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Dan Woods
Personal blog · danveloper.medium.compoliticssystems
Dan Woods's personal blog at danveloper.medium.com covers politics and systems. Since 2021, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “How the 2020 Election Changed Tech in Politics Forever”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Dan Woods' Medium posts on infrastructure at scale when discussing outages and service reliability, including a comparison to the Target TAP outage and Consul problems.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /on-infrastructure-at-scale-a-cascading-failure-of-distributed-systems-7cff2a3cd2df2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-11-01
- How the 2020 Election Changed Tech in Politics Forever2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-01-17
What Hacker News says?
This reminds me of the Target TAP outage some years ago: https://danveloper.medium.com/on-infrastructure-at-scale-a-c...
Comment linking /on-infrastructure-at-scale-a-cascading-failure-of-distributed-systems-7cff2a3cd2df
on “An Update on Our Outage”Submitted How the 2020 Election Changed Tech in Politics Forever as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI have been burn by Consul countless time and advise to not actively using it. Google around company has down time with consult https://www.protocol.com/newsletters/protocol-enterprise/rob... https://danveloper.medium.com/on-infrastructure-at-scale-a-c... I had use consul extensively in 2016-2017 with consul template. The problem with consul is it's very easy to reject connection. Accidently have a node with too old…
Comment linking /on-infrastructure-at-scale-a-cascading-failure-of-distributed-systems-7cff2a3cd2df
on “A Foolish Consistency: Consul at Fly.io”Submitted How the 2020 Election Changed Tech in Politics Forever as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
