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Scalyr | San Francisco/San Mateo | REMOTE | Multiple Roles - UI/Software Engineer/SRE | Full Time | https://www.scalyr.com/careers/

Scalyr is a log management SaaS, a part of monitoring & observability stack. Our vision is "to be the leading source of community engagement on the use and impact of observability", and we have a compelling log management product that we are famous for! [store and search petabytes of data, blazing fast queries (sub 200ms) and high ingestion rates (TB/s)]. Scaly's technology stack is built from the ground up, optimizing it for speed and scalability. We are growing in terms of both data we host and customers!

If you are a frontend engineer (React, GraphQL) or a generalist software engineer who wants to be part of a hyper growth startup and want to work with talented engineers who challenge you, please reach out to us.

We are upgrading our infrastructure and seek the help of a DevOps engineer and thinker to transform our operations to a modern tech stack, learn from it and improve the product for our customers. We run on AWS.

We value transparency and collaboration.

If you are interested, please get in touch with Lakshmi - saasy_log=scalyr mail -s "Hire me" jobs@${saasy_log}.com

Office is in San Mateo close to caltrain station. We can consider remote post COVID too! We offer 100% employer paid medical benefits among other things! We value you and your family!

PS: If you use silver searcher or ripgrep or ack to grep through your code, you’ll like us.

I tried hard not to be sales person and replied to people who were looking for logging product. I understand where you are coming from though!

Full disclosure: Employee at Scalyr

May I suggest you try out Scalyr? Our trials are easy to set up. We are cost effective at large scale ingest, our searches are fast and power queries are super nice!

Have you tried Scalyr? I am an employee at Scalyr and been in the infra space for quite a while. I think our logging product is the best I've used personally. Searches are actually fast.

The fingerprint reader is not yet supported on 6th gen X1.I never tried to get the LTE modem working. Funnily, I didn't even realize that the slot existed for almost a year after purchase.

This is awesome! I am a frontend noob and I've been learning a whole lot of things last 4 weeks and got a Vue SPA with Cognito auth, AWS amplify, Quasar and Vuex. I don't like the output I see in the browser and it pisses me off really. I am yet to cover UX, CSS/Stylus/SCSS and I see a bunch of bundle size warnings that I've no idea how to fix. For people like me, this project would reduce the bootstrap time significantly. I see you plan to add support for Vue etc but man, you're building something very valuable. Kudos.

Matt,

I am not a US citizen but my wife is and I have been pestering her to apply to USDS for a project manager/business analyst position. We value the importance of work you are doing but we rarely see openings for her role. Sorry for posting this here but it would be awesome for her to at least chat with you folks. She has plenty of experience working with federal agencies.

I have a thinkpad X1 carbon and been running Fedora 30 beta for a month now. I am yet to see any issues in touchpad or stability. Gnome shell crashes every now and then but if they didn't notify me about it, I won't even know about it. S3 suspend works great and flicker free boot is a nice icing on the cake. I switched over from 2014 macbook pro and love the weight, keyboard and overall black finish with matte screen. I dual boot F30 and Windows 10. I don't boot up windows unless I have to do something in MS Office. The app ecosystem is worse than the hardware support for me. I don't have outlook or any of the MS products as native app (I use web version of O365 which works well). I miss a native app for Notion. Other than these, F30 has been amazing. I won't ever go back to Ubuntu on a laptop. Against, OS X, app ecosystem still lags but tolerable.

In the last few months, I have leaned more towards audio based learning but I have realized that personally audio is great for shorter content (less than 1 hr). After 1 hour, I get distracted because I feel like I could listen and do something else. Then when I pause and think what I got out of the last few mins of hearing, I realize I wasn't paying real attention. I also tried listening for 1 hour, taking a break and listening for another hour. I am unable to recollect what I listened last time while I have no problem recollecting material I read. For example, I am "reading" two books simultaneously now - one from kindle and another via audible. If you asked me what I learnt from the audible book,I would struggle to summarize. I am part of a book club and one of the women I see there has great notes on every book she has read. She was telling us how audiobooks aren't any good because to truly understand content, you need to pause, assimilate what you just read and process it (she writes it down). Audiobooks do not give that break. I usually ask Alexa to pause and resume but it plain sucks to do that.

We have talked to Velostrata and some other GCP partners. It's hard to assess their usefulness. Unfortunately, they don't have much of open source credibility. Picking by case studies seems like picking out a car by reading advertising material.

Your reasoning and the conclusion resonates a lot with my own findings for a project that we tried to bootstrap. GCP's GKE and Istio integration are becoming more compelling to consider them for containerized workloads. EKS isn't quite there. One of the things we are struggling with is finding a qualified partner who can help us build our new project on GCP. We don't have a mature infrastructure team and while we try to bootstrap one, we would like to rely on partners to help us move the needle. Even partners in GCP premier list don't have case studies of migrating monoliths to GCP. Most of them talk about GSuite migration which isn't quite the same. AWS wins this battle. They have far more mature partners with better track record and thought leadership. I wonder if you see this the same way. Maybe partnership is not crucial for you? Some insights from the community would help.

This might sound like piling on a specific class of people but from my observation (I lived in the valley for 5 years all the way from San Francisco to San Jose), young white people crave for a lifestyle that is completely urban and do not want to make a commute sacrifice. Several of my ex coworkers would see it beneath themselves to get on public transportation. The demographics of people in an office changes significantly as you travel south from San Francisco to San Jose. The healthy balance in terms of demographics seems to exist at places like Mountain View/Palo Alto. During my five years, I set my rent cost goal to be 2500$ per month (and I didn't want roommates). I moved to keep the rent a constant while my salary was increasing marginally year over year. I ended up at Milpitas after 5 years but it wasn't bad at all :). I did miss drinking with coworkers and socializing but instead I could focus on health (both physical and mental). Now I moved to east coast and could afford a nice home etc and my mortgage is still close to 2500$ mark in DC suburbs. My large point is - Nashville will become San Francisco because it will be filled with young people congregating in some spots whereas some neighborhood 20 mins from Nashville downtown will have no takers. In several ways, the problem is self inflicted.

Ok. I have to make a choice between driving 60 mins for 6 miles vs getting shot at Walmart :). I am joking but I knew already commute is a problem in India. Is work from home more prevalant there?

All these INR numbers are making me want to come back :). As much as I enjoy working here in the US, the cost of living etc pretty much takes most of the income. I still manage to save 30% of my income but it requires good level of discipline and actively avoiding anything I think is "luxurious" (not eating out much, doing household chores ourselves.). I make a decent high six figure salary and I am not in SV but in DC metro area (not that cheap compared to SV). In India, I could probably have a maid/help and offload few of the chores and lead a far more comfortable life than here. Sure, I won't be driving a BMW but at least I will be close to family saving the exact 30% but with more happiness being around culture I am more familiar with. I am fairly Americanized but the climate here is becoming more hostile. I do walk into stores preparing for some racial comments or worst case a mindless idiot going for his gun. I didn't know how much I would be making in India because I never ever worked there but looking at these numbers, the move is at least worth contemplating.

Prague is a beautiful city and they were generally friendly to me and didn't mind speaking English. Some don't and sign language helped when I traveled. But they knew I was a tourist (I was a brown Indian guy who is not exactly the type there ;)). One thing I found surprising for being an European city is how hard it is to find any kind of food past 9 PM. Maybe I picked a neighborhood like that to stay? Also, stores didn't bother following any sort of schedule :). Overall,I'd love to live in Prague and experience more of what the city has to offer. And the train ride from Germany to Prague is so awesome!

I live in USA but I am of Indian origin. My parents' apartment in India now has Fiber Internet with 80Mbps at 1000INR (15USD)/month. On my recent travel (Aug 2018), I had Jio and was working remotely. It is so cheap to get Jio. I had 0 issues and I was praising the Internet situation in India for the first time in the last decade. Seriously, good changes in Internet situation.

The top challenges for me right now to move back there are 1. Rampant corruption in state government offices (especially with land registrations, legal heir certificates) 2. Extreme levels of sanitation/drainage issues even in metros 3. Personal indiscipline of the people. There is now some transparency because of digital transformation/e-governance. I think in a decade, (1) and (2) will be addressed. It will take miracles to fix (3). Jio pretty much stepped up the competition and other providers are fighting hard to give good speeds. I am happy about indirect benefits of technology.

I think this is a sensible advice and the one I personally follow. I manage around 10 people and as much as I love to write code and be involved in everyday engineering, the real success measure for me is to see everyone succeeding in the team. This requires a personal sacrifice and picking left overs which aren't in the critical path. Initially, I tried to over compensate by putting more stricter requirements on writing code equal to doing people management but when I got more people, it just turned out exponentially harder. If you aren't able to make this sacrifice in a few months time, you should reevaluate and maybe take a different role. You'd do yourself and your team injustice if you focused more on yourself than the team.

A conflict of visions, Sapiens, Crime and Punishment and http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/alexandersolzhenits.... I've always been introspective but also was significantly less open minded than I imagined myself to be. These books opened me up to experience introspection in better ways. I think Solzhenitsyn's address is the one that really made a huge difference. My Russian boss pointed me to it :).

We at StackStorm now do a combination of SAAS Discourse (https://forum.stackstorm.com/) and Slack (~1200 members). Discourse allows newcomers to search for relevant issues and allows us to do async support well. With 3000 members in slack, a paid version would be unimaginable in terms of cost. Plus, even if we pay (which we do for the team itself), the search is unbelievably bad in slack. Discourse seems to be doing well for us so far. We'll know more in a few months now. BTW we also allow people to file bug reports in github. It's a lot of tooling around customer engagement and support but people like that they can hop on slack, get pointed to forum if the question they ask cannot be answered by larger community. Core engineers answer discourse questions and point people to github issues if there is a legit issue. Sometimes people ask support questions straight on github.

StackStorm developer here and I definitely am writing this as an engineer. We in fact use ansible for our own infra where we deploy a bunch of StackStorm nodes. Our CI CD pipeline, staging tests and packages promotion all are driven via StackStorm workflows. We also spin new environments on every merge commit to master (results in OS packages which are then deployed to a box) and have built sophisticated automation with StackStorm workflows. Every time I use Ansible, I cannot get over the fact that it is bash in Python. Our API driven approach, chatops, declarative when needed with workflows and ability to be imperative (write python code) for actions etc are things I really love. We are learning from all of the other tools ourselves but I also hope we are setting trends in workflow orchestration.

Well, as a H1B visa holder paying same taxes as citizens, I either need the country to provide me a path to citizenship or stop taxing me like citizens. I can go either ways. Your ancestors fought for taxation without representation. I come from a democracy too and yes my country is not as conducive as United States for starting businesses but I just won't be made feel inferior to citizens because I was born elsewhere. That is against the promise of the constitution especially when I live in continental United States. Also, seriously, if I can work indefinitely on a visa without citizenship, I am 100% happy to do that. There is a 6 year cap unless you express willingness to migrate or stay in home country for a year before getting another six years. So your government is disrupting my life in many ways that they don't to the citizens. It seems unfair.

You might want to take a look at https://github.com/StackStorm/st2 if you want python support, chatops, UI, a GUI editor for writing workflows and a strong community.

Disclaimer: I am a programmer at StackStorm. I'd be happy to help.

You'd never to go to a neurologist to get a ACL reconstruction. In other professions, specialization is seen more respectfully and also pretty vital. Whenever I interview with startups, I get a feeling they want "generalists" because they need to get the same amount of work without hiring a lot of people. I'd personally prefer specialists but are inquisitive enough to jump on random things and can move the boat without waiting for someone.

It doesn't say how many watts of power this machine would produce and what is the cost to produce per watt? It would be interesting to compare numbers and see if this machine would ever see mass production in next few decades.

StackStorm developer here!

Just to clarify, YAML is one way to write the workflow spec. Just like how YAML is way to write docker compose file. We picked YAML over JSON because it is less verbose and allows one to add comments which is pretty useful if someone is looking at a remediation workflow early in the AM. We do use YAQL expressions for some variable manipulation but that is not a YAML spec. A workflow is a collection of actions and actions can be written in almost any language (as a script) or python (first class actions). So you can think YAML workflow as a declarative spec rather than a programming language. Maybe that helps?

StackStorm developer here.

I've worked with multiple services in multiple teams where upstream fixes take a while and meanwhile devs and ops people get paged like crazy for a diagonized and remediable problem. Agreed that logrotate config needs to be fixed for this case but it is only a simple demo for auto-remediation. For years, Cassandra dead node replacement is a 6 step manual process. You'd think upstream should be fixed but unfortunately not. So StackStorm fills the gap between what is ideal and what is running in production. Usually, there is a gap. See http://docs.datastax.com/en/cassandra/2.0/cassandra/operatio... vs https://stackstorm.com/2015/09/22/auto-remediating-bad-hosts.... That is just another example.

StackStorm developer here! Don't be surprised if I turn up at your door tomorrow :).

https://github.com/rackerlabs/blueflood is a time series datastore with aggregation and rest APIs built on top of Cassandra. It's production ready and in fact used in production at Rackspace. Full disclaimer: I am a core contributor.

This blog post is interesting and it's good to see some numbers (one technician per 25,000 servers). Also, it touches upon one interesting aspect - "When do you automate a thing?". It would be interesting to know the actual metrics they use. Shameless plug: http://stackstorm.com/ is very similar to FBAR and is helping customers reap the benefits of automation. We share the vision and we are completely open source. Feedback is appreciated. (I am a full time developer with StackStorm.)

This was years ago but a google interviewer asked me a make a complete copy of a directed graph (i have to do cycle detection). I was given 45 mins total and I failed. I cursed myself for not being good enough. I haven't forgotten it yet.