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RJ Zaworski

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RJ Zaworski's personal blog at rjzaworski.com covers programming and career. Since 2011, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.

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Links on Hacker News per year · peak 8 in 2019

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked for its seven commandments for event-driven architectures. One commenter questioned the advice to send only the amount withdrawn in an event rather than the new balance too.

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.

Notes on software development and process.

What Hacker News says?

  1. xtagon · 2019-03-16
    The section on "Minimize state in-flight" [1] has an example of an event with both an amount withdrawn and the new balance, and the author recommends sending only the amount instead. Wouldn't it be useful to send both, since if the expected balance does not match up when the event gets processed, that must mean something was processed out of order? [1]: https://rjzaworski.com/2019/03/7-commandments-for-event-driv...

    Comment linking /2019/03/7-commandments-for-event-driven-architecture

    on “Seven Commandments for Event-Driven Architectures”
  2. rjzaworski · 2019-04-13

    Submitted Web Developer's Guide to DNS as a story · 324 points

    HN discussion
  3. n1bble · 2019-03-16

    Submitted Seven Commandments for Event-Driven Architectures as a story · 142 points

    HN discussion
  4. rjzaworski · 2019-12-07

    Submitted Principles of High-Value Software Testing as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. n1bble · 2019-04-27

    Submitted Damage Control in Distributed Systems as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  6. rjzaworski · 2023-10-21

    Submitted The AI Bubble Is for Real as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. peterramsing · 2016-07-15

    Submitted How Things Get Done as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. oroundit · 2011-10-25

    Submitted Geous.js as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. rjzaworski · 2019-05-18

    Submitted Making the case for TypeScript: a letter for managers as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. n1bble · 2019-05-15

    Submitted Cheatsheet: Analyzing Data from the Unix Command Line as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. rjzaworski · 2019-05-11

    Submitted The Trouble with On-Demand as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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