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Is there a reason why these big layoffs are done just before thanksgiving, Christmas etc?
Employers can save out on paying holiday PTO
As someone affected by layoffs earlier last month, I can say this market is not looking great. With hiring frozen everywhere I'm afraid there probably won't be hope until Q2 2023
I was also laid off earlier last month. Comments like yours would scare me. So I hope I don't come across as rude or anything, but I want to provide a counter-anecdote. I was laid off in very early November. I took about 2 weeks just to get over about 80% of my saltiness at what I considered to be a betrayal. (I won't go into detail, forgive me, I'm still not able to talk about it without being salty yet.) I then ask…
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Read maybe not, but I was there if you are curious about anything. I was there during the transition period. Originally joined to work on the Meteor hosting platform that was called Galaxy. Handled integration of Meteor APM (which was an acquisition) both of which got sold off when the old Meteor business was sold. I then worked on what was called Apollo Optics, the GraphQL APM product. Rewrote the time series backen…
Sorry to hear about their letting you go. To be honest I don't understand Apollo's business model, not once did I feel like I needed to pay for it, its free version solves all my needs.
I believe the compelling part of the current offering is the schema management features. We started building these when I was there. I don't know to what degree the alerting part of the APM product survived. It was originally requested by an enterprise customer and I re-implemented it on-top of Druid to make it much more scalable. My assumption is that should be a bit of a draw. etc.
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Sorry to hear about their letting you go. To be honest I don't understand Apollo's business model, not once did I feel like I needed to pay for it, its free version solves all my needs.
I'm not sad about it, turned out really well for me. I believe the compelling part of the current offering is the schema management features. We started building these when I was there. I don't know to what degree the alerting part of the APM product survived. It was originally requested by an enterprise customer and I re-implemented it on-top of Druid to make it much more scalable. My assumption is that should be a…
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I'm not sad about it, turned out really well for me. I believe the compelling part of the current offering is the schema management features. We started building these when I was there. I don't know to what degree the alerting part of the APM product survived. It was originally requested by an enterprise customer and I re-implemented it on-top of Druid to make it much more scalable. My assumption is that should be a…
Good to hear, what are you working on these days?
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Good to hear, what are you working on these days?
I'm working on no-code stuff at Glide. Specifically building our infrastructure to support millions of customer tables. :)
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At the same time, everyone in the startup game needs to know that this is a fairly likely outcome. It's just not as safe as being at an institution that can weather the storm. I tell potential hires explicitly that this can fail, and that there's a runway, and that it's uncertain. I've seen so many places try to sell people that it's just kicking ass all the way to the bank. So, when a CEO makes this kind of statemen…
"Institutions that can weather the storm" like Google? Like Facebook? Amazon? The entire industry has had layoffs, regardless of size. In fact, in my experience there's plenty of startups that are still growing and hiring the laid off talent from the big institutions. Apollo was not one of those companies, but it doesn't seem like it being a startup had any impact.
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No it's not. Severance is extremely common, while this package is quite generous.
Severance is common in high paying tech jobs. Severance is not common in general. Almost 60% of US workers are hourly and most of them don't get severance. A lot of the other 40% dont either. https://www.workstream.us/blog/hourly-vs-salaried-jobs-benef...
In the UK, it's common for employers to have contractual obligation to pay a notice period, and for longer term employees they are legally obliged to be firing them on capacity or redundancy grounds - so it is common to pay some severance in order to pay the employee to resign themself and sign some legal paperwork saying it's okay.
I don't get why employers pay extra money "just to be nice" where there isn't some legal reason to do it...?
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It’s arguably the least sophisticated of the major clients (Apollo, Urql, Relay), but they’ve done a great job with marketing and documentation. But I’ve personally never used it in a real project because Relay has always existed and I know how to use it.
And for the server? What do you use instead of Apollo?
For JavaScript, I originally used graphql-js and express-graphql, as these were the original libraries and I was a literal day 1 adopter. All the libraries are essentially just wrappers around graphql-js, so it's still viable to use directly. But for schema-building I now use Pothos (https://pothos-graphql.dev/), I'd probably use graphql-helix as the http layer (https://github.com/contra/graphql-helix).