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Outschool Engineering Blog
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Outschool Engineering Blog is the company blog at engineering.outschool.com, writing about programming and career. Since 2021, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Agonizing over TypeScript Compilation Times”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-05, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in an HN thread on queueing theory. The one comment applies simple queuing models, such as M/D/1, to a team's deployment queue and does not judge the post's writing.
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?
- Agonizing over TypeScript Compilation Times2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-08-20
What Hacker News says?
As a regular programmer, I got really into queuing theory thinking I was going to learn secrets of performance tuning, then was slightly disappointed. But it turns out the simple parts of it go a long way! Eg at work we have a single deployment queue for a monorepo. At first approx this is an MD1 queue (deploy job takes roughly the same amount of time every time, though arrivals are actually way spikier than poisson…
Comment linking /posts/doubling-deploys-gitlab-merge-trains/
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