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Michael Brunton-Spall

Personal blog · brunton-spall.co.ukprogrammingsystems

Michael Brunton-Spall's personal blog at brunton-spall.co.uk covers programming and systems. Since 2010, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Database migrations done right (2014)”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.

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6mentions?
4HN people?
2010–2016first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2014

The thoughts and musings of MBS

Most-linked posts?

  1. Database migrations done right (2014)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-05-06

What Hacker News says?

  1. ichilton · 2012-03-13

    Submitted What is DevOps not? as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  2. bruntonspall · 2014-05-23

    Submitted What are microservices, and why are they important as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  3. dfj225 · 2013-06-07

    Submitted Prism and NSA Spying: why I don’t (entirely) believe it. as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  4. networked · 2016-11-15

    Submitted Database migrations done right (2014) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. bruntonspall · 2014-05-06

    Submitted Database migrations and application deploys as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  6. bruntonspall · 2010-04-19

    Submitted An introduction to using twitter anywhere as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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