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Mathias Meyer

Personal blog · paperplanes.deprogrammingcareer

Mathias Meyer is a personal blog at paperplanes.de about programming and career. Since 2008, 51 different Hacker News readers have linked it 66 times, most often “Travis CI: From Open to Minimum Vacation Policy”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-03-11, and you can follow it by feed.

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66mentions?
51HN people?
2008–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 11 in 2011

Executive Leadership Coach, Author

Most-linked posts?

  1. Travis CI: From Open to Minimum Vacation Policy
    5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2014-12-10
  2. Why Hiring for “Culture Fit” Hurts Your Culture
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-06-11
  3. The Simple Magic of Consistent Hashing
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-12-10
  4. MongoDB, Data Durability and Improvements coming in 1.8
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-01-10
  5. A Collection Of Redis Use Cases
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-02-16
  6. On Drafting an Engineering Strategy
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-01-31
  7. What Adopting Blameless Post-Mortems Has Taught Me About Culture
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-06-20
  8. Web Operations 101 For Developers
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-07-25
  9. Paperplanes. Why is my team not doing what I expect from them?
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-06-18

What Hacker News says?

  1. slillibri · 2011-02-21
    Here is a blog post (not mine) that I keep returning to that contains a pile of links to different Redis uses/use cases. http://www.paperplanes.de/2010/2/16/a_collection_of_redis_us...

    Comment linking /2010/2/16/a_collection_of_redis_use_cases.html

    on “Redis at Disqus”
  2. michaelochurch · 2014-12-10

    Submitted Travis CI: From Open to Minimum Vacation Policy as a story · 675 points

    HN discussion
  3. s0uthPaw88 · 2015-08-04
    Some reports of companies where a change to unlimited vacation caused employees to take less time off: 1. http://www.paperplanes.de/2014/12/10/from-open-to-minimum-va... 2. http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2015/07/14/unlimited_vac...

    Comment linking /2014/12/10/from-open-to-minimum-vacation-policy.html

    on “Netflix Announces Its New ‘Unlimited’ Maternity and Paternity Leave Program”
  4. timf · 2012-01-30

    Submitted A Tour of Amazon's DynamoDB as a story · 143 points

    HN discussion
  5. stoneg · 2011-01-28
    It's true, we also experienced data loss (several millions of log data caused by dirty shutdown, it's data file is very fragile) issue like this thread http://groups.google.com/group/mongodb-user/browse_thread/th... I found the following two posts very insightful： 1, http://www.mikealrogers.com/2010/07/mongodb-performance-dura... "This (mongodb's write plolicy) is kind of like using UDP for data that you care about…

    Comment linking /2011/1/10/mongodb_and_data_durability.html

    on “MongoDB 1.7.5 Released with single server durability”
  6. mattyb · 2011-01-10

    Submitted MongoDB, Data Durability and Improvements coming in 1.8 as a story · 100 points

    HN discussion
  7. eddiezane · 2015-07-18
    I really like Travis CI's take on unlimited vacation time [0]. Probably won't ever catch on in the US though. 0: http://www.paperplanes.de/2014/12/10/from-open-to-minimum-va...

    Comment linking /2014/12/10/from-open-to-minimum-vacation-policy.html

    on “Ask HN: What is it like working at Netflix?”
  8. roidrage · 2011-07-25

    Submitted Web Operations 101 For Developers as a story · 88 points

    HN discussion
  9. roidrage · 2012-07-05
    Sure can. I actually wrote a post about how I'm building and publishing the book a while back which has more details on the fulfillment provider as well: http://www.paperplanes.de/2012/1/12/my-publishing-tool-chain...

    Comment linking /2012/1/12/my-publishing-tool-chain.html

    on “Six-ish Months of eBook Sales: Riak Handbook”
  10. paulsb · 2010-02-16

    Submitted A Collection Of Redis Use Cases as a story · 85 points

    HN discussion
  11. hughes · 2015-02-25
    How about a "minimum vacation" policy? http://www.paperplanes.de/2014/12/10/from-open-to-minimum-va...

    Comment linking /2014/12/10/from-open-to-minimum-vacation-policy.html

    on “The Hidden Costs of Being an Uber Driver”
  12. brlnwest · 2020-02-10

    Submitted On Drafting an Engineering Strategy as a story · 72 points

    HN discussion
  13. aphyr · 2011-02-10
    I can't see using MongoDB for any production project. It combines a limited replication/sharding model with a poor single-server durability, lack of tunable CAP constraints, and some surprising performance bottlenecks. If you want integrity and SQL, use PostGres. If you want volatile speed, use Redis or Membase. If you want a rich data model and excellent durability with limited but highly configurable replication,…

    Comment linking /2011/1/10/mongodb_and_data_durability.html

    on “Ask HN: Should we all start using MongoDB for new projects?”
  14. roidrage · 2014-04-17

    Submitted The Developer is Dead, Long Live the Developer as a story · 61 points

    HN discussion
  15. jtfairbank · 2015-01-27
    42 floors has an interesting mandatory 2 weeks vacation when you start working there. [0] Paperplanes has a mandatory minimum vacation policy on top of their unlimited vacation policy, in order to prevent employees from feeling like they can never take a break since there's always more to do (a common issue with unlimited vacation policies). As for my own startup, we're still super early stage so its "unlimited" but…

    Comment linking /2014/12/10/from-open-to-minimum-vacation-policy.html

    on “Ask HN: Which are the best Vacation Policies you've ever heard about?”
  16. thibaut_barrere · 2012-07-05

    Submitted Six-ish Months of eBook Sales: Riak Handbook as a story · 54 points

    HN discussion
  17. roidrage · 2011-04-25

    Submitted EventMachine, How Does It Work? as a story · 49 points

    HN discussion
  18. michaelochurch · 2015-06-11

    Submitted Why Hiring for “Culture Fit” Hurts Your Culture as a story · 40 points

    HN discussion
  19. transmit101 · 2009-10-29

    Submitted When to Redis as a story · 39 points

    HN discussion
  20. binbasti · 2010-07-05

    Submitted Relational Data, Document Databases and Schema Design as a story · 37 points

    HN discussion
  21. roidrage · 2011-01-05

    Submitted The Virtues of Monitoring as a story · 32 points

    HN discussion
  22. tosh · 2024-09-22

    Submitted The Simple Magic of Consistent Hashing (2011) as a story · 31 points

    HN discussion
  23. janl · 2009-10-30

    Submitted How to Redis — Part #3 of the paperplanes.de Redis Saga as a story · 27 points

    HN discussion
  24. timf · 2013-01-10

    Submitted The Virtues of Monitoring, Redux as a story · 22 points

    HN discussion
  25. luccastera · 2008-10-07

    Submitted Merb's run_later Coming to a Thread-safe Rails Near You as a story · 18 points

    HN discussion
  26. michaelfairley · 2012-07-10

    Submitted On Resilience in Automated Systems, Failures and the Human Factor as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  27. suprgeek · 2010-02-17

    Submitted NoSQL and You as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  28. josegonzalez · 2013-01-02

    Submitted On Pager Duty as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  29. michaelfairley · 2012-10-31

    Submitted A Story About Queues in Four Acts as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  30. febeling · 2012-07-10

    Submitted On Resilience in Automated Systems, Failures and the Human Factor as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion

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