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The Burndown Journey
Company blog · instrumentalapp.com/blogprogrammingsystems
The Burndown Journey is the company blog at instrumentalapp.com, writing about programming and systems. Since 2013, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Amazon Kinesis: the best event queue you’re not using”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Instrumental's product page while listing it among developer tools, including in a 2013 'Tools of the trade' thread. The comments discuss it as a tool, not as writing.
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?
- Amazon Kinesis: the best event queue you’re not using2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-03-08
What Hacker News says?
Awesome, great to see Instrumental ( https://instrumentalapp.com/ ) in your list. I'm one of the folks working on it, would love to hear your thoughts on us. Some quick reviews of some of the products listed: * Lighthouse ( http://lighthouseapp.com ) - Bug Tracker - good for keeping track of simple stuff last I used it (~2 years ago), but Github Issues obviated its use for me. * Pivotal ( http://www.pivotaltracker.c…
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: Tools of the trade, 2013 edition”Submitted Application Monitoring Is The New Unit Testing as a story · 13 points
HN discussionI've been assembling a list of these lately for a book that I'm working on. ( http://startingandsustaining.com ) Some of the categories are fairly loose as some apps don't fit nicely into categorical buckets, but hopefully this is a helpful list. --Browser/Email Testing BrowserStack ( http://www.browserstack.com ) Litmus ( http://litmus.com ) --Bug/Issue Tracking BugHerd ( http://bugherd.com ) Lighthouse ( http://li…
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on “Ask HN: Tools of the trade, 2013 edition”Submitted Why you should stop using the us-standard Region in S3 as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Monitoring Queues: Age vs. Depth as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Toku vs. Mongo – Fight as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Amazon Kinesis: the best event queue you’re not using as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Amazon Kinesis: the best event queue you’re not using as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to monitor user visible errors as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Who's Hammering Your System? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What features do your users actually use? as a story · 1 points
HN discussion