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Sören Bleikertz

Personal blog · openfoo.org/blog · on HN as sorensystemsprogramming

Sören Bleikertz's personal blog at openfoo.org covers systems and programming. Since 2010, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “How to run Redis natively on Xen”. It has a working feed you can follow.

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5mentions?
3HN people?
2010–2011first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2011

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog as a source on the underlying architecture of Amazon EBS and EC2, and on running Redis natively on Xen. The commenters cite it as background and do not judge its writing.

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.

The author on HN?

soren · 217 karma · member since 2007

openfoo.org

From their public HN profile, which links to this site.

Most-linked posts?

  1. How to run Redis natively on Xen
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-12-11
  2. On Amazon EC2's Underlying Architecture
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-02-01

What Hacker News says?

  1. Not EC2, but is this what you are thinking about?… http://openfoo.org/blog/redis-native-xen.html

    Comment linking /blog/redis-native-xen.html

    on “BareMetal is a 64-bit OS for x86-64 based computers”
  2. Submitted Deploy Websites on Amazon S3 using Jekyll and Git as a story · 78 points

    HN discussion
  3. > It’s commonly believed that EBS is built on DRBD with a dose of S3-derived replication logic. Actually, it was discovered some time ago ( http://openfoo.org/blog/amazon_ec2_underlying_architecture.h... ) that EBS probably used Red Hat's open-source GNDB: http://sourceware.org/cluster/gnbd/

    Comment linking /blog/amazon_ec2_underlying_architecture.html

    on “Magical Block Store: Why EBS Can't Work”
  4. Submitted On Amazon EC2's Underlying Architecture as a story · 67 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted How to run Redis natively on Xen as a story · 58 points

    HN discussion

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