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Will Portnoy

Personal blog · blog.willportnoy.comsystemsprogramming

Will Portnoy's personal blog at blog.willportnoy.com covers systems and programming. Since 2012, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Lessons learned from implementing Paxos (2012)”. The last post was in 2012, but the archive is still widely read.

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3mentions?
3HN people?
2012–2018first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 1 in 2012

Most-linked posts?

  1. Lessons learned from implementing Paxos (2012)
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-07-05

What Hacker News says?

  1. antman · 2015-03-20

    Submitted Lessons learned from implementing Paxos (2012) as a story · 49 points

    HN discussion
  2. federicoponzi · 2018-03-06

    Submitted Lessons Learned from Implementing Paxos at Microsoft Azure as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  3. willportnoy · 2012-07-05

    Submitted Lessons Learned from Implementing Paxos as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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