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Wingify Engineering
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Wingify Engineering is the company blog at engineering.wingify.com, writing about web and programming. Since 2013, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 25 times, most often “How we built our own CDN at Wingify”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-12-08, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked as further reading on the DOM Comparator library for analysing and comparing HTML DOM trees. Other comments are hiring posts for Wingify and say nothing about the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
This is the engineering blog from the hackers at Wingify
Most-linked posts?
- How we built our own CDN at Wingify2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-07-23
What Hacker News says?
While "easy programming tricks" are not all it takes to understand difficult mathematics, writing a math paper like good code makes it drastically easier to understand what's going on. E.g., encapsulation - given a theorem with a highly technical proof, but ideas from the proof are not super important, hide the proof in an appendix. This is directly analogous to private functions which are only used to power a publi…
Comment linking /posts/Free-objects/
on “I no longer understand my PhD dissertation”Submitted Scaling with Queues as a story · 68 points
HN discussionWingify Labs | Pune (Kalyani Nagar) and Delhi (Pitampura), India. Onsite Wingify (wingify.com) is the company behind Visual Website Optimizer (vwo.com). Wingify Labs is focused on building new worldclass products, both SAAS and consumer facing. If you want to level up your skills and build things you've never thought you could build, this is the place for you. We've got a lot of projects cooking - from a SAAS focusi…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2016)”Submitted Case study: Getting 60FPS using Chrome devtools as a story · 14 points
HN discussionWingify http://wingify.com/ and https://vwo.com - Delhi, India - Full time Senior engineers for frontend (Angular.js), backend (PHP), Android, iOS and systems (nginx) VWO is one of the market leading conversion rate optimization platforms that packs A/B testing, heatmaps, surveys and personalization in one solid platform. We've profitably bootstrapped our double digit annual growth to thousands of customers now (inc…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2015)”Submitted How We Made The Animated A/B Testing Guide as a story · 12 points
HN discussionFurther reading: http://engineering.wingify.com/dom-comparator/
Comment linking /dom-comparator/
on “DOM Comparator: A library to analyse and compare two HTML DOM trees”Submitted JQuery Promises: The answer to PostMessage's asynchrony as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Elasticsearch for Analytics as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: please.js - a PostMessage based communication library as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Strategy for efficiently publishing data to Google Pub/Sub with lua-Nginx as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fast Storage with RocksDB as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Q-directives: A faster directive system for Angular.js as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Compare two DOM strings and find minimum difference between the two as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted How we built our own CDN at Wingify as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Automated e2e testing - WebDriverJS, Jasmine and Protractor as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted DOM Comparator: A library to analyse and compare two HTML DOM trees as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Designers Should Understand Code as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted API Authentication with GCP Identity-Aware Proxy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Demand-driven vs. REST API as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Let's Talk Security at Wingify Engineering Talkies as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dynamic CDN we built at Wingify as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted VWO making AngularJS 1.x awesome as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Migrating Towards Yarn and Webpack as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fast Storage with RocksDB (Thrift and C++11) as a story · 1 points
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