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Kyle Brandt

Personal blog · kbrandt.com · on HN as KyleBrandtprogrammingsystemspolitics

Kyle Brandt's personal blog at kbrandt.com covers programming, systems and politics. Since 2011, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Stack Overflow's Bosun Monitoring Architecture”. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.

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5mentions?
3HN people?
2011–2016first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2016

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link this post, a write-up of the architecture and setup of Bosun, Stack Exchange's monitoring and alerting system. One commenter points to it as a resource on how the software is used in practice.

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.

Technical Manager / SRE / Programmer

The author on HN?

KyleBrandt · 969 karma · member since 2010

Dev at Grafana http://blog.kbrandt.com

From their public HN profile, which links to this site.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Stack Overflow's Bosun Monitoring Architecture
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-03-02

What Hacker News says?

  1. A bit tangential, but if you look at resources you'll find a blog post [0] where they write about their setup. Getting to read how a piece of software is being used is usually more insightful than just reading up on what it does. [0] http://kbrandt.com/post/bosun_arch/

    Comment linking /post/bosun_arch/

    on “Bosun – monitoring and alerting system by Stack Exchange”
  2. Submitted Conflating the Roles of Alerting and Dashboards as a story · 55 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Stack Overflow's Bosun Monitoring Architecture as a story · 18 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted False Dichotomies of Huge Dickensians as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted SOPA: Balancing the Concerns of Industries as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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