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OCTO Talks !
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OCTO Talks ! is the company blog at blog.octo.com, writing about programming and systems. Since 2015, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “Hexagonal Architecture”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link OCTO Talks posts on hexagonal architecture, Percolator transaction architecture and protocol buffers benchmarks. The comments cite these posts as support or further reading and do not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Le blog d'OCTO Technology, cabinet de conseil et de réalisation IT
Most-linked posts?
- Hexagonal Architecture3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-10-22
What Hacker News says?
Then use compression. gzipped json is highly efficient over the wire. https://blog.octo.com/en/protocol-buffers-benchmark-and-mobi... The primary purpose of binary data formats is that they can be parsed quickly and some even allow direct access without a parsing step.
Comment linking /en/protocol-buffers-benchmark-and-mobile/
on “JavaScript is Good, Actually”Submitted WebAssembly, an executable format for the web as a story · 128 points
HN discussionI am currently a big fan of the hexagonal architecture which is pretty close to what you describe as far as layering. https://blog.octo.com/en/hexagonal-architecture-three-princi... https://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2012/08/13/the-clean-a... I also advocate for packaging by feature rather than layer (each feature defines its layers) https://hackernoon.com/package-by-features-not-layers-2d076d...
Comment linking /en/hexagonal-architecture-three-principles-and-an-implementation-example/
on “Ask HN: Which are the best resources to learn software architecture?”Submitted How to design a REST API as a story · 7 points
HN discussionFor further reading, Dan Abadi's post at http://dbmsmusings.blogspot.com/2018/09/newsql-database-syst... addresses the Spanner issues more directly. I don't think there's a great reference for the Percolator transaction architecture specifically, but there is a brief description here: https://blog.octo.com/en/my-reading-of-percolator-architectu... One thing I learned recently is that FoundationDB is essentially the…
Comment linking /en/my-reading-of-percolator-architecture-a-google-search-engine-component/
on “A history of the distributed transactional database”Submitted Hexagonal Architecture as a story · 3 points
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