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Roland Bouman
Personal blog · rpbouman.blogspot.comdataprogramming
Roland Bouman's personal blog at rpbouman.blogspot.com covers data and programming. Since 2008, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-06, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its Node.js memory-leak guide and for MySQL tuning. One commenter describes a V8 string-retention leak, and another lists the blog among MySQL tuning blogs.
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.
Progamming, databases, Business Intelligence, MySQL, JavaScript, SQL SAP HANA
What Hacker News says?
A "leak" we found as this: Our code parsed a large HTML-like string read from a file and extracted a small portion. Then we created an array with those extracted strings (many files). The original large HTML-like string was no longer needed. The problem: The (V8) runtime never created a new (very small) string and copied the section. Instead, it kept the huge strings around. So while we needed only 64 bytes from man…
Comment linking /2018/03/a-tale-of-javascript-memory-leak.html
on “A Practical Guide to Memory Leaks in Node.js”Submitted Extracting timestamp and MAC address from UUIDs as a story · 34 points
HN discussionblogs that focus on mySQL tuning, database design, and linux-tuning aspects, and reward careful reading http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/ http://dammit.lt/stream/mysql/ http://ebergen.net/wordpress/ http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/ http://rpbouman.blogspot.com/
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on “10 MySQL variables that you should monitor”Submitted Maturity of Open Source ETL / Why do people fail to do their homework? as a story · 2 points
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