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obfuscurity. is a personal blog at obfuscurity.com about systems and programming. Since 2011, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 22 times, most often “Everybody Loves Graphite”. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.

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22mentions?
11HN people?
2011–2016first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 10 in 2012

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

A response by a Graphite contributor, defending the Graphite time-series database against claims in a VividCortex piece that it is falling out of favour. The blog covers monitoring and time-series tooling.

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.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Everybody Loves Graphite
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-11-06

What Hacker News says?

  1. dmourati · 2015-11-09
    Obligatory response from Graphite contributor and author Jason Dixon who is shouted out in the vividcortex intro. http://obfuscurity.com/2015/11/Everybody-Loves-Graphite Personal response: I've used Graphite, OpenTSDB, Ganglia, Cacti, and a bunch more solutions. Recently, work transitioned from OpenTSDB to a hosted solution from a startup called Wavefront. https://www.wavefront.com/ This has been a smash hit. Scale…

    Comment linking /2015/11/Everybody-Loves-Graphite

    on “Time series database Graphite seems to be falling into disfavor”
  2. craigkerstiens · 2012-06-20

    Submitted Why Big Monitoring Software Sucks as a story · 65 points

    HN discussion
  3. craigkerstiens · 2013-12-15

    Submitted Migrating Graphite from SQLite to PostgreSQL as a story · 39 points

    HN discussion
  4. obfuscurity_ · 2013-06-26

    Submitted Are We Ready to Kill Thresholds? as a story · 26 points

    HN discussion
  5. mgorsuch · 2012-05-07

    Submitted The Story Behind Tasseo as a story · 26 points

    HN discussion
  6. craigkerstiens · 2012-04-10

    Submitted Aggregating events in Graphite over time as a story · 17 points

    HN discussion
  7. obfuscurity_ · 2012-03-21

    Submitted On Being a (OAuth) Product as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  8. dhendo · 2015-10-28

    Submitted Graphite 0.9.14: the Phoenix Release as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  9. craigkerstiens · 2012-07-23

    Submitted Trending your Github commits in graphite as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  10. obfuscurity_ · 2012-06-29

    Submitted Velocity 2012 Postmortem as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  11. ipmb · 2015-11-09

    Submitted Everybody Loves Graphite as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  12. obfuscurity_ · 2013-11-11

    Submitted My Impressions of InfluxDB as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  13. obfuscurity_ · 2012-07-10

    Submitted Introducing Descartes, a new Graphite dashboard as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. leinback · 2012-05-31

    Submitted A Foolishly Sensible Proposal for Graphite as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. craigkerstiens · 2012-04-14

    Submitted Graphite Script for Hubot as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. craigkerstiens · 2011-11-30

    Submitted Sequel Migrations on Heroku as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. woodsaj · 2016-09-14

    Submitted Benchmarking Graphite on NVMe as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  18. obfuscurity_ · 2015-11-06

    Submitted Everybody Loves Graphite as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  19. gk1 · 2014-10-15

    Submitted Graphite Tip: A better way to store events as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  20. dashboarddude · 2013-12-21

    Submitted Obfuscurity's review of Play Fair App (a hosted Graphite solution) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  21. craigkerstiens · 2012-07-09

    Submitted Collection of D3 Tutorials as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  22. mattyb · 2011-07-08

    Submitted Monitoring Sucks. Do Something About It. as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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