Work in progress: 181,232 of 181,233 sites checked so far, more every week · updated 2 Nov 2026Missing a blog? Tell us

Top all-time · #17482

S

Shivang Sarawagi

Personal blog · shivangsnewsletter.comsystemsprogramming

Shivang Sarawagi writes Web Scale (Systems Architecture & Systems Programming), a personal blog at shivangsnewsletter.com about systems and programming. Since 2024, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Why doesn't Cloudflare use containers in their infrastructure?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2024-11-09, and you can follow it by feed.

Visit the blog
8mentions?
4HN people?
2024–2024first – last linked?

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link this tech newsletter's post on why Cloudflare makes the technology choices it does for Workers, as background for a discussion of Cloudflare's platform.

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.

Insightful discussions on web-scale distributed systems and backend engineering in general.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Why doesn't Cloudflare use containers in their infrastructure?
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-11-02
  2. How Unikraft Cloud reduces serverless cold starts with unikernels, microVMs
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-11-09

What Hacker News says?

  1. This article give some reasons for Cloudflare workers: https://shivangsnewsletter.com/p/why-doesnt-cloudflare-use-c...

    Comment linking /p/why-doesnt-cloudflare-use-containers

    on “Memory64”
  2. Submitted Why doesn't Cloudflare use containers in their infrastructure? as a story · 18 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted How Unikraft Cloud reduces serverless cold starts with unikernels, microVMs as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Implementing a Single-Threaded Blocking Bare Bones TCP/IP Server as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Unikraft Cloud reduces serverless cold starts to milliseconds with unikernel as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted How Shopify implemented read consistency across their database replicas as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Why doesn't Cloudflare use containers in their Workers platform infrastructure? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Shopify Implemented Read Consistency Across Database Replicas for Consistent UX as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

Search all of HN for shivangsnewsletter.com