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Yeller Blog

Company blog · yellerapp.com/postsprogrammingsystems

Yeller Blog is the company blog at yellerapp.com, writing about programming and systems. Since 2014, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 45 times, most often “Set server timezones to UTC”. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.

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45mentions?
15HN people?
2014–2022first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 23 in 2014

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for posts on server configuration and time handling, such as using UTC and a date and time leak via HTTP gzip, and on testing Riak with QuickCheck.

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?

  1. Set server timezones to UTC
    5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2015-01-13
  2. Getting to Zero Exceptions
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-06-01
  3. Getting your Riak Conflict Resolution Right
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-05-09
  4. Clojure kwargs vs. explicit maps
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-03-23
  5. Incuriosity Will Kill Your Infrastructure
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-03-16

What Hacker News says?

  1. t__crayford · 2014-06-28
    I'm working on my startup: http://yellerapp.com . It's a smarter exception tracker, with a severe emphasis on helping you diagnose exceptions faster through better analysis. Last week I shipped time series graphs for all your exceptions, and now I'm working on some new client libraries.

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: What projects are you working on?”
  2. luu · 2015-03-16

    Submitted Incuriosity Will Kill Your Infrastructure as a story · 97 points

    HN discussion
  3. endymi0n · 2016-02-22
    Public Service Announcement: Use UTC. http://yellerapp.com/posts/2015-01-12-the-worst-server-setup...

    Comment linking /posts/2015-01-12-the-worst-server-setup-you-can-make.html

    on “HTTP GZIP Compression remote date and time leak”
  4. danlindley · 2016-07-16

    Submitted Set server timezones to UTC as a story · 82 points

    HN discussion
  5. biscarch · 2014-05-12
    They can be tested with quickcheck as well: http://yellerapp.com/posts/2014-05-08-testing-riak.html

    Comment linking /posts/2014-05-08-testing-riak.html

    on “Roshi: a CRDT system for timestamped events”
  6. luu · 2016-01-05

    Submitted Getting to Zero Exceptions as a story · 54 points

    HN discussion
  7. t__crayford · 2015-01-17
    Nice! I wholeheartedly agree - even so much I wrote a thing about this a while back: http://yellerapp.com/posts/2014-08-11-scientific-debugging.h...

    Comment linking /posts/2014-08-11-scientific-debugging.html

    on “Debugging with Hypotheses”
  8. luu · 2015-08-21

    Submitted Effective Feature Flags as a story · 11 points

    HN discussion
  9. t__crayford · 2015-01-13

    Submitted The Worst Server Setup Mistake You Can Make as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  10. Alupis · 2019-12-26

    Submitted Set server timezones to UTC (2015) as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  11. t__crayford · 2014-08-11

    Submitted How to Fix the Hardest Bug You've Ever Seen: The Scientific Method as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  12. t__crayford · 2014-05-12

    Submitted Abstract Your Key Value Store as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  13. t__crayford · 2015-03-03

    Submitted The Production Clojure Checklist as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  14. t__crayford · 2014-05-21

    Submitted Lessons Learned Tuning Clojure for a 45x Performance Boost as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  15. istvan__ · 2015-06-23

    Submitted Exceptions vs. Failure Values, a battle to the death? as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  16. mmastrac · 2016-01-05

    Submitted Getting to Zero Exceptions as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  17. luu · 2015-06-01

    Submitted Getting to Zero Exceptions as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  18. t__crayford · 2014-07-11

    Submitted Show HN: Error Tracking for Go as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  19. madmax108 · 2022-01-29

    Submitted The Worst Server Setup Mistake You Can Make as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  20. t__crayford · 2015-02-25

    Submitted How to Debug Haskell in Production as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  21. t__crayford · 2014-09-04

    Submitted Discover and fix your slow SQL queries as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  22. t__crayford · 2014-05-13

    Submitted Scaling Feature Flags With Zookeeper, Not Redis as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  23. t__crayford · 2014-05-07

    Submitted Testing Against Datomic as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  24. t__crayford · 2014-05-05

    Submitted Show HN: Yeller – An Exception Tracking app built for speed and scale as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  25. luu · 2015-05-11

    Submitted Help My Clojure Exception Has an Empty Stacktrace as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  26. t__crayford · 2015-03-23

    Submitted Clojure kwargs vs. explicit maps as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  27. t__crayford · 2015-02-09

    Submitted Distributed Systems Building Block: Flake Ids as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  28. t__crayford · 2015-01-27

    Submitted Every Language Prints Stacktraces Upside Down as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  29. mparramon · 2015-01-13

    Submitted Your Servers MUST Be in UTC as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  30. t__crayford · 2014-12-15

    Submitted The Race Condition in Clojure's `println` as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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