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Re: Cloud.gov

#91

Post by fudged71 »

bmogilefsky wrote: post #11

I'm the product lead on cloud.gov... Thanks for noticing us! There are other Cloud Foundry deployments, but what makes cloud.gov special is the focus on ensuring federal agencies are actually able to use it. Federal compliance for a cloud service provider is a tough bar to clear, and without it most agencies are simply unable to take advantage of capabilities the rest of the world now takes for granted. That in turn…

The "Contact us" section is actually a "Subscribe to our newsletter", I would look into changing the copy there and/or providing actual contact details.

Re: Cloud.gov

#92

Post by teacup50 »

nvas wrote: post #62
konklone wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure, we have a lot of ATO/compliance stuff in the open: https://pages.18f.gov/before-you-ship/ And there's a GitHub repo with an issue tracker that would make for better conversation capturing than HN: https://github.com/18f/before-you-ship

Don't get me wrong, I really like the stuff you guys are doing, but I think 18F and the rest of the Gov operate in two different realms of bureaucracy and feasibility. Your management is on board with this stuff, while for the rest of the Devs in the government it's an uphill battle from the bottom. There is still a large gap between software that is on the approved list and the stuff you use, but as I am sure we bot…

Why on gods green earth would we want Slack to have access to internal government communications?

Re: Cloud.gov

#93

Post by chias »

bmogilefsky wrote: post #11

I'm the product lead on cloud.gov... Thanks for noticing us! There are other Cloud Foundry deployments, but what makes cloud.gov special is the focus on ensuring federal agencies are actually able to use it. Federal compliance for a cloud service provider is a tough bar to clear, and without it most agencies are simply unable to take advantage of capabilities the rest of the world now takes for granted. That in turn…

This is totally a minor thing, but I feel like the icons halfway down the page are off-by-one: http://i.imgur.com/bXTZqOZ.png

That is, the arrowbox thingie for scalability, the lock for security, etc?

Re: Cloud.gov

#94

Post by dang »

walrus01 wrote: post #13

I'm the product lead on butt.gov... Thanks for noticing us! There are other butt Foundry deployments, but what makes butt.gov special is the focus on ensuring federal agencies are actually able to use it. Federal compliance for a butt service provider is a tough bar to clear, and without it most agencies are simply unable to take advantage of capabilities the rest of the world now takes for granted. That in turn impe…

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11838077 and marked it off-topic.

Re: Cloud.gov

#96

Post by gooserock »

CydeWeys wrote: post #86
gooserock wrote: post #69

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For what it's worth, I applied to work with 18F late last year. I'm a web developer with a wide array of skills - front-end, back-end, and even UI/UX design, product design, and some marketing and management - with about 8 years of experience, mostly doing independent consulting with a couple years at a SF startup in there. I'm also very civic minded, doing a bunch of pro-bono work and (since) getting involved in com…

If that happens to you in the future, be honest and say that the other interviewer already asked you the same questions. Not doing so probably worked against you, as someone probably realized at some point that the same questions had been asked, and then they looked at each other in confusion wondering "Why didn't this guy say something?"

The funny thing was, in interview #2 I did mention that that they were asking me all the same questions, once it became clear that that was happening. The interviewer was like, "Oh? Really? Well this is our interview process," and then kept going. And these were 30-45 minute phone interviews, too. It was really strange.

Re: Cloud.gov

#97

Post by hiram112 »

gooserock wrote: post #69
bmogilefsky wrote: post #24

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We're recruiting actively across many disciplines. 18F employs a huge range of amazing people with diverse histories from both inside and outside of government. Everyone is an impact junkie. Salary is competitive with industry through a special hiring authority although capped at government levels without bonus, stock, etc. There are intangibles that come from actually being able to improve the way government approac…

For what it's worth, I applied to work with 18F late last year. I'm a web developer with a wide array of skills - front-end, back-end, and even UI/UX design, product design, and some marketing and management - with about 8 years of experience, mostly doing independent consulting with a couple years at a SF startup in there. I'm also very civic minded, doing a bunch of pro-bono work and (since) getting involved in com…

I also applied. It took about a month for someone to send me a two sentence 'thanks but no thanks' response. No interview offered.

I'm no rockstar, but I do have nearly a decade of experience, half of which is gov. contracting in the beltway. And my resume has no problems attracting recruiters from Amazon, MS, etc.

The whole process (admittedly only a few emails back and forth) felt very amateurish - as if their recruitment was run by some non-technical recent grads - similar to a lot of NGOs in the area.

Re: Cloud.gov

#99

Post by homero »

bmogilefsky wrote: post #11

I'm the product lead on cloud.gov... Thanks for noticing us! There are other Cloud Foundry deployments, but what makes cloud.gov special is the focus on ensuring federal agencies are actually able to use it. Federal compliance for a cloud service provider is a tough bar to clear, and without it most agencies are simply unable to take advantage of capabilities the rest of the world now takes for granted. That in turn…

Please let the public use it

Re: Cloud.gov

#100

Post by dijit »

rhizome wrote: post #87
jrockway wrote: post #73

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What is a Google-sized team?

Look at job ads. Many, many companies of all sizes ask for experience working with massively distributed architectures, "over 1,000 servers" and things like that.

FWIW I built and worked on a server farm of upwards of 2,000 physical servers with myself and one other. (with minor labour support from another team of 3 people when needed).

it's possible to work in a small team and be effective even at large scale.

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