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OpenResty Official Blog
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OpenResty Official Blog is the company blog at blog.openresty.com, writing about programming and systems. Since 2021, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Ylang: Universal Language for eBPF, Stap+, GDB”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for posts on Ylang, a universal language for eBPF, SystemTap, GDB and similar tracing tools, and its Raku-based compiler. Comments cite the project rather than judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Ylang: Universal Language for eBPF, Stap+, GDB2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-02-22
What Hacker News says?
Thanks for pointing this out. To be frank, I would not have expected to see someone highly competent attempting to build a core product with Raku, let alone what looks to be an not entirely trivial compiler. I didn't realize that in addition to being a luajit expert agentzh is also a long-time perl hacker. Amusingly though he found it necessary to write his own proprietary implementation of (a "dialect" of?) Raku, c…
Comment linking /en/ylang-intro-part4/
on “Ylang: Universal language for eBPF, Stap+, GDB, and more”Submitted Ylang: Universal language for eBPF, Stap+, GDB, and more as a story · 77 points
HN discussionMake use of dynamic tracing and write/customize relevant to needs. Potential examples: https://twitter.com/freebsdfrau/status/1238541870612926465 modify to just focus on cron related stuff. https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2016-02-01/linux-wakeup-of... Programming approaches: ebpf : https://ebpf.io/projects/ Dtrace : https://www.brendangregg.com/dtrace.html Ylang : https://blog.openresty.com/en/ylang-intro-part1/ P…
Comment linking /en/ylang-intro-part1/
on “Ask HN: How to monitor periodic short-lived processes?”Submitted Ylang: Universal Language for eBPF, Stap+, GDB as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSubmitted Automatic Analysis Reports in OpenResty XRay as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted We generate our tutorial videos from screenplay files as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Deconstructing the LuaJIT Pseudo Memory Leak as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How CPU time is spent inside Rust's Sled library as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How CPU time is spent inside Rust's Sled library as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Optimize Memory Fragmentation Due to Nginx Configuration as a story · 1 points
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