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Steve Marx
Personal blog · blog.smarx.comprogrammingweb
Steve Marx's personal blog at blog.smarx.com covers programming and web. Since 2010, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. The last post was in 2013, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers point to Steve Marx's blog for Azure tutorials, including Node, Python, Scala and Memcached on Azure, and for using blob leases to manage concurrency. The comments cite it as a reference.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-05-17
What Hacker News says?
www.site44.com itself is hosted on Site44. My blog is too ( http://blog.smarx.com ). Be careful when testing performance... browser refreshes trigger us going back to Dropbox to look for changes to files, so they're considerably slower than just navigating around a site (where we typically serve pages from an in-memory cache). EDIT: Forgot to mention I'm one of the founders of Planet Rational (the company that made…
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on “Site44 turns Dropbox folders into websites”Submitted Serving Your Website From a Windows Azure Drive as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIts working well for us. Its been interesting growing our company along side Azure. My company http://IActionable.com launched around the same time that Azure went RTM. So we've been through almost every bump and challenge together. I definitely have my list of things I wish they would change though. I consider myself one of the more squeaky members on the Azure Forums. Most of my issues are with deployment speed an…
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on “Why Startups Could Use .NET, But Don’t”Submitted Memcached in Windows Azure as a story · 1 points
HN discussionNot sure, but Microsoft has some great evangelists who are pretty opened minded these days. Steve Marx comes to mind. I've personally met him and he is a pretty smart guy! He's posted tutorials on using various technologies such as Node, Python, Scala and Memcached on Azure. http://blog.smarx.com/ Then there are also other articles on consuming Azure services with clients written in many languages. http://blog.smarx…
Comment linking /posts/windows-azure-storage-libraries-in-many-languages
on “Node.js SDK for Windows Azure on Github”For those working with Azure, you can take a lease on a blob to manage concurrency: http://blog.smarx.com/posts/managing-concurrency-in-windows-... It also has high availability, lease expiration timeouts etc.
Comment linking /posts/managing-concurrency-in-windows-azure-with-leases
on “Distributed Locking With DynamoDB”
