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Debugging distributed database mysteries with Rust, packet capture and Polars(questdb.io)
88 points by grayfox 2y ago|3 comments
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ASOF Join – The "Do What I Mean" of the Database World(questdb.io)
2 points by grayfox 2y ago|0 comments
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Writing over 360k rows/sec on a 4GB Raspberry Pi 5(questdb.io)
2 points by grayfox 2y ago|0 comments
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You Probably Suck at Working Remotely(goodroot.ca)
15 points by grayfox 4y ago|3 comments
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by grayfox 10y ago
> ... And this 'news release' from Compose.io is the business equivalent of a vulture feasting on the carcass of its own mother. That is brutal, for conjecture. A fledgling open-source DB winding up on an as-a-service provider
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by grayfox 10y ago
Neat stuff. Hopefully they can get neat API integrations going to tie into all the machine learning being applied to shop/chat interfaces.
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Transparency: I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means(medium.com)
1 points by grayfox 10y ago|0 comments
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While Transparent, Agile = True(goodroot.ca)
1 points by grayfox 10y ago|0 comments
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by grayfox 10y ago
Our Support Engineers and Technical Content Creators do real intensive technical work. The role is not important at Compose. The system is built to best groom out 'core competencies'. A Support Engineer is a strong Ops/System
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by grayfox 10y ago
Oof, bummer. Your experience is slower than average. We ran into a grading crunch when we launched our Enterprise product. When you submit your work to us, your submission is anonymous. Three engineers grade each submission. Platform Engine
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by grayfox 10y ago
EQ has proven to be of vital importance in growing healthy teams. There was that Google study: http://www.inc.com/robin-camarote/google-study-reveals-emoti... The work-day would be where we assess EQ. It is difficult t
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by grayfox 10y ago
Ah! Out of space in the main post. We are only able to hire those that can legally work within Canada, the US, or the UK. Once hired, fully remote from anywhere.
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by grayfox 10y ago
Compose | Remote (Canada, US, UK) What: Databases-as-a-service. We offer production grade, auto-scaling, automatically backed-up, add-on compatible MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, and more. $: All roles start at 100k and scale up based on exper
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by grayfox 10y ago
That image from Julia Claven is excellent.
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by grayfox 10y ago
Compose (IBM) | REMOTE (US, UK, CA) If you are looking to join a forward-thinking industry with a stable outlook (databases-as-a-service), we have a tremendous challenge for you and a terrific team willing and able to support you through it
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How Compose uses Slack and Interviewed to automate blind-hiring(compose.io)
1 points by grayfox 10y ago|0 comments
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One Year After Ayahuasca(medium.com)
2 points by grayfox 10y ago|0 comments
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by grayfox 11y ago
Compose (IBM) | REMOTE (US, UK, CA) If you're looking to join a forward-thinking industry with a stable outlook (databases-as-a-service), we have a tremendous challenge for you and a terrific team willing and able to support you throug
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Silicon Valley After Ayahuasca(medium.com)
4 points by grayfox 11y ago|0 comments
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by grayfox 11y ago
Currently residing within Vancouver. We love it here, but we have accepted that it is not where we will be able to put roots down. My partner and I work remotely, we'll enjoy our time here then buy a home elsewhere... Like maybe Hawaii
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by grayfox 11y ago
Compose (IBM) | REMOTE (US, UK, CA) Developing software appeals to those who love to solve puzzles and apply their brain power -- and also to those, in our experience, who like working from home in their pyjamas. If you're looking to j
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Fizz, the tool we built to help us work remotely(compose.io)
14 points by grayfox 11y ago|4 comments
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by grayfox 11y ago
Fighting was the only thing... the only thing I was good at. (That made my day, stranger, thank you).
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by grayfox 11y ago
> It's a an experiment, and like all experiments we're still waiting for the data to come back. That, my friend, is the long and short of it. Lookin' for a job? Got a work-sample you could try out... :)
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by grayfox 11y ago
We've had no issues attracting excellent and talented people. Most of them would be considered "senior". You might be interested to hear that Juniors are the group most likely to be deterred by the sample. The (great) majorit
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by grayfox 11y ago
I'm glad you brought up the other side of things. If you were an applicant of such impressive, world renowned stature the answer would be: yes, (sir), you still need to go through the regular hiring process. It isn't an arbitrary
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by grayfox 11y ago
We were acquired by IBM last year. As we adjust to their HR systems, we have to limit our hiring range. Each region needs to have a "proxy" manager to take care of the employees within that region. As we had Canadians and folks fr
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by grayfox 11y ago
Indeed! Also, I believe I've been ousted as a Canadian. ... Fixed this... :)
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by grayfox 11y ago
You're correct! We recently moved out of the San Mateo office (sad) but still have space within San Fransisco. We need to update the map... Thanks for pointing that out.
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by grayfox 11y ago
A dude from Compose here, I'm currently helping out with hiring. If you'd like to know more about the process described in the article, we've recently blogged about it: https://www.compose.io/articles/com

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