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Juncheng Yang

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Juncheng Yang's personal blog at blog.jasony.me covers systems and data. Since 2023, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “FIFO Is Better Than LRU: The Power of Lazy Promotion and Quick Demotion”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-16, and you can follow it by feed.

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5HN people?
2023–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2024

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

Why HN links it

One comment links these posts for notes on implementing lock-free FIFO queues, tied to the S3-FIFO cache eviction work. No outside praise or criticism of the writing appears in the thread.

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.

Juncheng Yang writes about storage systems, cache design, machine-learning infrastructure, and the practice of systems research.

Most-linked posts?

  1. FIFO Is Better Than LRU: The Power of Lazy Promotion and Quick Demotion
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-04-07

What Hacker News says?

  1. 1. I wrote a bit on how to implement lock-free FIFO queues here https://blog.jasony.me/system/cache/2023/12/28/fifo , let me know if any part is not clear or not correct. Moving an object from the small queue to the main queue can be viewed as two operations: evicting the item from the small queue and inserting it into the main queue. 2. I am not criticizing the design decision in Caffeine. It is good because most p…

    Comment linking /system/cache/2023/12/28/fifo

    on “Otter, Fastest Go in-memory cache based on S3-FIFO algorithm”
  2. Submitted FIFO queues are all you need for cache eviction as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted FIFO Is Better Than LRU: The Power of Lazy Promotion and Quick Demotion as a story · 3 points

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  4. Submitted FIFO Is Better Than LRU: The Power of Lazy Promotion and Quick Demotion as a story · 2 points

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  5. Submitted FIFO Is Better Than LRU: The Power of Lazy Promotion and Quick Demotion as a story · 2 points

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