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Mahdi Yusuf
Personal blog · architecturenotes.coprogrammingsystems
Mahdi Yusuf writes Architecture Notes, a personal blog at architecturenotes.co about programming and systems. Since 2022, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 20 times, most often “Database Sharding Explained”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-04, 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 Architecture Notes, a software architecture newsletter and blog with illustrated explainers, such as posts on Redis and things engineers should know about databases.
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.
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Most-linked posts?
- Database Sharding Explained4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-12-13
- Things to know about databases2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-06-27
What Hacker News says?
We have paid membership that currently doesn’t have much yet.. https://architecturenotes.co/membership/ So you can support there though. Do appreciate it. Hoping to do more technical dives on technologies and use cases here soon.
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on “Architecture Notes: Datasette”Submitted Things to know about databases as a story · 730 points
HN discussionThanks for doing this! The only things I noticed is that in this image ( https://architecturenotes.co/content/images/2022/05/Datasett... ) the word "acquire" is misspelled and near the end GitHub is written as "Github" with incorrect casing, despite it being correct earlier on.
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on “Architecture Notes: Datasette”Submitted Redis explained as a story · 455 points
HN discussionHere is the sketch note of the entire post as well. https://architecturenotes.co/content/images/size/w1600/2022/...
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on “Architecture Notes: Datasette”Submitted Architecture Notes: Datasette as a story · 324 points
HN discussionI have written something about this which says SOA is quite the middle ground. https://architecturenotes.co/granularity-of-systems/
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on “GitHub CTO – Biggest architectural mistake was going full microservice”Submitted Fallacies of distributed systems as a story · 224 points
HN discussionHere is the full illustration https://architecturenotes.co/content/images/size/w2000/2022/...
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on “Fallacies of distributed systems”Submitted 12 Factor App Revisited as a story · 43 points
HN discussionSmall plug for what I am working on https://architecturenotes.co which is designed to help with that you are try to learn.
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on “Ask HN: Resources on learning System Design (back end/data engineering)?”Submitted The Cost of AI in Code: Goodbye, Fingerspitzengefühl? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHere are some that I read that I recommend: https://tldr.tech/ - Overview on Tech News in a summarised digest, skip if you're not into daily emails, otherwise great. https://architecturenotes.co/ -- Software Architecture focused, weekly. https://terminaltrove.com/ - Focused on new and interesting terminal tools, weekly newsletter. https://www.pointer.io/ - engineering and leadership focused, current favourite, 2 ema…
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on “Ask HN: What developer newsletters do you read?”Submitted Database Sharding Explained as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI've been enjoying the illustrations at architecturenotes.co especially the posts about redis [1] and things you should know about databases [2] [1] https://architecturenotes.co/redis/ [2] https://architecturenotes.co/things-you-should-know-about-da...
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on “Ask HN: What's your favorite illustration in Computer Science?”Submitted Database Sharding explained through infographic as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Database Sharding Explained as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Architecture Notes: Database sharding explained as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Quorums as a story · 1 points
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