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sweetness.hmmz.org is a personal blog at sweetness.hmmz.org about programming and systems. Since 2018, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Operon: Extreme Performance for Ansible”. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog by the creator of Ansible for posts on config management, app deployment and OpsMop, and for a write-up of the Knight Capital trading failure. Also cited for JavaScript motion JPEG compression.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Operon: Extreme Performance for Ansible3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-10-28
- How to lose $172k per second for 45 minutes (2013)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-04-01
- Mitogen comes to Opsmop2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-12-18
What Hacker News says?
JS "motion JPEG" is actually computationally cheap to do at least in Firefox, it just burns a megaton of RAM.. https://sweetness.hmmz.org/2014-04-16-portable-9-22x-compres...
Comment linking /2014-04-16-portable-9-22x-compression-of-animated-gifs-with.html
on “Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video and audio”Submitted How to lose $172k per second for 45 minutes (2013) as a story · 327 points
HN discussionIt’s actually a drop-in engine for Ansible originally. See author’s blog: https://sweetness.hmmz.org/
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on “A Python library for writing distributed self-replicating programs”Submitted Announcing Operon: Extreme Performance for Ansible as a story · 6 points
HN discussionI'd much rather be in the position of having too much demand for a badly build piece of software then an awesome team, VC funds and a beautiful Elixir architecture with no demand. Reminds me of this post [1] that hit the top pages yesterday. It's actually the anti-example for my argument, but the way software runs in the real world. Apparently it's commercially more interesting to run cr*p, even if that gives rise t…
Comment linking /2013-10-22-how-to-lose-172222-a-second-for-45-minutes.html
on “Ask HN: I will pay you $2000 and code the MVP for your side-project”Submitted Mitogen and Mitogen for Ansible released as a story · 3 points
HN discussionKnight Capital also didn't know what version of software their servers were running, didn't know which servers were originating the bad requests, had abandoned code still in the codebase, and reused flags that controlled that abandoned code (another summary: https://sweetness.hmmz.org/2013-10-22-how-to-lose-172222-a-s... ). I'm not sure what you can infer about the risk of a rollback in a less crazy environment.
Comment linking /2013-10-22-how-to-lose-172222-a-second-for-45-minutes.html
on “Root cause analysis: significantly elevated error rates on 2019‑07‑10”Submitted Faster Ansible with Operon as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIt's ok if you think of it as such, the veneer over that actually isn't that deep, and that's ok. The trick is there are some norms you want to express in the language, things like handlers and such, and if you write directly at low level python every time that can be sometimes difficult to maintain a level of consistency (IMHO). Here's where it's NOT just a collection of python classes - https://sweetness.hmmz.org/…
Comment linking /2018-12-18-mitogen-opsmop.html
on “OpsMop – Config management and app deployment from the creator of Ansible”Submitted Operon: Extreme Performance for Ansible as a story · 2 points
HN discussionOk, so Fabric did exist even way back in 2012 when I did ansible. The common pattern of the day was to use Puppet to do OS config management and then Fabric to push out the apps. Fabric lacked declarative resources to describe the desired state of the end system, which is where Ansible came in. Ansible differed because it still allowed direct control over multi-machine orderings, which is (IMHO) easiest in push mode…
Comment linking /2018-12-18-mitogen-opsmop.html
on “OpsMop – Config management and app deployment from the creator of Ansible”Submitted Mitogen comes to Opsmop as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Operon: Extreme Performance for Ansible as a story · 1 points
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