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Roberto Vitillo
Personal blog · robertovitillo.comsystemsdata
Roberto Vitillo writes Roberto's blog, a personal blog at robertovitillo.com about systems and data. Since 2016, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 32 times, most often “Don't trust default timeouts”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Roberto's blog
Most-linked posts?
- Don't trust default timeouts3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-05-08
- What every developer should know about database consistency3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-08-07
- Differential Privacy for Dummies (2016)2 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2016-07-29
- Back of the envelope estimation hacks2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-05-20
- An Overview of Mozilla’s Data Pipeline2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-01-24
- Why you should measure tail latencies2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-06-03
What Hacker News says?
Submitted What developers should know about TCP as a story · 359 points
HN discussionSubmitted Back of the envelope estimation hacks as a story · 234 points
HN discussionSubmitted Don't trust default timeouts as a story · 139 points
HN discussionSubmitted Differential Privacy for Dummies (2016) as a story · 111 points
HN discussionSubmitted The costs of microservices (2020) as a story · 93 points
HN discussionSubmitted Back of the Envelope Estimation Hacks as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Distributed Systems Fail as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Don't Trust Default Timeouts as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Leader Election Best Practices as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What every developer should know about consistency as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Overview of Mozilla’s Data Pipeline as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What every developer should know about database consistency (2020) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Differential Privacy for Dummies (2016) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Differential Privacy for Dummies (2016) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Scalability Patterns of Distributed Systems as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Conduct a System Design Interview as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What every developer should know about database consistency as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why you should measure tail latencies as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Don't Trust Default Timeouts as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Don't Trust Default Timeouts as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Overview of Mozilla’s Data Pipeline as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Differential Privacy for Dummies as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What every developer should know about database consistency as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Differential Privacy for Dummies (2016) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Understanding Distributed Systems 1.1 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What every developer should know about database consistency as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Measure Tail Latencies as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Back of the envelope estimation hacks as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bandwidth and latency are not independent as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Differential Privacy for Dummies (2016) as a story · 1 points
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