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Utsav Shah
Personal blog · softwareatscale.devprogrammingsystems
Utsav Shah writes Software at Scale, a personal blog at softwareatscale.dev about programming and systems. Since 2020, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 28 times, most often “Faster Python with Guido van Rossum”. 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
Posts on production systems topics such as Ruby memory allocation, CI/CD and SRE, plus the associated Software at Scale podcast. Comments discuss the podcast and topics, not the written posts.
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.
Discussions on running software systems, teams, and products.
Most-linked posts?
- Faster Python with Guido van Rossum4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-10-05
- Software at Scale2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-11-17
- Building Zerodha with Kailash Nadh2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-11-16
- Manageable On-Call for Companies Without Money Printers2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-04-26
What Hacker News says?
This resonates well. I have a hobby software podcast ( https://softwareatscale.dev/ ) and the most common question I get asked is around how I'm planning to monetize it. I've had unsolicited offers from acquaintances to partner up to set up merch deals (?) and even NFTs to sell episodes.
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on “The modern trap of turning hobbies into hustles (2019)”Submitted Faster Python with Guido van Rossum as a story · 221 points
HN discussionYou understand this is mostly ruby using jemalloc and some other memory allocation tricks? Support for doing this in python was added in PEP-445 ( https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0445/ ) and implementation details can be found here from 2013 ( https://bugs.python.org/issue3329 ). For more info see: https://docs.python.org/3/c-api/memory.html You can see some commentary on using malloc-trim here too -> https://ww…
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on “Fullstaq Ruby: Ruby, optimized for production”Submitted SQL vs. NoSQL Is the Wrong Distinction as a story · 108 points
HN discussion“Software at Scale” podcast often has great systems related interviews as well: https://www.softwareatscale.dev/podcast
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on “Good CI/CD and SRE Blogs”Submitted GUIDs Are Not the Only Answer as a story · 86 points
HN discussionI interviewed one of the creators of the Git sparse index a while back: https://www.softwareatscale.dev/p/software-at-scale-32-derri... which had some interesting tidbits.
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on “Highlights from Git 2.34”Submitted Software at Scale 34 – Faster Python with Guido van Rossum as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI've been following PlanetScale for a few years and interviewed their CTO Sugu last week: https://www.softwareatscale.dev/p/software-at-scale-29-sugu-... , if anyone's interested to hear their story of building Vitess for YouTube and some details on PlanetScale behind the scenes.
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on “Building PlanetScale with PlanetScale”Submitted Manageable On-Call for Companies Without Money Printers as a story · 5 points
HN discussionHi Kailash, Great to see you here; I've been listening to your episode on 'Software at Scale' podcast[1]. What you and your team have achieved at Zerodha is commendable, Congratulations. Couldn't have asked for a better recommendation for Postal, Time to save some money on emails. Thanks. [1] https://www.softwareatscale.dev/p/software-at-scale-37-build...
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on “Open-source mail delivery platform for incoming and outgoing email”Submitted GUIDs Are Not Enough as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI've been thinking about this with my software podcast too! ( https://softwareatscale.dev ). Was thinking of posting something similar here. You already have more downloads than I do, so you can take my advice with a grain of salt. - My written articles have done well and drove a bunch of signups to my newsletter. That introduces people to the podcast (substack lets me do combined newsletter/podcast). People are mor…
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on “Ask HN: How do you grow a pod?”Submitted How Software Infrastructure Affects Sales as a story · 3 points
HN discussionTech blog: https://www.softwareatscale.dev/ Substack to keep it simple. But I'm not extremely happy with the design.
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted The Performance Cost of Node.js and GraphQL as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Faster Python – With Guido van Rossum as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Manageable On-Call for Companies Without Money Printers as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Systemizing Platform Strategy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Software at Scale 34 – Faster Python with Guido van Rossum as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bharat Mediratta – The Story of Google Web Server (and More) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Quadratic C.I. Cost Growth as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Software at Scale as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building Zerodha with Kailash Nadh as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Migrating the Windows source code to Git [audio] as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Interview with Emma Tang: Ex Data Infrastructure Lead, Stripe as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mitigate Connection Leaks in Production with Proxies as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Go for Internal Services as a story · 1 points
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