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Datto | Portland, OR | Linux Systems Engineer | FULL-TIME | ONSITE

Datto, the world’s leading provider of IT solutions delivered through managed service providers, is looking for a Senior Linux Systems Engineer to join a growing team. Datto provides data protection, business continuity, networking, business management, and file backup and sync products that empower and protect the clients of our 14,000+ partners. We're headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut and have 22 offices worldwide.

Tech stack: AWS, Puppet, Linux, Python, opportunity to work with Redis and Kafka

Apply here: https://boards.greenhouse.io/datto/jobs/1594392

Email me if you want to chat about it: harper.henn at datto.com

Datto | Portland, OR | Linux Systems Engineer | FULL-TIME | ONSITE

Datto, the world’s leading provider of IT solutions delivered through managed service providers, is looking for a Senior Linux Systems Engineer to join a growing team. Datto provides data protection, business continuity, networking, business management, and file backup and sync products that empower and protect the clients of our 14,000+ partners. We're headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut and have 22 offices worldwide.

Tech stack: AWS, Puppet, Linux, Python, opportunity to work with Redis and Kafka

Apply here: https://boards.greenhouse.io/datto/jobs/1212012

Email me if you want to chat about it: harper.henn at datto.com

LegitScript | Portland, OR | ONSITE, FULL-TIME | DevOps Engineer

http://www.legitscript.com

LegitScript, one of the Top 100 Workplaces in Oregon, is seeking a senior level DevOps Engineer to join our team at our Portland, Oregon-based headquarters. We help companies of all sizes keep their services legal and safe for consumers. We share our expertise about high-risk online activity to empower businesses, governments, and consumers to make incremental changes that will result in a secure, more transparent Internet.

Tools we use include: Puppet/Chef, GitHub, Jenkins, MySQL/Postgres, AWS, Linux

Please see our careers page for the full posting and benefits package: https://www.legitscript.com/careers/

Good point. I think finding a mentor will need to happen organically (if it does at all). I'm glad that there are even a few people right here who actively mentor other people and find it meaningful - I think I would, too (which means I'll be being selfish again on the opposite side of it...)

Did it change how you feel about interacting with people in general?

This is the first time I've heard of "rejection therapy". It interests me but maybe it approaches the problem in a destructive/negative way (that is, keep doing something uncomfortable until it isn't)? I've learned to deal with rejection by reminding myself that people have their own problems and embarrassing histories; they aren't really that different from me. Thinking about it in a humanistic way like that, instead of a negative/destructive way, lets me get over things immediately.

Who makes the decision about data retention in these cases? Do they plan with breaches in mind? Can anyone who works in that position shed some light on this?

Last spring I received a notice in the mail from a university I had been accepted to four years ago, but did not attend, that my personal information was exposed in a data breach just like this one. The free year of credit monitoring isn't comforting. Why on earth is sensitive information like that kept? The likelihood of people being affected just goes up.

Would you recommend those books to someone who is just familiar with the Linux command line and knows the basics of C? I want to start understanding the system I use everyday, in depth, but am not sure where to start.

It never occurred to me how perfect programming languages are for poetry. You have all these extra characters and whitespace to change how a piece of text feels or reads, and it becomes a visual experience too, like looking at art. Are there other program-poems people should look at?

The only thing I'd seen like this before was "Sunrise, Sunset" written in PHP. I know these things aren't new for many of you but I keep being surprised by the creativity I find.

I'm looking at the 'Puma' section in Jesse Storimer's book "Working With TCP Sockets" and that seems to be the general idea behind it... uses a thread pool for concurrency, monitors persistent connections with an evented reactor.

I'm not affiliated with the author, but this was such a nice book to get an intro to webservers and their architectures/tradeoffs from.

Really fueled my love of sockets :)

What did you use for profiling? Their newrelic add-on?

Did you see the interview that USA Today conducted with NSA whistleblowers Thomas Drake and William Binney when Snowden's leaks were first published? They specifically addressed the myth that there are effective mechanisms in place to report and rectify misconduct. There are none, and these very intelligent, very principled men agreed that Snowden took the correct course of action in exposing all of this.

As dissenters within the agency, they have a more accurate idea about how all of this works in practice than nearly anyone else.

The idea that being a "dumb" programmer helps with debugging reminds me of a tactic I see people use on StackOverflow. Some programmer will post a problem they're having, and lots of ultimately unhelpful solutions will be suggested until someone else asks "what are you trying to accomplish?" and then it's suddenly made clear that the programmer's problem was being approached in the wrong way.

I've seen this happen so many times on SO, with good results, that it's become the way I want to think about other problems in life.

There are probably a lot of people who do think that the US is close to some kind of totalitarianism, but when speaking about it they might add a disclaimer because otherwise they're grilled by others saying "you have no idea what totalitarianism is, look at how life was in this other country. You're being naive and over-dramatic, etc".

The problem with that view is that such a state will never look exactly the same as it did in another country in another time. As long as we're using another country's situation and behavior as a strict metric for what totalitarianism/fascism/etc "actually" is, some serious problems will fly by with too little attention given.

Have you seen the Lisp resources on Paul Graham's website? The Lisp FAQ (http://paulgraham.com/lispfaq1.html) answered a lot of my own questions. I've been drawn towards learning lisp for some time too (because it just seems so... different), and this week I finally installed the Clisp implementation and worked through the two online chapters of PG's ANSI Common Lisp book. I wish more programming texts were that clear and fast-paced. The lisp essays are engaging too.

I also wish I had more reasons to use/learn lisp. Everything I do is better suited to another language, it seems like.