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jra's thoughts
Personal blog · blog.nella.orgprogrammingsystems
jra's thoughts is a personal blog at blog.nella.org about programming and systems. Since 2012, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Taking an MQTT server out for a few holes on the code golf course”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link jra's posts on MQTT broker benchmarks and Go-vs-D-vs-Erlang-vs-C "code golf", and on seeking HTTP inside large zip files. Comments cite these as context or prior work.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Taking an MQTT server out for a few holes on the code golf course3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-12-05
- Zero Downtime upgrades of TCP servers in Go2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-05-29
What Hacker News says?
Differing values for the same currency surprised me in Liberia too: https://blog.nella.org/my-favorite-things-all-at-once/
Comment linking /my-favorite-things-all-at-once/
on “Old bills in Yemen are worth 10% more than new ones”Submitted Zero Downtime upgrades of TCP servers in Go as a story · 12 points
HN discussionQuite a few things. The Go version was written by a person enthusiastic and presumably competent in Go. See their perspective here where he concedes defeat on the performance front: http://blog.nella.org/mqtt-code-golf/ Adding C as a baseline is entirely appropriate. The source code for C, Go, and D is available. The Erlang version may or may not at the discretion of its author. Probably a more sensible hypothesis i…
Comment linking /mqtt-code-golf/
on “Benchmarking D vs Go vs Erlang vs C for MQTT broker ”Submitted Zero Downtime upgrades of TCP servers in Go as a story · 4 points
HN discussionReading about load testing mqtt reminded me of these articles describing some mqtt competitive coding I did with a couple of friends: http://blog.nella.org/mqtt-code-golf/ https://atilaoncode.blog/2013/12/05/go-vs-d-vs-erlang-vs-c-i... https://atilaoncode.blog/2014/01/08/adding-java-and-c-to-the...
Comment linking /mqtt-code-golf/
on “Oidbs: An Open Source MQTT Driven Benchmark Suite for IoT Data”Submitted Taking an MQTT server out for a few holes on the code golf course as a story · 1 points
HN discussionHere's the results of my investigation into the same question: https://blog.nella.org/2016/01/17/seeking-http/ (Originally written for Advent of Go.)
Comment linking /2016/01/17/seeking-http/
on “Peeking Inside Gigantic Zips with Only Kilobytes”