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MahdyTech is a personal blog at mahdytech.com about programming and systems. Since 2019, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Using Async Correctly Increased Throughput by 4X”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.

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13mentions?
3HN people?
2019–2022first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 12 in 2019

A starter blog demonstrating what Gatsby can do.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Using Async Correctly Increased Throughput by 4X
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-02-23
  2. Curious Case of a 99.9% Latency Hike
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-01-13

What Hacker News says?

  1. I recommend to do more debugging next time and see which process exactly is costing you all this. It sounds like a classic memory leak - those can be triggered nondeterministically. Maybe try some of the tools suggested here https://mahdytech.com/2019/01/05/task-manager-memory-info/

    Comment linking /2019/01/05/task-manager-memory-info/

    on “Curious Case of a 99.9% Latency Hike”
  2. Submitted Do Not Use Task Manager for Memory Info as a story · 123 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Curious Case of a 99.9% Latency Hike as a story · 65 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted When Lower Load Triggers Higher Latencies as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Livesite by a Thousand Spikes as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted UMDH: Catching Slow Leaks Red-Handed as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Profiling Processor Cache Misses with VTune as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted The Curious Case of the 99.9% Latency Hike as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Using Async Correctly Increased Throughput by 4X as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Not All Async Is Equal: How Using Async Correctly Increased Throughput by 4X as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Wielding Debug Builds Against Heap Corruption as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Spawning Your First C++ Fleet with Service Fabric and REST SDK as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Using Async Correctly Increased Throughput by 4X as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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