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Shutterstock Tech Blog is the company blog at bits.shutterstock.com, writing about programming and web. Since 2011, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 38 times, most often “Faster TCP Slow Starts”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.

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38mentions?
15HN people?
2011–2015first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 11 in 2011

Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this Shutterstock engineering blog for posts on a TCP slow-start fix without a kernel patch and on Rickshaw, an interactive time-series graphing toolkit. Comments only cite or link the posts.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

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Most-linked posts?

  1. Faster TCP Slow Starts
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-10-14
  2. Why Perl?
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-10-12
  3. Introducing Lil Brother: Open Source Client-Side Event Tracking
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-09-14
  4. Introducing Rickshaw: Interactive time series graphs in JavaScript
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-12-09
  5. Mustache vs Swig Templating Shootout
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-03-08
  6. The importance of "noatime"
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-06-06

What Hacker News says?

  1. If you need to analyze things that live in your database (users, transactions, actions on your site), I recommend RJMetrics. I work for Shutterstock, a company that is now large enough to have gone through several phases of data maturity (we recently became a publicly traded company, which requires a high standard of data integrity and auditability). We use a variety of tools to look at data: Google Analytics for tr…

    Comment linking /?p=277

    on “Ask HN: What's your startup's analytics setup?”
  2. Submitted Stop Buying Load Balancers and Start Controlling Your Traffic Flow with Software as a story · 166 points

    HN discussion
  3. Thanks for taking a look! There's a little more info in our recent blog post about this too: http://bits.shutterstock.com/?p=103 In particular, here's an example where you can switch between stacked, percentage, and line views; toggle on and off each data series; re-order the stack with drag-and-drop; zoom in to a time slice; add smoothing; add annotations, etc: http://shutterstock.github.com/rickshaw/examples/exten…

    Comment linking /?p=103

    on “Rickshaw is a JavaScript toolkit for creating interactive time series graphs”
  4. Submitted Why Perl? as a story · 55 points

    HN discussion
  5. cached copy of the post article (seems down now) http://google.com/search?q=cache:http://blog.habets.pp.se/20... A little history for those wondering what this is about http://blog.benstrong.com/2010/11/slow-start-follow-up.html http://blog.benstrong.com/2010/11/google-and-microsoft-cheat... http://lwn.net/Articles/427104/ http://bits.shutterstock.com/?p=74 http://research.google.com/pubs/pub36640.html https://docs.…

    Comment linking /?p=74

    on “Fix TCP slow-start without a kernel patch (for faster page load times)”
  6. Submitted How We Built a Cutting-Edge Color Search App as a story · 43 points

    HN discussion
  7. Yes, tons of credit due there. In my post ( http://bits.shutterstock.com/?p=74 ) I linked to Jonathan Corbet's coverage ( http://lwn.net/Articles/427104/ ) of the topic on LWN, which is also a good jumping-off point for reading on the topic.

    Comment linking /?p=74

    on “Proggit Thread on Faster TCP Slow Starts”
  8. Submitted The Psychology of Engineers: a talk on Introversion/Extroversion and Flow as a story · 34 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Perl: When DWIM Doesn't as a story · 27 points

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  10. Submitted Keeping the Startup Spirit Alive in a Growing Company as a story · 24 points

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  11. Submitted SQL Shells, Rebooted as a story · 11 points

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  12. Submitted Introducing Rickshaw: Interactive time series graphs in JavaScript as a story · 8 points

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  13. Submitted Faster TCP Slow Starts as a story · 8 points

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  14. Submitted Critical Skills You Won’t Learn in School as a story · 7 points

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  15. Submitted Building your own network automation as a story · 5 points

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  16. Submitted Interview with a CodeRage Finalist: Dave K and Projector as a story · 5 points

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  17. Submitted Test All the (Network) Things as a story · 5 points

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  18. Submitted Introducing Lil Brother: Open Source Client-Side Event Tracking as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted Feersum in the Wild: Perl’s Evented Web Server as a story · 5 points

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  20. Submitted Why Perl? as a story · 5 points

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  21. Submitted Monitoring High Scale Search at a Glance as a story · 4 points

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  22. Submitted Solr as an Analytics Platform as a story · 4 points

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  23. Submitted Why I DON’T Care About Statistical Significance as a story · 4 points

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  24. Submitted Mustache vs Swig Templating Shootout as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  25. Submitted Stop Using One Language as a story · 3 points

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  26. Submitted If It’s Not on Prod, It Doesn’t Count: The Value of Frequent Releases as a story · 3 points

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  27. Submitted The importance of "noatime" as a story · 3 points

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  28. Submitted Our Developer Ethos as a story · 3 points

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  29. Submitted When a Space Is Not Just a Space as a story · 2 points

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  30. Submitted Simplifying the build, test, and run cycle with Rock as a story · 2 points

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