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Sander Knape
Personal blog · sanderknape.comprogrammingsystemsai
Sander Knape's personal blog at sanderknape.com covers programming, systems and ai. Since 2017, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 31 times, most often “The Hidden Challenges of Serverless”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-07, 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 Sander Knape's posts on building static websites on S3 and CloudFront with Hugo and on comparing AWS SAM with the Serverless Framework for serverless deployments.
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.
I’m a Staff Platform Engineer at Stack Overflow, where I work on developer experience and help engineers get from idea to impact faster. I spend a lot of time thinking about platform engineering, AI, engineering effectiveness, and how to make complex systems easier to work with. This blog is where I
Most-linked posts?
- The Hidden Challenges of Serverless2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-08-02
- Building serverless applications with the AWS CDK – and testing them locally2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-05-31
- Secret management design decisions: theory plus an example2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-03-11
- Two years with CloudFormation: lessons learned2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-08-09
- Deploy your pull requests with GitHub Actions and GitHub Deployments2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-05-06
What Hacker News says?
I see you are using Hugo 0.62.1 https://sanderknape.com FYI starting with 0.63.0 the speed has about doubled: https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/releases/tag/v0.63.0
Comment linking /
on “Building a static serverless website using S3 and CloudFront”Submitted Building a static serverless website using S3 and CloudFront as a story · 257 points
HN discussionIndeed, SAM and serverless framework serve the same overall purpose. It's mostly a matter of whether you prefer CloudFormation (SAM) or serverless' configuration format. I have mostly used serverless, but there are some posts out there comparing the two in detail, such as: https://sanderknape.com/2018/02/comparing-aws-sam-with-serve...
Comment linking /2018/02/comparing-aws-sam-with-serverless-framework/
on “Jets: Ruby Serverless Framework”Submitted Why it's great to write blog posts as a story · 187 points
HN discussionSubmitted Two years with CloudFormation: lessons learned as a story · 107 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to manage any kind of secret with AWS Secrets Manager as a story · 96 points
HN discussionSubmitted Secret management design decisions: theory plus an example as a story · 53 points
HN discussionSubmitted Deploy your pull requests with GitHub Actions and GitHub Deployments as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Blocking account-wide creation of public S3 buckets through CloudFormation as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted CloudFormation StackSets: automated cross-account/region deployments as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Engineering Is Moving Up the Stack as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Serverless Payment Workflow Using AWS Lambda and the AWS CDK as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using Amazon Cognito JWTs to Authenticate with an Amazon HTTP API as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted From toil to self-service: automate what matters as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Deploy your pull requests with GitHub Actions and GitHub Deployments as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Running self-hosted GitHub Actions runners in your Kubernetes cluster as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building serverless applications with the AWS CDK – and testing them locally as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to easily test your AWS IAM credentials locally as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Hidden Challenges of Serverless as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The hidden challenges of Serverless: from VM to function as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Secret management design decisions: theory plus an example – Sander Knape as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Creating a Serverless API Using AWS API Gateway and DynamoDB as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Terraform 'data source will be read during apply' – What is it and how to fix as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Go Crazy with GitHub Actions as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nuances around centralized platform teams as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using Amazon Cognito JWT Tokens to Authenticate with an Amazon HTTP API as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Five ways to enable developer autonomy in AWS as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building serverless applications with the AWS CDK – and testing them locally as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Two years with CloudFormation: lessons learned as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A custom CloudFormation resource example for CodeDeploy as a story · 1 points
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