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Michael Gasch

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Michael Gasch's personal blog at mgasch.com covers programming and systems. Since 2018, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Events, the DNA of Kubernetes [Updated]”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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7HN people?
2018–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2021

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Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog's post on scratch builds, Docker images made from a single executable binary with no full distro. One commenter cites it to correct the claim that everything in Docker is regular Linux.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Personal Blog of Michael Gasch

Most-linked posts?

  1. Events, the DNA of Kubernetes [Updated]
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-12-05
  2. What I learned from Erlang about resiliency in systems design (2019)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-07-09

What Hacker News says?

  1. "Everything in Docker is regular Linux" is a bit of a misleading statement IMO. You aren't required to pull an entire big distro like Ubuntu and install deps from a package manager. Are you familiar with scratch builds? You can create an image that is basically just a single executable binary with a few mounts handled for you behind the scenes so that chroot works. https://www.mgasch.com/post/scratch/ Typically a mi…

    Comment linking /post/scratch/

    on “Bocker – Docker implemented in around 100 lines of Bash (2015)”
  2. Submitted What I learned from Erlang about resiliency in systems design (2019) as a story · 142 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Git rebase, squash oh my as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Events, the DNA of Kubernetes [Updated] as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted What I learned from Erlang about Resiliency in Systems Design (2019) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Onwards to the Core: Etcd as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Events, the DNA of Kubernetes as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted A response to “Did we market Knative wrong?” as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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