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Siddharth Sharma

Personal blog · svs.io/postprogrammingweb

Siddharth Sharma's personal blog at svs.io covers programming and web. Since 2012, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “Why I Migrated Away From MongoDB”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-10-08, and you can follow it by feed.

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17mentions?
3HN people?
2012–2016first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 9 in 2012

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

Why HN links it

Linked in the InfiniDB shutdown thread as a source on MongoDB's scalability and reliability problems. The commenter cites it alongside other critiques and asks readers about MongoDB use at scale.

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.

Personal website of Siddharth Sharma, technologist and writer.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Why I Migrated Away From MongoDB
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-09-17

What Hacker News says?

  1. swartkrans · 2014-09-22
    Honest question, is MongoDB actually scalable? I keep reading about how it is not for serious business[1][2][3][4]. Who is using Mongo at scale and what sort of loads are they seeing and are the level of problems on par with other solutions? As a developer I like Mongo's API, but I would worry about using it given what has been written about it. [1] http://aphyr.com/posts/284-call-me-maybe-mongodb [2] http://svs.io/…

    Comment linking /post/31724990463/why-i-migrated-away-from-mongodb

    on “InfiniDB goes out of business”
  2. svs · 2012-09-17

    Submitted Why I Migrated Away From MongoDB as a story · 203 points

    HN discussion
  3. svs · 2016-03-11
    Yes, all of these are reasons why gold got started. A gold backed system is perhaps not even possible anymore let alone desirable. Please see http://svs.io/post/69301254342/bitcoin-fud There are only two things we've used as money (metals and state power)

    Comment linking /post/69301254342/bitcoin-fud

    on “Why Gold?”
  4. svs · 2013-08-29

    Submitted Roll your own Ruby Web Framework in Half an Hour as a story · 63 points

    HN discussion
  5. svs · 2013-12-07

    Submitted Bitcoin FUD as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  6. adrianmsmith · 2015-11-06

    Submitted Why I Migrated Away from MongoDB as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  7. svs · 2014-10-06

    Submitted Information Driven Architectures as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  8. svs · 2012-12-26

    Submitted Breaking up Fat Models with Delegation as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. svs · 2012-12-16

    Submitted Objects Everywhere - Param Objects in Rails as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. svs · 2012-08-28

    Submitted Using State Machines to Keep Your Controllers Happy as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. svs · 2013-12-10

    Submitted Monocultures as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. svs · 2013-01-15

    Submitted Extreme Decoupling FTW as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  13. svs · 2012-10-11

    Submitted Readable Specs == Business Value as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  14. svs · 2012-10-05

    Submitted Painless Controller Testing in Rails as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  15. svs · 2012-09-12

    Submitted Clarity over Brevity in Method Calls as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  16. svs · 2012-07-13

    Submitted A peek into Test Driven Design as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  17. svs · 2012-06-23

    Submitted On Reading Source Code as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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