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Target Tech Blog
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Target Tech Blog is the company blog at tech.target.com, writing about programming, systems and security. Since 2019, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “Target's Open Source Fund”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-14, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Target's engineering blog, linked for posts on infrastructure, deployment pipelines, security and data methods such as matrix profiles. Commenters cite it as a source for engineering case studies.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Target is investing heavily in technology and innovation. Read more on the Target Technology engineering blog, and search job postings to join our team.
Most-linked posts?
- Target's Open Source Fund2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-03-11
- Target's EasySweep – Simplifying Skimmer Detection for All2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-07-19
- /infrastructure/2018/06/20/enter-unimatrix.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-05-18
What Hacker News says?
This story about a physical card reader checker to detect skimmer devices was interesting and posted here a couple years back. https://tech.target.com/blog/cybersecurity-easysweep https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36788831
Comment linking /blog/cybersecurity-easysweep
on “Root shell on a credit card terminal”Submitted Hardening the registers: A cascading failure of edge induced fault tolerance as a story · 137 points
HN discussionSorry -- I misremembered the story. But as another commenter notes, it's routine for women to not know they are pregnant [0]. So my claim is not "absurd", and I don't feel any need to "reflect" on my actions. The patronization is not necessary. The main intent of my anecdote is to show how retail companies are already analyzing data. And I think it's foolish to assume that we (i.e. people working directly in tech) k…
Comment linking /infrastructure/2018/06/20/enter-unimatrix.html
on “Aldi, a brutally efficient grocery chain, is upending America's supermarkets”Submitted Target's Open Source Fund as a story · 40 points
HN discussionHave you heard of BackStage [1]? A few companies have been adopting it to help make teams and departments to help devs. Target is a notable example of going from a really unproductive environment to much more supportive of devs [2]. Including handling building out infrastructure stacks you mentioned. * 1. https://backstage.io/ * 2. https://tech.target.com/
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on “Maximizing Developer Effectiveness”Submitted GoAlert – Now available in open source as a story · 8 points
HN discussionIt works well enough for Netflix - https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/edda-learn-the-stories-o... - and Target ( https://tech.target.com/2017/04/07/how-and-why-we-moved-to-s... ) :). I've only ever used Edda as part of a Spinnaker setup, but there's no reason it couldn't be used with something else, or the same idea in general reused. You don't have to cache it for very long, but you get two benefits here: Being ab…
Comment linking /2017/04/07/how-and-why-we-moved-to-spinnaker.html
on “Troubles with the AWS web console”Submitted Target's EasySweep – Simplifying Skimmer Detection for All as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThis blog post[1] from the developer helped me to understand this better. It's linked on the github page, but I wanted to provide the link for more direct clarity. Astonishingly, we can process 20 years’ worth of data, sampled every five minutes, in less than 20 seconds. That sounds quite promising. [1] https://tech.target.com/2018/12/11/matrix-profile.html
Comment linking /2018/12/11/matrix-profile.html
on “Show HN: Matrixprofile-ts – A Python library for timeseries motifs and discords”Submitted 50 Days of Learning: One Week as an Engineer (2019) as a story · 3 points
HN discussion>The greatest challenge teams faced with developing software for the stores was figuring out how to effectively build a continuous delivery pipeline to 1,800 deployment targets that was safe and expedient.[1] [1] https://tech.target.com/infrastructure/2018/06/20/enter-unim...
Comment linking /infrastructure/2018/06/20/enter-unimatrix.html
on “Target hit by nationwide payment outage”Submitted Target EasySweep – Simplifying Skimmer Detection for All as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIt's tedious to accomplish and not common, but it can be done: https://tech.target.com/blog/open-source-fund
Comment linking /blog/open-source-fund
on “Why big corps don't give donations to open-source maintainers?”Submitted How to Read the Internet as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Make Python DevEx as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Distributed Troubleshooting as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Graph Data Modeling – Asking the Right Questions as a story · 1 points
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