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thoughts in plain text is a personal blog at lc0.github.io about data, programming and career. Since 2013, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Celery Messaging at Scale at Instagram”. The last post was in 2015, but the archive is still widely read.

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6mentions?
5HN people?
2013–2020first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2013

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

The linked post covers Celery messaging at scale, cited as evidence that Instagram used Celery at large scale. The comment only links to it and does not judge the writing.

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.

Data-driven approach is good in the most cases. Most of us have seen people use this approach for some of the business decisions, or something you …

Most-linked posts?

  1. Celery Messaging at Scale at Instagram
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-05-01

What Hacker News says?

  1. For the record, back in the days, Instagram used Celery at large scale : http://lc0.github.io/blog/2013/05/01/celery-messaging-at-sca...

    Comment linking /blog/2013/05/01/celery-messaging-at-scale-at-instagram/

    on “Celery 5.0”
  2. Submitted The Story of Your Data by R as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Twitter word cloud with R as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Data-driven approach to CFP – mining PyData conferences – thoughts in plain text as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Celery Messaging at Scale at Instagram as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Building and Scaling a Company. Linkedin Story. as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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