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Kaushik Sathupadi

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Kaushik Sathupadi's personal blog at ksat.me covers programming and systems. Since 2010, 19 different Hacker News readers have linked it 28 times, most often “A plain english introduction to CAP Theorem”. The last post was in 2012, but the archive is still widely read.

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28mentions?
19HN people?
2010–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 12 in 2012

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Kaushik Sathupadi's blog for posts on Heroku routing and web performance, and for a Chrome extension that fixes expired or unknown links on Hacker News.

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.

Most-linked posts?

  1. A plain english introduction to CAP Theorem
    9 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2011-08-18
  2. Map Reduce: A simple introduction (2010)
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2010-09-30
  3. ShowHN: A Chrome plugin to deal with the HN's 'Unknown or expired link'
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-07-02
  4. A plain English introduction to CAP Theorem
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-05-31

What Hacker News says?

  1. > What's the constraint that prevents you from having your dynos register with the loadbalancer cluster and then having the latter perform leastconn balancing per application? This is how it works. Dynos register their presence into a dyno manager which publishes the results into a feed, and then all the routing nodes subscribe to that feed. But dyno presence is not the rapidly-changing data which is subject to CAP…

    Comment linking /a-plain-english-introduction-to-cap-theorem/

    on “Answering your questions about Heroku routing and web performance”
  2. Submitted Map Reduce: A simple introduction (2010) as a story · 117 points

    HN discussion
  3. Chrome Plugin: http://ksat.me/chrome-plugin-to-fix-hn-unknown-or-expired-li... Works like a dream.

    Comment linking /chrome-plugin-to-fix-hn-unknown-or-expired-link/

    on “HN: Please fix the "More" link.”
  4. Submitted Map Reduce: A really simple introduction as a story · 100 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Parse, Firebase and the comeback of Two-Tier as a story · 40 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted A plain english introduction to CAP Theorem as a story · 14 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted ShowHN: A Chrome plugin to deal with the HN's 'Unknown or expired link' as a story · 11 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted The Literally Sexy, Sexy Password Field as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted ShowHN:(my weekend hack): SafariShot: Screenshots like it's running on a mac as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted A plain English introduction to the CAP theorem as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted What is evented IO and why does it scale? as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted CAP theorem in plain English as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Simple introduction to MapReduce as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted A plain English introduction to CAP theorem as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted A plain English introduction to CAP Theorem as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted Plain English Explanation of Cap as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Stop setting focus on “username” field if I am already on “password” field as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted "But why does evented programming scale?" - Explained in Plain english as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted A plain english introduction to CAP Theorem as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted A plain english introduction to CAP Theorem as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted A plain english introduction to CAP Theorem (2011) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted A Plain English Introduction to CAP Theorem « Kaushik Sathupadi as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted CAP in plain english as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted MapReduce: a really simple introduction as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  25. Submitted What can you do before your battery runs out? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  26. Submitted Why you'll like Fantom as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  27. Submitted When the drawing board screws you over as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  28. Submitted Automation is not always Scalable as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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