Work in progress: 181,232 of 181,233 sites checked so far, more every week · updated 2 Nov 2026Missing a blog? Tell us

Top all-time · #10391

T

techblog.badoo.com

Company blog · techblog.badoo.com/blogprogrammingweb

techblog.badoo.com is the company blog at techblog.badoo.com, writing about programming and web. Since 2013, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

No feed foundVisit the blog
12mentions?
7HN people?
2013–2017first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 6 in 2016

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Badoo's engineering blog as a source of practical backend write-ups, such as its PHP 7 performance savings post and a Protocol Buffers presentation.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

What Hacker News says?

  1. SergeAx · 2017-04-21Recommends
    I like Badoo tech blog: https://techblog.badoo.com

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Which companies have the best blogs written by their engineering team?”
  2. Submitted How Badoo Saved $1M Switching to PHP7 as a story · 253 points

    HN discussion
  3. Significant improvement in response times, TPS, and memory usage are pretty universally observed when switching from PHP5.x to PHP7... https://www.symfony.fi/entry/symfony-benchmarks-php-56-hhvm-... http://www.zend.com/en/resources/php7_infographic https://techblog.badoo.com/blog/2016/03/14/how-badoo-saved-o... Edit: A slide deck with some detail on why it's so much better: http://www.slideshare.net/nikita_ppv/php-7…

    Comment linking /blog/2016/03/14/how-badoo-saved-one-million-dollars-switching-to-php7/

    on “PHP 7 at Tumblr”
  4. Submitted Advanced Javascript and Web Debugging Techniques as a story · 113 points

    HN discussion
  5. We have a presentation about that here: https://techblog.badoo.com/blog/2014/09/13/building-a-mainta...

    Comment linking /blog/2014/09/13/building-a-maintainable-bi-directional-cross-platform-protocol/

    on “Protocol Buffers v3.0.0 released”
  6. Submitted Type Checking in JavaScript as a story · 52 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted The technology of billing at Badoo as a story · 11 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Badoo’s chat framework for Android – now available on GitHub as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Crazy Agile API: how to design fast-changing APIs as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Mobile App Testing – Tips and Tricks as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Using regular expressions to hack our way towards AMDfication as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Using Regular Expressions to hack our way towards AMD modules as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

Search all of HN for techblog.badoo.com