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lethargy.org is a personal blog at lethargy.org about programming, systems and data. Since 2007, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “Databases: Partitioning vs. Federation vs. Sharding”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

16mentions?
13HN people?
2007–2019first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2007

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

Why HN links it

Linked for posts on database sharding, partitioning and federation, and a 2007 PostgreSQL versus MySQL comparison on reliability and speed. The comments only cite these posts as resources.

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. Databases: Partitioning vs. Federation vs. Sharding
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2007-09-08

What Hacker News says?

  1. Actually stripping debug information (or compiling without -g) makes it very difficult to troubleshoot a problem in production, where the binary might be deployed at a customer's site, and where the source code might not be available (firewall, no network connection, ...) The additional information is encoded into the ELF header, but ignored by the runtime linker, so it does not hurt the performance of the program.…

    Comment linking /~jesus/writes/mdb-ctf-dwarf-and-other-angelic-things/

    on “Why is a Rust executable large?”
  2. Submitted Extending and Embedding as a story · 16 points

    HN discussion
  3. A little on sharding: An Unorthodox Approach to Database Design : The Coming of the Shard [ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38407 ] Partitioning vs. Federation vs. Sharding [ http://www.lethargy.org/~jesus/archives/95-Partitioning-vs.-... ]

    Comment linking /~jesus/archives/95-Partitioning-vs.-Federation-vs.-Sharding.html

    on “Why PostgreSQL Instead of MySQL: Comparing Reliability and Speed in 2007”
  4. Submitted Sometimes PostgreSQL time calculation is just too clever as a story · 15 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted AMQP for PostgreSQL as a story · 10 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Databases: Partitioning vs. Federation vs. Sharding as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Beware of strace as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Scalability vs. Performance: it isn't a battle as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Entrepreneur ProTips (from a bootstrapper) as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted 折伏 – as it relates to coding as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Creativity and Execution as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Dissecting today's Internet traffic spikes as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted SUNW_cap arcana as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Advice as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted #ywahusty: you will always have users smarter than you as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted Scalability and concessions as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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