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Voxer Engineering
Company blog · engineering.voxer.comprogrammingsystems
Voxer Engineering is the company blog at engineering.voxer.com, writing about programming and systems. Since 2013, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Backpressure and Unbounded Concurrency in Node.js”. The last post was in 2014, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Voxer Engineering posts on handling a million requests per minute with Go and on RestCommander, an async HTTP client service. Comments debate the design choices.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Backpressure and Unbounded Concurrency in Node.js5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2013-09-19
What Hacker News says?
Re: Semaphore: Not dropping the connection might mean we might starve others incoming msgs of resources (which might be a good thing) [0]. Also, releasing the semaphore back into the pool in case of failures takes on a happy complication of having to deal with errors beyond one's control. Re: Queue: Wouldn't the queue involve locking lest two workers end up trying to work on the same request? To be completely concur…
Comment linking /2013/09/16/backpressure-in-nodejs/
on “Handling 1M Requests per Minute with Go”Submitted Backpressure and Unbounded Concurrency in Node.js as a story · 41 points
HN discussion> REST over HTTP is cache-able using CDNs like CloudFront. GraphQL isn't? Whenever GraphQL uses HTTP, it is just as cache-able as any other bit of data over HTTP. Whether HTTP is the right choice is a decision each developer needs to make, based on the requirements of their project. > processing GraphQL might take a toll on the server I can not figure out what you mean. I denormalize my data to MongoDB or Riak or El…
Comment linking /2013/09/16/backpressure-in-nodejs/
on “RestCommander: Fast Parallel Async HTTP Client as a Service”Submitted Chef Part 2 - Performance as a story · 21 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hardware-accelerated CRC-32 library for Node.js as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Backpressure and Unbounded Concurrency in Node.js as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Backpressure and Unbounded Concurrency in Node.js as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Riak checking script in use at Voxer as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
