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Liron Shapira
Personal blog · lironshapira.medium.comstartupsprogramming
Liron Shapira's personal blog at lironshapira.medium.com covers startups and programming. Since 2020, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Data denormalization is Broken (2016)”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The comments discuss event sourcing and data-layer design, and the Supabase beta launch. None of them judge the writing itself, so the linked posts seem to be about those topics.
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?
- Data denormalization is Broken (2016)4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-12-03
What Hacker News says?
I think there's a middle option between (1) building your application up from a low-level stream-of-events data model and (2) having your application full of logic to snap from one high-level state to another without a good data-layer audit trail: I'm talking about indexes. Yes, the index part of your database is amazing, because it constantly snaps itself into various states, and you know exactly why: because it ne…
Comment linking /data-denormalization-is-broken-7b697352f405
on “Event Sourcing Is Hard (2019)”Submitted Data denormalization is Broken (2016) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionReally nicely done beta page, and the product is something that's needed to exist for a long time now. I remember talking with the RethinkDB guys before they closed and being worried they were making a bad decision not getting a cloud service in place earlier, so good on doing that. I have two points of feedback: 1. How open source is it? I didn't get a great feel from the beta page, but will you make it as easy as…
Comment linking /data-denormalization-is-broken-7b697352f405
on “Supabase Beta: Auth, SQL Editor, Benchmarks”Submitted Manhandle Your Early Users as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I’m a guy who does Electrical Muscle Stimulation instead of going to the gym as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Data Denormalization Is Broken as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sample Questions for the Y Combinator Interview as a story · 1 points
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