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LocalyticsEng is the company blog at eng.localytics.com, writing about programming and systems. Since 2015, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 38 times, most often “Six Recipes for Software Managers”. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.

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38mentions?
15HN people?
2015–2018first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 17 in 2015

Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link the Localytics engineering blog for its article on command-line app best practices. Most comments are Localytics job listings that say nothing about the writing.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

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Most-linked posts?

  1. /
    2 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2016-10-03
  2. Six Recipes for Software Managers
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-09-26
  3. Testing AWS Scala Microservices
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-04-27

What Hacker News says?

  1. Localytics | Boston | Sr. Full Stack, Sr. Front End, Mobile, Sr. Back End Big Data, Managers, Solutions Consultants, Solutions Architects | ONSITE Localytics provides a mobile engagement platform for many of the world’s top app publishers including ESPN, Grindr, GoPro, and HBO. Our customers rely on us to keep their mobile users happy and engaged. We provide tools to drive great app experiences including push messag…

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2017)”
  2. Submitted Exploring CLI Best Practices as a story · 276 points

    HN discussion
  3. Localytics - Boston, MA - FULL-TIME, H1B Localytics is hiring engineers to help us with: - iOS, Android, JavaScript SDKs - Data platform technologies including Spark - Microservices on Play with Scala - Delivery and Internal Tools - Technical Operations - Front End development and data visualizations with AngularJS and D3.js - Ruby on Rails About Localytics: * We provide app analytics and app marketing services for…

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2015)”
  4. Submitted Intro to Node on AWS Lambda for S3 and Kinesis as a story · 95 points

    HN discussion
  5. Localytics | Boston | Sr. Full Stack, Sr. Front End, Mobile, Sr. Back End Big Data, Solutions Consultants, Solutions Architects | ONSITE Localytics provides a mobile engagement platform for many of the world’s top app publishers including ESPN, Grindr, GoPro, and HBO. Our customers rely on us to keep their mobile users happy and engaged. We provide tools to drive great app experiences including push messaging, mobil…

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2017)”
  6. Submitted Flirting with Elixir as a story · 81 points

    HN discussion
  7. Localytics | Boston | Sr. Full Stack, Sr. Front End, Mobile, Sr. Back End Big Data, Managers, Solutions Consultants, Solutions Architects | ONSITE Localytics provides a mobile engagement platform for many of the world’s top app publishers including ESPN, Grindr, GoPro, and HBO. Our customers rely on us to keep their mobile users happy and engaged. We provide tools to drive great app experiences including push messag…

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2017)”
  8. Submitted Performance in Big Data Land: Every CPU cycle matters as a story · 66 points

    HN discussion
  9. Localytics | Boston | Front End, Full Stack, Back End, Mobile | ONSITE * Front End - ES6, React, Redux, Webpack * Full Stack - Scala, Rails, AWS * Back End - Scala, MPP DBs, AWS * Mobile - iOS, Android Localytics provides a mobile engagement platform for many of the world’s top app publishers including ESPN, Grindr, Periscope, and HBO. Our customers rely on us to keep their mobile users happy and engaged. We provide…

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2016)”
  10. Submitted Serverless Slackbots Powered by AWS as a story · 57 points

    HN discussion
  11. Localytics | Boston | Sr. Full Stack, Sr. Front End, Mobile, Sr. Back End Big Data | ONSITE Localytics provides a mobile engagement platform for many of the world’s top app publishers including ESPN, Grindr, GoPro, and HBO. Our customers rely on us to keep their mobile users happy and engaged. We provide tools to drive great app experiences including push messaging, mobile analytics, predictive analytics, and indivi…

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2017)”
  12. Submitted When Things Go Wrong as a story · 45 points

    HN discussion
  13. Localytics | Boston | Sr. Full Stack, Sr. Front End, Mobile, Sr. Back End Big Data, Managers, Solutions Consultants, Solutions Architects | ONSITE Localytics provides a mobile engagement platform for many of the world’s top app publishers including ESPN, Grindr, GoPro, and HBO. Our customers rely on us to keep their mobile users happy and engaged. We provide tools to drive great app experiences including push messag…

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2017)”
  14. Submitted Akka without the Actors as a story · 25 points

    HN discussion
  15. drewmassey · 2018-10-09Recommends
    I’m a huge admirer or well crafted cli apps, they can massively boost the effectiveness of a team. An oldie but goodie here: https://eng.localytics.com/exploring-cli-best-practices/

    Comment linking /exploring-cli-best-practices/

    on “12 Factor CLI Apps”
  16. Submitted Tips and Tricks for debugging unfamiliar AngularJS code as a story · 21 points

    HN discussion
  17. Localytics | Boston | Engineering Manager, Front End Engineer, Back End Engineer | ONSITE Localytics provides a mobile engagement platform for many of the world’s top app publishers including ESPN, Grindr, GoPro, and HBO. Our customers rely on us to keep their mobile users happy and engaged. We provide tools to drive great app experiences including push messaging, mobile analytics, predictive analytics, and individu…

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2018)”
  18. Submitted How we optimized our big Sass builds with Webpack as a story · 20 points

    HN discussion
  19. Localytics - Boston, MA - FULL-TIME, INTERN, H1B Localytics is hiring engineers to help us with: - iOS, Android, JavaScript SDK and app development - Data platform technologies including Spark and MPP Databases - Microservices on Play with Scala - Delivery, Internal Tools, AWS, Infrastructure as code - Front End development with ES6, React and D3.js About Localytics: * We provide app analytics and app marketing serv…

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2015)”
  20. Submitted Amazon EBS SC1 Initial Impressions as a story · 17 points

    HN discussion
  21. Localytics - Boston, MA - FULL-TIME, INTERN, H1B Localytics is hiring engineers to help us with: - Delivery and Internal Tools - Technical Operations - Data platform technologies including Spark - Microservices on Play in Scala - Data visualizations with D3.js - iOS, Android, JavaScript - Ruby on Rails About Localytics: * We provide app analytics and app marketing services for thousands of apps on over two billion d…

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2015)”
  22. Submitted Spark whistling past the data platform graveyard as a story · 13 points

    HN discussion
  23. Localytics - Boston, MA - FULL-TIME, INTERN, H1B Localytics is hiring engineerings to work on: - Delivery and Internal Tools - Technical Operations - Data platform technologies - Microservices on Play in Scala - Data visualizations with D3.js - iOS, Android, JavaScript - Ruby on Rails About Localytics: * We provide app analytics and app marketing services for thousands of apps on over two billion devices * We are on…

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2015)”
  24. Submitted Humidifier - CloudFormation Made Easier as a story · 12 points

    HN discussion
  25. Localytics | Boston | Sr. Full Stack, Sr. Front End, Mobile, Sr. Back End Big Data, Solutions Consultants, Solutions Architects | ONSITE Localytics provides a mobile engagement platform for many of the world’s top app publishers including ESPN, Grindr, GoPro, and HBO. Our customers rely on us to keep their mobile users happy and engaged. We provide tools to drive great app experiences including push messaging, mobil…

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2017)”
  26. Submitted Testing AWS Scala Microservices as a story · 11 points

    HN discussion
  27. Localytics | Boston | Sr. Full Stack, Sr. Front End, Mobile, Sr. Back End Big Data, Managers, Solutions Consultants, Solutions Architects | ONSITE Localytics provides a mobile engagement platform for many of the world’s top app publishers including ESPN, Grindr, GoPro, and HBO. Our customers rely on us to keep their mobile users happy and engaged. We provide tools to drive great app experiences including push messag…

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2017)”
  28. Submitted Six Recipes for Software Managers as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  29. Localytics - Boston, MA - FULL-TIME, H1B Localytics is hiring engineers to help us with: - iOS, Android, JavaScript SDKs - Data platform technologies including Spark - Microservices on Play with Scala - Delivery and Internal Tools - Technical Operations - Front End development and data visualizations with AngularJS and D3.js - Ruby on Rails About Localytics: * We provide app analytics and app marketing services for…

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2015)”
  30. Submitted Manage SSH Keys on AWS with a Centralized Directory Service as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion

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