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vlfig.me is a personal blog at vlfig.me about programming and systems. Since 2020, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Microservices – architecture nihilism in minimalism's clothes”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-02-14, and you can follow it by feed.

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7HN people?
2020–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2020

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

Why HN links it

The comment linking this blog gives no view of its writing. It lists other posts on microservices, Kubernetes adoption and architecture complexity, which the thread on developer effectiveness is discussing.

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.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Microservices – architecture nihilism in minimalism's clothes
    6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2020-09-29

What Hacker News says?

  1. Here is my non complete list: - Who’s at the Helm? [0] - Microservices, hard as 1, 2, 3 - You can move it but complexity is still here [1] - Microservices — architecture nihilism in minimalism's clothes [2] - Do I Really Need Kubernetes? [3] - Your team might not need Kubernetes [4] I doubt that any of those articles could convince higher management. I don't know what a "respected source" actually means. I general I…

    Comment linking /posts/microservices

    on “Maximizing Developer Effectiveness”
  2. Submitted Microservices – architecture nihilism in minimalism's clothes as a story · 306 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Microservices – architecture nihilism in minimalism's clothes as a story · 2 points

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