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Remind Engineering

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Remind Engineering is the company blog at engineering.remind.com, writing about programming and data. Since 2015, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “Introducing Empire: A Self-Hosted PaaS Built on Docker and Amazon ECS”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.

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14mentions?
11HN people?
2015–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2015

Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Remind's engineering blog for its introducing-Empire post, which one commenter compares with Convox. Most comments are Remind job listings and say nothing about the writing.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 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?

  1. Introducing Empire: A Self-Hosted PaaS Built on Docker and Amazon ECS
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-06-16
  2. Transitive Closure in PostgreSQL
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-12-12

What Hacker News says?

  1. Remind | Android Engineer, Data Engineer, Data Scientist, Demand Generation Manager, Implementation Manager, Solutions Architect | San Francisco or remote (some positions) | https://www.remind.com/careers Remind helps teachers reach students and parents where they are: their phones. We're one of the fastest-growing companies in education technology, but we have our sights set on something bigger. Our mission is to g…

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2017)”
  2. Submitted Introducing Empire: A Self-Hosted PaaS Built on Docker and Amazon ECS as a story · 213 points

    HN discussion
  3. Remind | Android Engineer, Data Engineer, Data Scientist, Demand Generation Manager, Implementation Manager, Solutions Architect | San Francisco or remote (some positions) | https://www.remind.com/careers Remind helps teachers reach students and parents where they are: their phones. We're one of the fastest-growing companies in education technology, but we have our sights set on something bigger. Our mission is to g…

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2017)”
  4. Submitted Should you use interface builder? as a story · 53 points

    HN discussion
  5. Remind | Engineers | SF | Full-time | Remote Remind ( https://www.remind.com/careers ) is looking for several roles as seek to transform the relationship between teachers, families, and schools in our quest to give each student a chance to succeed in school. We need * backend engineers to do distributed systems work on our messaging infrastructure (go, ruby, sql, nosql, sync, async) as we support our 23M active user…

    Comment linking /introducing-empire/

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2017)”
  6. Submitted Announcing Share on Remind as a story · 10 points

    HN discussion
  7. Remind | Android Engineer, Data Scientist | San Francisco or remote | https://www.remind.com/careers Remind helps teachers reach students and parents where they are: their phones. We’re one of the fastest-growing companies in education technology, but we have our sights set on something bigger. Our mission is to give every student an opportunity to succeed, and we’re heading into this school year with 23MM active us…

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2017)”
  8. Submitted Write Android code that scales, with MVP as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  9. Remind | Senior Engineers and Engineering Leaders | San Francisco | REMOTE 2020 was a memorable year for Remind. With Zoom and Google we served as the backbone of the US education system as schools pivoted quickly to online learning. I'll never forget the early morning of Friday 13 Mar 2020 when our scale went through the roof and the team worked over the next 2 months to harden and improve our systems during this r…

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    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2021)”
  10. Submitted Customer support makes me a better engineer as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  11. How does Convox compare to Empire? I see a bunch of similarities (good use of AWS features in particular), and they both look pretty great. (Empire: https://github.com/remind101/empire , http://engineering.remind.com/introducing-empire/ )

    Comment linking /introducing-empire/

    on “Convox – Launch a Private Cloud in Minutes”
  12. Submitted Transitive Closure in PostgreSQL as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Transitive Closure in PostgreSQL as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Improving Amazon Redshift Performance with Intermix as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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