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Jeremiah Peschka

Personal blog · facility9.com · on HN as peschkajprogrammingdata

Jeremiah Peschka's personal blog at facility9.com covers programming and data. Since 2009, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Why MySQL and Cassandra were not selected for FB messaging”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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8HN people?
2009–2016first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 7 in 2010

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Why HN links it

Commenters link Jeremiah Peschka's posts as sources: an announcement of Rust doc days for rust-lang-nursery crates, and a 2010 post on Facebook's move from Cassandra to HBase for messaging.

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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The author on HN?

peschkaj · 167 karma · member since 2009

data. code. sandwiches. corgis. blog at http://facility9.com

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Most-linked posts?

  1. Why MySQL and Cassandra were not selected for FB messaging
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-11-18

What Hacker News says?

  1. We are in the early stages of having an official docs team; one of the things we want to do is figure out how to encourage better ecosystem docs. Towards that end, right now is the first "doc days": https://facility9.com/2016/06/announcing-rust-doc-days/ we'll be focusing on the rust-lang-nursery crates this time, but will focus on the ecosystem ones in the future! EDIT: Oh, and I've wanted a good way for Cargo to p…

    Comment linking /2016/06/announcing-rust-doc-days/

    on “Shipping forgettable microservices with Rust”
  2. Submitted Foursquare and MongoDB: What If? as a story · 57 points

    HN discussion
  3. Eric, Jonathan Gray said it very clear at his talk at BerlinBuzz: Facebook is now using HBase instead of Cassandra. http://berlinbuzzwords.de/content/realtime-big-data-facebook... You can find a lot of info about the FB process to choose HBase in favor of Cassandra. This one for example: http://facility9.com/2010/11/18/facebook-messaging-hbase-com...

    Comment linking /2010/11/18/facebook-messaging-hbase-comes-of-age

    on “Poll: What database does your company use?”
  4. Submitted Secondary Indexes - How would you do it (in Riak) as a story · 23 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted The Future of Databases as a story · 17 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted O/R-Ms: Panacea or Polio Braces as a story · 10 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Why MySQL and Cassandra were not selected for FB messaging as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Ten reasons PostgreSQL is better than MSSQL (accurate flamebait) as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Three Mistakes I Made With MongoDB as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Getting the ISO Week and Year as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted How to blog better as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Knowing and not Knowing - When is it okay to say "I don't know"? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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