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Stories by KP on Medium
Personal blog · karl-pickett.medium.comprogrammingsystems
Stories by KP on Medium is a personal blog at karl-pickett.medium.com about programming and systems. Since 2020, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-01-14, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in a thread on building the same app with different web frameworks, with a focus on performance and concurrency overhead, such as C# TPL versus Go goroutines.
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.
What Hacker News says?
You're not really making a lot of argumentation to back up your claims. Anyone can Search engine benchmarking and get the results they want. Just look here: https://karl-pickett.medium.com/benchmarking-a-toy-c-task-vs... Hell, you can even test things yourself: https://go.dev/src/runtime/stack.go For our specific use case C#'s TPL was ok, but it comes with a massive overhead compared to Goroutines. We can have tens…
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on “Building the same app using various web frameworks”Submitted Grumpy Old Man: Error Handling and Hubris as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Programming Like It's 1999 (Before Agile/Scrum) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted AWS Lambda Is Not a Magic Reliability Wand as a story · 2 points
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