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Stackify
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Stackify is the company blog at stackify.com, writing about programming and systems. Since 2012, 42 different Hacker News readers have linked it 158 times, most often “Distributed Method Mutexting -How to Prevent Duplicate Event Processing at Scale”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-03-18, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (13) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Stackify's articles on logging, OOP, programming language popularity, ASP.NET Kestrel and GDPR. HN commenters link them as references; none of the comments judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 13 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Stackify offers fully integrated application performance monitoring tools with errors and logs. Monitor, detect and resolve your issues today.
Most-linked posts?
- /popular-programming-languages-2018/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-12-28
- Distributed Method Mutexting -How to Prevent Duplicate Event Processing at Scale2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-02-26
- Java Logging Frameworks: log4j vs. logback vs. log4j22 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-11-02
- Real User Monitoring (RUM) vs. Synthetic Monitoring Comparison2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-09-05
- C# Threading and Multithreading: A Guide with Examples2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-09-05
- Why .NET Core Made C# Your Next Programming Language to Learn2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-03-29
- /premature-optimization-evil/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-01-27
- REST API Tutorial2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-09-06
- Explore the new features and functionality released in Java 102 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-08-21
- Is Optional Only Smoke and Mirrors: A Java Misconception Resolved2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-01-18
What Hacker News says?
Using only files for logging is the last thing I would do in 2018. I use Serilog for structured logging. Depending on the log destination, your logs are either stored in an RDMS (I wouldn’t recommend it) or created as JSON with name value pairs that can be sent directly to a JSON data store like ElasticSearch or Mongo where you can do adhoc queries. https://stackify.com/what-is-structured-logging-and-why-deve...
Comment linking /what-is-structured-logging-and-why-developers-need-it/
on “Goodbye Microservices: From 100s of problem children to 1 superstar”Submitted Lessons Learned while Converting from ASP.NET to .NET Core as a story · 154 points
HN discussiondon't think so - https://stackify.com/oop-concept-polymorphism/
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on “Case against OOP is understated, not overstated (2020)”Submitted Ways to Tail a Log File on Windows and Linux as a story · 28 points
HN discussionFound it here: https://stackify.com/whats-new-in-java-10/ ——— start quote ——— This feature has been a long time coming. It was suggested as far back as 2001, and was closed at that time with the following comment by Gilad Bracha: Humans benefit from the redundancy of the type declaration in two ways. First, the redundant type serves as valuable documentation – readers do not have to search for the declaration of get…
Comment linking /whats-new-in-java-10/
on “Why Don't People Use Formal Methods?”Submitted 15 Lessons Learned While Converting from ASP.NET to .NET Core as a story · 13 points
HN discussionFor those interested in distributed locking with Redis and C#, check out this blog post we did which also links to a github project. We use this very heavily. Hope it helps someone. http://stackify.com/distributed-method-mutexing/
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on “How to do distributed locking”Submitted DevOps - A Valentine's Day Fairy Tale as a story · 13 points
HN discussionI always have to Google it. http://stackify.com/errors-log-management/ Dunno why it's not more discoverable. Maybe they're doing tests, because it's underpriced IMO. I've not found any service like them - maybe New Relic but that's 10x the price, last I checked. Azure has something they're pushing in their UI, too, but a brief look made it seem nontrivial to implement. Apart from that, Stackify is $15/server/mo for…
Comment linking /errors-log-management/
on “Ask HN: How do you log application events?”Submitted The Golden Rule of Programming as a story · 12 points
HN discussionOne of the top NEW tools should definitely be Prefix. It was released early in 2016 and is now used by over 10,000 .NET and java developers. It is a lightweight profiler that tells you everything your code is doing. http://stackify.com/prefix
Comment linking /prefix
on “Top Developer Tools of 2016”Submitted Why .NET Core Made C# Your Next Programming Language to Learn as a story · 10 points
HN discussionUgh, I started reading this before I realized it's the same person who thinks C#'s under the hood improvements in the last decade can be handwaved away. Yeah, 10% of Java's market share is not larger than C# https://stackify.com/popular-programming-languages-2018/ If it was, those languages would be showing up on Github's survey above C# as well, they all consider Java independently not as a combination of all JVM l…
Comment linking /popular-programming-languages-2018/
on “The Road to Valhalla”Submitted Build It, Buy It, or Open Source: The Software Dilemma as a story · 7 points
HN discussionThere are nuances with multi-threading in C#. I don't agree with OP about I/O-bound ops, I think if you're looking to green threading, you've taken a wrong approach. > [0] the Task.Runmethod offloads the provided action to the thread pool, and the await keyword yields control back to the caller until the task completes. All async code must be in an async call stack, virtual threads are 100% transparent because its t…
Comment linking /c-threading-and-multithreading-a-guide-with-examples/
on “Async2 – The .NET Runtime Async experiment concludes”Submitted PostgreSQL Performance Tuning Tutorial as a story · 5 points
HN discussion3 years ago I started a company (Stackify) with the hopes of building a better nagios. But it doesn't seem like developers really wanted it. They wanted and needed a lot more as basic server metrics didn't really tell much of a story about application health. The shift to cloud based services also makes a lot of basic monitoring tools unnecessary. Cloud based apps don't really need to monitor servers or infrastructu…
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on “Bosun – open-source monitoring and alerting system by Stack Exchange”Submitted Most Useful Command Line Tools as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI would suggest looking at Stackify. We track exceptions similar to all the other mentioned tools in this thread, but we also provide log management. Having exceptions & logs together is a lot more powerful. For example, we can show you all of your logging statements that happened before and after the error on the same web request. http://stackify.com/errors-log-management/ -Founder of Stackify
Comment linking /errors-log-management/
on “Exception Monitoring and Response”Submitted 5 Software Development Trends for 2018: Developers Needed as a story · 5 points
HN discussionPremature optimization is root of all evil - Donald Knuth https://stackify.com/premature-optimization-evil/ Don't be evil.
Comment linking /premature-optimization-evil/
on “The Pros and Cons of DRY Code”Submitted Top Java Blogs for Programmers of All Levels as a story · 4 points
HN discussionMy startup is in Bizspark and uses Azure. ( http://stackify.com ) We looked at AWS vs Azure and decided on Azure due to its PaaS capabilities. It has its quirks like anything done. Their support is fantastic. We have two local evangelist type reps, a local sales rep, and have talked to many people through their tech support. Even exchanged emails with their developers and management. I really like their SQL federati…
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on “Microsoft BizSpark includes free Azure access”Submitted New APM+ Transforming the Way .NET Developers Optimize Application Performance as a story · 4 points
HN discussionAs someone who has written an APM profiler for multi-threaded, async .NET web applications I can attest to how hard it is. There are actually a few ways to do async type methods in .NET and supporting all of them was even more fun. Begin/End older style method delegates async/await with normal tasks async/await with TaskCompletionSource (aka fake tasks) and of course completely custom ways in 3rd party libraries Cra…
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on “A better way to profile multithreaded programs”Submitted Implementing Cache Tagging with Redis as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI agree, New Relic's pricing model is almost too "enterprise". Per host pricing seems high, and difficult to scale. It's too bad, because I love everything else they offer. I'm even considering the new Insights service. I think they need to introduce a mid-tier pricing level between Free and Pro. They've got a good foothold in the market as a all-in-one solution. I've attempted to find a drop-in replacement, without…
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on “Ducksboard is joining New Relic”Submitted Container Orchestration: A Comprehensive Guide as a story · 3 points
HN discussionOn the other hand, "there are languages everyone complains about, and there are languages nobody uses." See, for instance, https://stackify.com/popular-programming-languages-2018/ .
Comment linking /popular-programming-languages-2018/
on “I disagree with Linus Torvalds about C++ (2009)”Submitted Top Node.js Debugging Tips to Debug Like a Pro as a story · 3 points
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