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Johann Schleier-Smith

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Johann Schleier-Smith's personal blog at johann.schleier-smith.com covers systems, ai and startups. Since 2015, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Analyzing a read-only transaction anomaly under snapshot isolation (01/2016)”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.

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4mentions?
3HN people?
2015–2016first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2016

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for its analysis of a snapshot isolation read anomaly, a database concurrency topic. The comment only points to the related post.

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.

Johann Schleier-Smith — founder, computer scientist, and technical leader. Writing about distributed systems, serverless computing, machine learning, AI infrastructure, and the architecture of agentic systems.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Analyzing a read-only transaction anomaly under snapshot isolation (01/2016)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-01-13

What Hacker News says?

  1. Related blog post: https://johann.schleier-smith.com/blog/2016/01/06/analyzing-...

    Comment linking /blog/2016/01/06/analyzing-a-read-only-transaction-anomaly-under-snapshot-isolation.html

    on “Show HN: Analyzing a snapshot isolation read anomaly”
  2. Submitted Five questions to ask when starting a company as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Analyzing a read-only transaction anomaly under snapshot isolation (01/2016) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted The Need for Agile Machine Learning as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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