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safts
Personal blog · iamsafts.comprogrammingsystems
safts is a personal blog at iamsafts.com about programming and systems. Since 2021, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Debugging random slow writes in PostgreSQL”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this post on the pitfalls of GIN indexes in Postgres full-text search. One commenter calls it a great read and says they experienced the problem it describes.
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.
A blog that includes technical articles for programmers, Agile enthusiasts and people interested in tech, management & startups
Most-linked posts?
- Debugging random slow writes in PostgreSQL5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2021-04-05
What Hacker News says?
Great read on the pitfalls of GIN indexes: https://iamsafts.com/posts/postgres-gin-performance/ (I'm not the author, but this did happen to me.)
Comment linking /posts/postgres-gin-performance/
on “Postgres Full-Text Search: A search engine in a database”Submitted Debugging random slow writes in PostgreSQL as a story · 136 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why I'm building a Home Lab with K8s on Raspberry Pis as a story · 43 points
HN discussionSubmitted Debugging random slow writes in PostgreSQL as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kubernetes on Raspberry: Bootstrapping the Raspberry Pis as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Debugging slow write performance in PostgreSQL (GiN indexes) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Debugging random slow writes with GIN indexes in PostgreSQL as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Debugging random slow writes with GIN indexes in PostgreSQL as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted [raspberrypi-k8s] Part 1: Hardware as a story · 1 points
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