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Tomasz Janczuk

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Tomasz Janczuk writes Tomek on Software, a personal blog at tomasz.janczuk.org about programming and web. Since 2011, 19 different Hacker News readers have linked it 28 times, most often “Extensibility through HTTP with webtasks”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.

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28mentions?
19HN people?
2011–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 9 in 2016

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link Tomasz Janczuk's blog for technical write-ups on Node.js on Windows and IIS, the Edge.js bridge to SQL Server, http.sys performance, and Auth0 webtasks. Links are mostly used as references in tool discussions.

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.

Software - shaken, not stirred

Most-linked posts?

  1. Extensibility through HTTP with webtasks
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-02-12
  2. How to build your own serverless platform
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-04-02
  3. The HTTP.SYS stack for node.js apps on Windows
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-09-12
  4. Stripe payments without back end
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-02-02
  5. Hosting node.js applications in IIS on Windows
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-08-25

What Hacker News says?

  1. I'd recommend using Edge.js for that: http://tomasz.janczuk.org/2013/06/access-sql-azure-from-node... http://tjanczuk.github.io/edge/ http://tech.pro/tutorial/1852/how-to-leverage-sql-server-wit...

    Comment linking /2013/06/access-sql-azure-from-nodejs-app.html

    on “Node.js Tools for Visual Studio”
  2. Submitted From Kafka to ZeroMQ for real-time log aggregation as a story · 197 points

    HN discussion
  3. Typescript is closely integrated with Node.js at this point. So there's this related open source project seeking to optimize the performance of Node.js apps running on IIS and hosting them on Azure. https://github.com/tjanczuk/iisnode/wiki We've seen some interesting performance gains by supplanting Node.js's HTTP implementation with the in-kernel HTTP stack, http.sys. http://tomasz.janczuk.org/2012/08/the-httpsys-s…

    Comment linking /2012/08/the-httpsys-stack-for-nodejs-apps-on.html

    on “TypeScript 0.9 released”
  4. Submitted From Kafka to ZeroMQ for real-time log aggregation as a story · 97 points

    HN discussion
  5. I read this blog post, as well as "Rethinking backend with webtasks" [1], and I'm still not 100% I understand the motivation behind this - I'm not a frontend developer so I probably don't have the right perspective to understand. Here's what I can gather: The service that this fellow works on, Auth0, wanted to offer very flexible ("write your own plugin code") customization to their users, beyond what webhooks can o…

    Comment linking /2015/04/rethinking-backend-with-webtasks.html

    on “Extensibility through HTTP with webtasks”
  6. Submitted Extensibility through HTTP with webtasks as a story · 86 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Stripe payments without back end as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted LetsGo – A new starter kit for starting startups as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Hosting .NET code in node.js applications using OWIN as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Hosting node.js applications in IIS on Windows as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted How to save $5 million running a Node.js application as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted How to build your own serverless platform as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Serverless webhooks to revolutionize the SaaS as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Serverless fax from the 21st century as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Webhooks 2.0 – the way they should have been as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted Debug node.js applications on Windows with iisnode integrated debugging as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted How to build your own serverless platform as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted From Kafka to ZeroMQ for real-time log aggregation (2015) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted Extend Stripe with Node.js as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted What is Function-as-a-Service vs. Serverless? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted .NET hosted inside Node.js - implementing middleware or CPU-bound tasks as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted Quick Developer’s Guide to Function-As-a-Service [Webtasks] [pdf] as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted Stripe team signup page without back end as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted Accept Stripe payments without a back end using Webtasks as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  25. Submitted Script CoreCLR from Node.js Using Edge.js as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  26. Submitted The HTTP.SYS stack for node.js apps on Windows as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  27. Submitted Sub-process, multi-tenant runtime for HTTP APIs using node.js as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  28. Submitted Hosting node.js applications in IIS as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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