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Oleksiy Kovyrin
Personal blog · kovyrin.net · on HN as kovyrinprogrammingsystems
Oleksiy Kovyrin's personal blog at kovyrin.net covers programming and systems. Since 2009, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “Softlayer Cloud: An operations guy's rant about really bad service”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-04, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Oleksiy Kovyrin's posts on nginx X-Accel-Redirect, secure links for static files, epoll tutorials, and a cautionary account of a cloud host. They are cited as references for web server and hosting techniques.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 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?
- Softlayer Cloud: An operations guy's rant about really bad service2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-05-02
What Hacker News says?
No, I really do not think going to EC2 could be beneficial in any way in terms of improving resiliency compared to Softlayer. SL allows you to control which VLANs your box will end up on. VLANs could be treated as racks (since they do not allocate more than one VLAN per rack). Then you have multiple DCs in one region (e.g. DAL01, DAL05, DAL07, etc) and you have many different regions (DAL, SEA, WAS, AMS, etc). I'd b…
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on “How and Why Swiftype Moved from EC2 to Real Hardware”Submitted Softlayer Cloud: An operations guy's rant about really bad service as a story · 115 points
HN discussionCheck out "The C10K Problem" ( http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html ) for a high level discussion of some techniques for high performance servers. For basic info on Epoll: http://www.devshed.com/c/a/BrainDump/Linux-Files-and-the-Eve... epoll socket tutorial: http://kovyrin.net/2006/04/13/epoll-asynchronous-network-pro... Or kqueue if your OS supports it: http://wiki.netbsd.org/tutorials/kqueue_tutorial/ Lower level detail…
Comment linking /2006/04/13/epoll-asynchronous-network-programming/
on “Beej's Guide to Network Programming”Submitted Advanced Squid Caching in Scribd: Logged In Users and Complex URLs Handling as a story · 19 points
HN discussionYou should probably not use softlayer cloud; a very bright ops guy at scribd had a horrific time doing so. http://kovyrin.net/2011/05/02/cloudlayer-bad-story/
Comment linking /2011/05/02/cloudlayer-bad-story/
on “Why I Dislike EC2”Submitted Resources for Technical Operations Engineers as a story · 11 points
HN discussionNice work! I see it supports X-Accel-Redirect. Do you think it could proxy music from a remote HTTP server, i.e., an S3 bucket? http://kovyrin.net/2010/07/24/nginx-fu-x-accel-redirect-remo...
Comment linking /2010/07/24/nginx-fu-x-accel-redirect-remote/
on “Serve Your Music Collection Using HTML5, Backbone, and Flask”Submitted Rails Can Scale as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSince there is no patch available for the latest Ruby Enterprise Edition, we've made a quick port of the official ruby solution: http://kovyrin.net/2011/12/29/ree-hash-collision-patch/
Comment linking /2011/12/29/ree-hash-collision-patch/
on “Multiple programming languages vulnerable to DoS via hash algorithm collision”Submitted A Reliable Workflow for Building with AI Agents Using PRDs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionnginx has a feature that's perfect for this kind of thing: x-accel-redirect (also available in other web servers): http://kovyrin.net/2006/11/01/nginx-x-accel-redirect-php-rai... The nginx team added another feature that's even more efficient for this recently (doesn't require a dynamic piece of code execution for each hit) - a module that creates "secure links" for protecting static resources: http://wiki.nginx.org…
Comment linking /2006/11/01/nginx-x-accel-redirect-php-rails/
on “How to harvest Facebook profiles from emails without logging in”Submitted From Autocomplete to Apprentice: Training AI to Work in Our Codebase as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted MySQL Monitoring with Cacti using 1-minute resolution as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Enabling IPv6 Support in nginx as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted DB Charmer – ActiveRecord Connection Magic Plugin as a story · 1 points
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