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Alex Ewerlöf

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Alex Ewerlöf's personal blog at alexewerlof.medium.com covers programming and career. Since 2020, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Dissecting the S3 SLA”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.

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6mentions?
5HN people?
2020–2022first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2022

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link this author's Medium posts, such as a dissection of the S3 service level agreement, as an example of reading SLAs. The comments cite the post rather than judging its writing.

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.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Dissecting the S3 SLA
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-02-25

What Hacker News says?

  1. Reading SLA can be complicated but it definitely pays back both in terms of money and reduced risk. Here's a dissection of S3 SLA as an example: https://alexewerlof.medium.com/dissecting-the-s3-sla-26421dd... and Amazon is quite good.

    Comment linking /dissecting-the-s3-sla-26421dda2d56

    on “Tell HN: Read up on your GitHub Support SLA”
  2. Submitted My guiding principles after 20 years of programming (2020) as a story · 505 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Salary Negotiation Strategy as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Dissecting the S3 SLA as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted The Ownership Trio as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted The Internal Tourism Program as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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