler, guitar/african drum player. Inspired Swede.

Most-linked posts?

  1. An Example of Throughput vs. Latency
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-10-11
  2. Fine-grained caching strategies of dynamic queries
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-09-13
  3. The Downsides of API Batching
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-05-05
  4. Staging Environments
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-05-12
  5. The Problem Space
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-07-06
  6. What Is an Incident, Anyway?
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-12-17
  7. Safety Type 1 and 2
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-11-06
  8. What's in a Good Answer?
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-05-18
  9. Raise and Release
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-01-10
  10. The Upside of Impostor Syndrome
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-08-29

What Hacker News says?

  1. JensRantil · 2025-12-24
    Fun fact: Many times you can also declassify numbers by simply looking at the width of the text boxes. I wrote a blog post about it many years ago: https://jensrantil.github.io/posts/how-to-partially-declassi...

    Comment linking /posts/how-to-partially-declassify-nsa-docs/

    on “Some Epstein file redactions are being undone with hacks”
  2. JensRantil · 2024-07-06

    Submitted Staging Environments as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  3. JensRantil · 2024-12-19
    Agree. I actually decided to blog about that here earlier today: https://jensrantil.github.io/posts/pair-mob-sessions/

    Comment linking /posts/pair-mob-sessions/

    on “Developing Developers (2015)”
  4. JensRantil · 2025-03-11

    Submitted The Dangers of an IDE as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  5. JensRantil · 2024-01-13

    Submitted I once almost burned out as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  6. sydcanem · 2015-07-02

    Submitted I'm a State Engineer. Are You, Too? as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  7. JensRantil · 2026-02-20

    Submitted AI is nothing new, LLMs are as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  8. JensRantil · 2024-12-06

    Submitted Good Process Is Invisible as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  9. JensRantil · 2024-10-11

    Submitted An Example of Throughput vs. Latency as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  10. JensRantil · 2024-07-07

    Submitted Tools for Innovation in Tech as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  11. jeekl · 2024-05-12

    Submitted Staging Environments as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  12. JensRantil · 2020-01-12

    Submitted Testing Strategy over Time as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  13. elcritch · 2017-02-15

    Submitted Bootstrapping: CouchDB as event store as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  14. curtis · 2015-10-14

    Submitted Salt vs. Ansible for deployment automation (2014) as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  15. JensRantil · 2026-10-15

    Submitted Always log your configuration when booting as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. JensRantil · 2026-10-14

    Submitted Departure Learning Reviews as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. JensRantil · 2026-04-05

    Submitted Code Freezes can have the opposite effect as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  18. mooreds · 2026-04-01

    Submitted An AI/ML accuracy tale (2023) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  19. mooreds · 2025-11-21

    Submitted Business contracts are transport agnostic as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  20. JensRantil · 2025-01-10

    Submitted Raise and Release as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  21. JensRantil · 2024-12-06

    Submitted Safety Type 1 and 2 as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  22. mooreds · 2024-11-06

    Submitted Safety Type 1 and 2 as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  23. JensRantil · 2024-10-29

    Submitted A large project, broken up as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  24. mooreds · 2024-10-12

    Submitted An Example of Throughput vs. Latency as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  25. JensRantil · 2024-08-21

    Submitted Engineers are not just builders as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  26. JensRantil · 2024-08-08

    Submitted Natural Solutions as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  27. JensRantil · 2024-07-07

    Submitted The Problem Space as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  28. JensRantil · 2024-07-07

    Submitted Architecture at Multiple Scales as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  29. JensRantil · 2024-07-06

    Submitted Security is just one part of risk as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  30. JensRantil · 2024-07-06

    Submitted A workshop on evolutionary systems design as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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