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Was about to say the exact same thing. Housing constraints are not limited to "near Nvidia HQ". It's the entire Bay Area. For those not from the area, it's city after city after ci…

TL;DR Give Blitz a try. I've been developing my app with Blitz. It has been an extremely productive framework to work with. The following are a few of the productivity boosts that …

One request I would have for SUS is to add the ability to add a weekly update in the past. More than once I was working late Sunday and well into Monday morning. When this happens …

Tenable | SF / Bay Area | ONSITE or REMOTE | Sr. Software Engineer and Principal Engineer positions open Tenable is a rapidly growing network security company. We’re expanding our …

Tenable | SF / Bay Area | ONSITE or REMOTE Software Engineer, Principal Engineer Tenable is a rapidly growing network security company. We’re expanding our engineering team to keep…

Tenable | SF / Bay Area | ONSITE or REMOTE Software Engineer, Sr. Software Engineer, Principal Engineer, Engineering Manager We're hiring at all skill levels. Tenable is a rapidly …

Tenable | SF / Bay Area | ONSITE or REMOTE Software Engineer, Sr. Software Engineer, Principal Engineer, Engineering Manager We're hiring at all skill levels. Tenable is a rapidly …

Amazon is a huge threat for any infrastructure company using Apache 2.0. If you gain popularity, then Amazon will be a direct competitor once they host your project. Given that Ama…

It's comparable to LevelDB and RocksDB. However, Badger is not comparable to Cassandra, ScyllaDB or DynamoDB as they are distributed database management systems. Cassandra, for exa…

Redis is a database management system (DBMS). Badger is a storage engine. An application developer would not choose Badger, but instead would pick a DBMS such as Redis. A database …

The terminology can be a bit confusing. Database Management System is what people often call a database. Unfortunately, the storage engine is also called a database. Badger, RocksD…

In my experience, your points about communication and onsite visits are key. Also, communication should be centralized and managed on both sides so there is not only a communicatio…

This is a followup to an earlier question asked about "science and machine learning" (url below). Same question, but for Data Engineering. How in demand are Data Engineers? Does de…

Steve Forbes wrote about the lack of planning and impact on ordinary citizens: http://www.forbes.com/sites/steveforbes/2016/12/22/what-indi...

There is simply no factual basis for this comment. Every American Muslim I have met believes in the 1st Amendment. Perhaps more than many Americans, American Muslims are acutely aw…

In case anyone who is not a Java dev wonders, "what is a fat jar"? A fat jar is a single runnable binary. It makes deploying Java super simple and is roughly equivalent to Go's sin…

AWS becomes interesting when you want to automate your infrastructure (i.e. infrastructure as software). When you're not orchestrating your infrastructure, then its probably overki…

Compose.io is owned by IBM. I had a chance to meet both the Compose team and a few people from IBM at the DataLayer conference. They are passionate and smart. Compose is in a sweet…

It's the full Redis API and protocol. See https://github.com/Netflix/dynomite/blob/dev/notes/redis.md for a list of all supported Redis features. The benefit of Dynomite's support …

Yes, I was a speaker at DataLayer. There are two answers to your first question. 1. Dynomite pairs well with Cassandra. At scale, Cassandra is not a speed deamon when it comes to r…

https://github.com/Netflix/dynomite Dynomite for production proven, limitless scale for Redis. Provides ability to Redis for both in-memory and on-disk workloads. Dynamo-inspired l…

The monopsony, which is infrequent in today's markets, is what caused these types of cities/towns. Specifically, a labor market monopsony.

What is the scale out process with Prometheus? Is sharding/replication a manual setup process or is it automated? What's involved in scaling out?

Interesting product. However, our problem is usually the inverse. We have a name + company + LinkedIn, but want the email address.

There is a lot of discussion going on currently around OSS business models. The general consensus is that support contracts / professional services / support do not monetize well e…