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Tomasz Janczuk
Personal blog · tomasz.janczuk.orgprogrammingweb
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.
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?
- Extensibility through HTTP with webtasks2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-02-12
- How to build your own serverless platform2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-04-02
- The HTTP.SYS stack for node.js apps on Windows2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-09-12
- Stripe payments without back end2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-02-02
- Hosting node.js applications in IIS on Windows2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-08-25
What Hacker News says?
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”Submitted From Kafka to ZeroMQ for real-time log aggregation as a story · 197 points
HN discussionTypescript 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”Submitted From Kafka to ZeroMQ for real-time log aggregation as a story · 97 points
HN discussionI 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”Submitted Extensibility through HTTP with webtasks as a story · 86 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stripe payments without back end as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted LetsGo – A new starter kit for starting startups as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hosting .NET code in node.js applications using OWIN as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hosting node.js applications in IIS on Windows as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to save $5 million running a Node.js application as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to build your own serverless platform as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Serverless webhooks to revolutionize the SaaS as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Serverless fax from the 21st century as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Webhooks 2.0 – the way they should have been as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Debug node.js applications on Windows with iisnode integrated debugging as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to build your own serverless platform as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted From Kafka to ZeroMQ for real-time log aggregation (2015) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Extend Stripe with Node.js as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What is Function-as-a-Service vs. Serverless? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted .NET hosted inside Node.js - implementing middleware or CPU-bound tasks as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Quick Developer’s Guide to Function-As-a-Service [Webtasks] [pdf] as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stripe team signup page without back end as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Accept Stripe payments without a back end using Webtasks as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Script CoreCLR from Node.js Using Edge.js as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The HTTP.SYS stack for node.js apps on Windows as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sub-process, multi-tenant runtime for HTTP APIs using node.js as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hosting node.js applications in IIS as a story · 1 points
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