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Stefan Wrobel

Personal blog · stefanwrobel.com · on HN as swrobelwebprogrammingbusiness

Stefan Wrobel's personal blog at stefanwrobel.com covers web, programming and business. Since 2014, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “I left Heroku for OpsWorks and shaved 40% off response times”. The last post was in 2014, but the archive is still widely read.

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5mentions?
3HN people?
2014–2019first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2014

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

Why HN links it

The linked post is about moving from Heroku to AWS OpsWorks. The one comment suggests OpsWorks as the closest match for someone used to Heroku and links to this post and a related introduction.

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.

The blog of Stefan Wrobel

The author on HN?

swrobel · 268 karma · member since 2010

Los Angeles-based founder of LifeWork, developer, surfer, adventurer, atheist. stefanwrobel.com lifeworkonline.com

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Most-linked posts?

  1. I left Heroku for OpsWorks and shaved 40% off response times
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-02-07

What Hacker News says?

  1. I'd suggest looking at AWS OpsWorks, which is probably closest to what you're used to. http://www.stefanwrobel.com/heroku-to-opsworks http://artsy.github.io/blog/2013/08/27/introduction-to-aws-o...

    Comment linking /heroku-to-opsworks

    on “Goodbye Heroku”
  2. Submitted I left Heroku for OpsWorks and shaved 40% off response times as a story · 73 points

    HN discussion
  3. SEEKING WORK Location: Los Angeles, CA Remote: yes, with compatible hours Ruby on Rails (10yrs) / React (3yrs) dev. I specialize in helping startups get MVPs built efficiently. I have founded 4 startups myself and freelance between. More: https://stefanwrobel.com https://github.com/swrobel https://www.linkedin.com/in/swrobel/ swrobel [at] gmail

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2019)”
  4. Submitted How to make Vagrant performance not suck as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted How does Responsive Design affect conversion rate? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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