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Till's blog
Personal blog · till.klampaeckel.de/blogprogrammingwebdata
Till's blog is a personal blog at till.klampaeckel.de about programming, web and data. Since 2009, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “Shopping for a CDN”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Most-linked posts?
- Shopping for a CDN2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-08-28
What Hacker News says?
Here are the ones in my reader, admittedly I haven't visited often enough over the past couple of months: http://www.igvita.com/ http://ejohn.org/ http://codingrelic.geekhold.com/ (Denny covers assembly and networking issues often in great detail) http://buhrmi.tumblr.com/ http://elegantcode.com/ http://72lions.com/ http://kellabyte.com/ (mobile-ish dev) http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/ http://ihumanable.com/blog htt…
Comment linking /blog/
on “Ask HN: What programming blogs do you read daily?”Submitted PHP: So you'd like to migrate from MySQL to CouchDB? - Part I as a story · 31 points
HN discussionCongrats, Paras! As for a comparison, Optimizely uses Akamai which has 100,000 nodes in 75 countries. VWO uses Cloudfront and does two round-trips. Cloudfront has 32 points of presence in 12 countries. Optimizely response time: Slowest: 289ms, Average: 65ms, Slowest: 19ms VWO response time: Slowest 1983ms, Average: 276ms, 171ms Source: http://till.klampaeckel.de/blog/archives/100-Shopping-for-a-... Unique features t…
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on “Bootstrapped Wingify moves to a bigger office and hits 1600+ customers”Submitted Some Thoughts on Cloud Outages, Amazon EC2 & Avoiding Future Issues as a story · 8 points
HN discussionDependency Injection (DI) and Dependency Injection Containers (DIC) are the "in-thing" in PHP at present, and to speak against them [0] is - like disagreeing with anything fanboys latch onto - ridiculed, without a sensible discussion or explanation. From a testing perspective I sort-of get it; from a "this is less tightly coupled" I don't: all you've done is move the coupling to a different level. Code always has to…
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on “Dependency Injection for Python”- ot · 2012-01-06
Submitted The future of CouchDB as a story · 7 points
HN discussion This guy Till is awesome, real world examples/strategy to scale with CouchDB http://till.klampaeckel.de/blog/archives/95-Operating-CouchD... http://till.klampaeckel.de/blog/archives/84-A-toolchain-for-... here's his github: http://github.com/till
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on “First Impressions of Sitting a Web App on CouchDB”Submitted Women in Tech as a story · 5 points
HN discussion> Not everything went as we hoped or expected, however. Unfortunately, we confused the heck out of many of our potential users. In addition to Membase Server and our new mobile products we also offered Couchbase Single Server which was a packaged “distribution” of Apache CouchDB. On top of that we began releasing developer previews of Couchbase Server 2.0, which incorporated CouchDB technology into Membase Server –…
Comment linking /blog/archives/174-Quo-vadis,-CouchDB.html
on “Couchbase 2011 - Year in Review”Submitted Shopping for a CDN as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Small notes on CouchDB's views as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hosted MySQL: Amazon RDS (and backups) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Women in Tech Conferences (Europe/Germany) as a story · 1 points
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