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Klaviyo Engineering
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Klaviyo Engineering is the company blog at klaviyo.tech, writing about programming and ai. Since 2018, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 28 times, most often “Understanding Timings in Distributed Systems”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Klaviyo's engineering blog for accounts of its production systems, such as scaling real-time analytics with Apache Flink. Comments also compare its RabbitMQ and Kafka work with other teams' choices.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Understanding Timings in Distributed Systems2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-11-18
- Scaling Graphite to Millions of Metrics2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-02-22
- Magic: Constant-time tricks that Klaviyo uses to operate at scale2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-02-13
- Scaling Klaviyo’s Event processing Pipeline with Stream Processing2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-01-23
What Hacker News says?
Klaviyo | Boston ONSITE | https://www.klaviyo.com | https://klaviyo.tech | http://bit.ly/klaviyocareers Klaviyo is a data science company that helps brands grow faster. We're profitable, engineering-driven and growing incredibly fast. We have over 12,000 paying customers and are doubling year over year and ingesting an order of magnitude more data every year. We're hiring across the board (Python/Java engineers, sys…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2019)”Submitted Scaling Klaviyo’s Event processing Pipeline with Stream Processing as a story · 23 points
HN discussion> Does anyone have experience running in production? We do: https://klaviyo.tech/scaling-klaviyos-real-time-analytics-sy...
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on “Apache Flink”Submitted Calculating π on Pi Day as a story · 9 points
HN discussionThis is fascinating. Doordash seems to have encountered many of the same problems we (Klaviyo) did using a RabbitMQ/Celery stack, but arrived at totally different answers. Klaviyo doubled down on making the tools work for us, rather than jumping to a new and untested (for us) broker/job framework technology and arrived at some pretty nice solutions: Problems with observability? We added lots of custom StatsD and tex…
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on “Eliminating Task Processing Outages by Replacing RabbitMQ with Apache Kafka”Submitted Poison wheels: a Klaviyo continuous integration fire-fighting story as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Scaling Graphite to Millions of Metrics as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Optimizing Large State Apache Flink Application for 10x Performance as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted GPT-4 for Coding: 16 Observations and Tips as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fast Visual Testing for Embedded Content as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a Distributed Priority Queue on Kafka as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Load Testing Software Systems as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Understanding Timings in Distributed Systems as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Understanding Timings in Distributed Systems as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Git Internals and Tricks: how it works, and how to get out of trouble as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted GPT-4: From strong pair coder to annoying pair coder as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Scaling Klaviyo’s Event Processing Pipeline with Stream Processing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Managing Complexity with Architecture Patterns in Python as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Magic: Constant-time tricks that Klaviyo uses to operate at scale as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Scaling Graphite to Millions of Metrics as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The four levels of AI-driven engineering as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Incident Management from an Astronaut as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hang On, What's Survival Analysis? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted We Chose Pants as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Magic – constant time tricks Klaviyo uses to operate at scale as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Implementing MFA for AWS as a story · 1 points
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