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Klarna Engineering is the company blog at engineering.klarna.com, writing about programming. Since 2013, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 37 times, most often “Performance as first class citizen – continuous measurement and tooling”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-30, and you can follow it by feed.

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37mentions?
16HN people?
2013–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 17 in 2017

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

Why HN links it

The only comment notes that a Reddit link points to Klarna's engineering post on how removing caching improved mobile performance by 25%. No comment judges the writing.

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.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Performance as first class citizen – continuous measurement and tooling
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-10-31
  2. Architecture Decision Studio at Klarna – keeping it smoooth
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-10-29

What Hacker News says?

  1. Best one in the nordics https://engineering.klarna.com/

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    on “Ask HN: Which companies have the best blogs written by their engineering team?”
  2. Submitted The hunt for a cluster-killer Erlang bug (2021) as a story · 291 points

    HN discussion
  3. The reddit link just points to https://engineering.klarna.com/how-removing-caching-improved...

    Comment linking /how-removing-caching-improved-mobile-performance-by-25-52a17cc339a2

    on “How removing caching improved mobile performance by 25%”
  4. Submitted How removing caching improved mobile performance by 25% as a story · 116 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted The hunt for a cluster-killer Erlang bug as a story · 11 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted How to run an internal tech conference, in detail as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Lessons learned from optimizing the performance of a Node.js service as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted How we built a tool for validating big data workflows as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Performance as first class citizen – continuous measurement and tooling as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Why you should follow the robustness principle in your APIs as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Improving Communication and Confidence with Visual Snapshot Testing as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Why I Failed Teaching Programming to Kids as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Monitoring Erlang Atoms as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Architecture Decision Studio at Klarna – keeping it smoooth as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Architecture Golf – make knowledge sharing smoooth as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted Takeaways of Starting as an Software Engineer Graduate at Klarna as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Architecture Decision Studio as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Stepping Down as a Dictator: Giving Teams Permission to Make Decisions as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted Ensuring Parity Btwn Build and Production Environments Using Jenkins and Docker as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted Performance as first class citizen – Part 1: continuous measurement and tooling as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted A year of mob programming as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted Four reasons developers should write their own load tests as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted Four load testing mistakes developers love to make as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted How removing caching improved mobile performance by 25% as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  25. Submitted The hunt for the cluster-killer Erlang bug (2021) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  26. Submitted Deployment: What good looks like at Klarna as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  27. Submitted How many tennis balls can fit in a plane? – 100 hires later as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  28. Submitted Query AWS Redshift Like a Boss as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  29. Submitted How to Master Java Transformations in AWS Glue as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  30. Submitted Are we superheroes or do we need restraints? as a story · 1 points

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