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Marketing is the company blog at product.hubspot.com, writing about programming, design and career. Since 2015, 36 different Hacker News readers have linked it 111 times, most often “Premature Flexibilization Is the Root of Whatever Evil Is Left”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (19) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link HubSpot's product blog mainly for the essay "Premature Flexibilization Is the Root of Whatever Evil Is Left", cited in discussions of premature abstraction. Other posts cover deployment practices and logging costs.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 19 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?
- Premature Flexibilization Is the Root of Whatever Evil Is Left3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-07-21
- G1GC Fundamentals: Lessons from Taming Garbage Collection2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-06-19
- An alternative to fat JARs2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-06-20
- Inheriting Code: Why You Should Keep Code Teardowns to Yourself2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-04-25
- Designing for Anxieties2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-04-28
- Misnomers and Confusing Terms in Machine Learning2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-02-18
- G1GC Fundamentals: Lessons from Taming Garbage Collection2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-04-19
- Our Journey to Multi Region2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-03-23
- Saving Millions on Logging: Finding Relevant Savings2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-01-27
- Healing HBase Locality at Scale2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-02-05
What Hacker News says?
never, ever push changes on a Friday. I think this goes a little too far. I personally push code every Friday morning, and keep my Friday schedule relatively open so I have time to deal with any surprises. Many successful companies brag (justifiably) about their continuous deployment systems and speed of deployment. I can't believe they suspend all of that every Friday. http://product.hubspot.com/blog/how-we-deploy-…
Comment linking /blog/how-we-deploy-300-times-a-day
on “Be Kind”Submitted How to Learn Complex Things Quickly: A Guide as a story · 267 points
HN discussionIn a similar vein, see "Premature Flexibilization is the Root of Whatever Evil is Left": https://product.hubspot.com/blog/bid/7271/premature-flexibil...
Comment linking /blog/bid/7271/premature-flexibilization-is-the-root-of-whatever-evil-is-left
on “The Wrong Abstraction (2016)”Submitted Why we choose Java instead of a polyglot stack as a story · 175 points
HN discussionHubSpot is hiring for software developers in Cambridge/Boston and Dublin. Looking for front-end (React/Flux, Backbone, ES6/CoffeeScript) and back-end (java, hbase, kafka, hadoop) developers who enjoy working in small teams that own significant parts of our products. Developer autonomy and responsibility are what fuels our product culture. Our marketing & sales platform help small businesses grow. More on our team, c…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2015)”Submitted Migrating ZooKeeper into Kubernetes as a story · 97 points
HN discussionI'll just point out (as a much older engineer than you), that this article is HIGHLY skewed to YC Companies, that have self-selected as not solving hard technical problems. As a founder, being in YC is probably great. As an engineering employee, it doesn't seem all that compelling to work for a YC company compared to a non-yc company. None of the benefits of being a YC founder seemingly apply to an employee of a YC…
Comment linking /apply?gh_jid=86940
on “Who Y Combinator Companies Want”Submitted An alternative to fat JARs as a story · 73 points
HN discussion>aggressive You are reading aggression in based on the fact that I am disagreeing with you. It is text over the internet. Whatever tone you are gathering is purely imagined. I would suggest you visit fewer circle jerk areas and discuss things. People telling you you’re wrong and why is not aggression. >source I mean. I assume you’re a developer as you have a strong opinion on immutability. So just test it? It isn’t…
Comment linking /blog/immutability-and-performance
on “Show HN: I Wrote a Book on Java”Submitted How HubSpot scaled AI adoption as a story · 71 points
HN discussionHubSpot | Cambridge/Boston/Dublin | full time, onsite Looking for front-end (React/Flux, Backbone, ES6/CoffeeScript) and back-end (Java8, HBase, Kafka, Hadoop/Spark, ElasticSearch) developers who enjoy working in small teams that own significant parts of our products. Developer autonomy and responsibility are what fuels our product culture. Our products are helping transform how small businesses do marketing & sales…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2015)”Submitted Six Tips to Ace a SQL Interview as a story · 51 points
HN discussionHubSpot is hiring for software developers in Cambridge/Boston and Dublin ONSITE. Looking for front-end (React/Flux, Backbone, ES6/CoffeeScript) and back-end (java, hbase, kafka, hadoop) developers who enjoy working in small teams that own significant parts of our products. Developer autonomy and responsibility are what fuels our product culture. Our marketing & sales platform help small businesses grow. More on our…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2015)”Submitted Using Apache Kafka for Consumer Metrics as a story · 47 points
HN discussionHubSpot is hiring for software developers & designers in Cambridge/Boston and Dublin. Looking for front-end (React, Backbone, ES6/CoffeeScript) and back-end (java, hbase, kafka, hadoop) developers who enjoy working in small teams that own significant parts of our products. Developer autonomy and responsibility are what fuels our product culture. Our marketing & sales platform help small businesses grow. More on our…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2015)”Submitted How We Built Our Stack for Shipping at Scale as a story · 40 points
HN discussionHubSpot | Cambridge/Boston/Dublin | full time, onsite Looking for front-end (React/Flux, Backbone, ES6/CoffeeScript) and back-end (Java8, HBase, Kafka, Hadoop/Spark, ElasticSearch) developers who enjoy working in small teams that own significant parts of our products. Developer autonomy and responsibility are what fuels our product culture. Our products are helping transform how small businesses do marketing & sales…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2015)”Submitted How to gain widespread adoption of your design system as a story · 26 points
HN discussionHubSpot - Boston/Cambridge - http://product.hubspot.com Looking for front-end developers (React, ES6, Backbone, CoffeeScript) or back-end developers (Java, Dropwizard, Kafka, Elastic Search). Position is onsite in our beautiful office. We're building platforms for sales & marketing software. Each team owns a core vertical of the product, and are given real responsibility and ownership of their components.
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2015)”Submitted I Became an Engineering Director (By Becoming a Software Engineer Again) as a story · 25 points
HN discussionHubSpot | Cambridge/Boston/Dublin | full time, onsite Looking for front-end (React/Flux, Backbone, ES6/CoffeeScript) and back-end (Java8, HBase, Kafka, Hadoop/Spark, ElasticSearch) developers who enjoy working in small teams that own significant parts of our products. Developer autonomy and responsibility are what fuels our product culture. Our products are helping transform how small businesses do marketing & sales…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2015)”Submitted Cloud Coding Agents at HubSpot as a story · 24 points
HN discussionAs a former scientist and now professional software developer I can confirm some of the observations of the article. This is because enterprise developers do premature flexibilization. And "Premature Flexibilization Is The Root of Whatever Evil Is Left", see http://product.hubspot.com/blog/bid/7271/premature-flexibili... But on the other side, most scientific code I've seen, is simple (not by readability, but it use…
Comment linking /blog/bid/7271/premature-flexibilization-is-the-root-of-whatever-evil-is-left
on “Why bad scientific code beats code following “best practices” (2014)”Submitted Upgrading to Java 8 at Scale as a story · 24 points
HN discussionI think we must be misunderstanding each other. Developers are human. (At least, I think we are.) We respond to the incentives and structure of the environment in which we're developing. A culture of "throw crap over the wall to QA" naturally creates an incentive for quickly writing up features, without balancing that with robustness, because finding the problems "is QA's fault". A culture of "the devs are responsib…
Comment linking /blog/the-classic-qa-team-is-obsolete
on “Yahoo’s Engineers Move to Coding Without a QA Team”Submitted Need for Speed: Accelerating Maven Snapshots as a story · 20 points
HN discussionThis explains most of these horrible Java libraries: http://product.hubspot.com/blog/bid/7271/premature-flexibili...
Comment linking /blog/bid/7271/premature-flexibilization-is-the-root-of-whatever-evil-is-left
on “Qualities of clean code”Submitted How HubSpot Upgraded a Thousand MySQL Clusters at Once as a story · 19 points
HN discussionAnd "Premature Flexibilization Is The Root of Whatever Evil Is Left": http://product.hubspot.com/blog/bid/7271/premature-flexibili...
Comment linking /blog/bid/7271/premature-flexibilization-is-the-root-of-whatever-evil-is-left
on “The Fallacy of Premature Optimization (2009)”Submitted Inheriting Code: Why You Should Keep Code Teardowns to Yourself as a story · 18 points
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