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stories.algolia.com
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stories.algolia.com is the company blog at stories.algolia.com, writing about programming and startups. Since 2016, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 22 times, most often “The new paradigm: engineers as marketers”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Algolia's engineering blog for its posts on search latency, global infrastructure and company history. Commenters call the latency work terrific and the posts good.
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?
- /algolia-s-fury-road-to-a-worldwide-api-c1536c46f3a52 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-04-02
- The new paradigm: engineers as marketers2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-09-20
- Building a Search Engine in CSS2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-10-03
What Hacker News says?
.com/net/org are also faster, especially internationally, because of more infrastructure. Algolia found the same during their testing [1]. Use the main TLDs for serving traffic and .io/* for corporate/marketing sites or webapps if the occasional outage isn't a major problem. 1. https://stories.algolia.com/algolia-s-fury-road-to-a-worldwi...
Comment linking /algolia-s-fury-road-to-a-worldwide-api-c1536c46f3a5
on “.IO domain name reliability issues and how we’re working around them”Submitted Culture as a Growth Driver as a story · 17 points
HN discussionAlgolia has done some terrific work on search latency (and written about it which is awesome https://stories.algolia.com/how-algolia-reduces-latency-for-... ). I think ES can get there, but depends a lot on what hardware you deploy (SSDs!), how you build your index, and whether you can geographically distribute your search engine close to your users. We have one ES cluster with hundreds of queries per second that gi…
Comment linking /how-algolia-reduces-latency-for-21b-searches-per-month-3959dc926f0
on “Powering Twitch and Medium, Algolia (YC W14) raises $53M”Submitted A Search Engine in CSS as a story · 5 points
HN discussionCongratulations! Algolia wrote some good blog posts, for example: https://stories.algolia.com/how-the-founders-of-algolia-thin... https://stories.algolia.com/how-algolia-built-a-culture-firs...
Comment linking /how-algolia-built-a-culture-first-company-around-ownership-eee6623b1b6
on “Powering Twitch and Medium, Algolia (YC W14) raises $53M”Submitted A Search Engine in CSS (2018) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionWould be interesting to see the story of how you guys started from square one and built out your bare metal infrastructure. Really love the docsearch project btw, great UX. EDIT: Just found this blog post right after posting this comment https://stories.algolia.com/algolia-s-fury-road-to-a-worldwi...
Comment linking /algolia-s-fury-road-to-a-worldwide-api-c1536c46f3a5
on “How Algolia Reduces Latency”Submitted Curing blank page syndrome: turn every engineer into a writer as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Algolia uses Electron to improve internal productivity as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using RethinkDB change feeds to make indexing Algolia a breeze as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a Search Engine in CSS as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Different Kind of Swag as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted From Paris to Silicon Valley: Speaking at React Conf 2017 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted API Documentation should read like a travel guide to your home town as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Search Engine in CSS – By Tim Carry – Algolia Stories as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The developer-marketer era as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The new paradigm: engineers as marketers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Indexing PDF for Searching Using Tika, Nokogiri, and Algolia as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted [Search] Algolia: Born to Be Mobile as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why we’re backing Open Collective and webpack as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Who’s Jeff?–Things we learned at #Serverlessconf London 2016 as a story · 1 points
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