al_james

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Comment · 6 months ago
This is very interesting! I agree about the operational complexity of many systems, cough Kubernetes.

For most systems, state storage is the toughest problem, have you considered adding some form of storage layer over the top or would you recommend another solution that allows all the workloads to share state?

Comment · 1 year ago
Cant even login via the AWS access portal.
Comment · 1 year ago
Goodfit.io | https://www.goodfit.io/ | Senior Software Engineer (Typescript) | REMOTE UK - Occasional onsite (<once a month) | Full-Time

We work with some of the hottest and highest grown B2B companies in the market, to help them understand their target market and reach potential clients at the right time with the right message. Our platform takes data from hundreds of sources across the internet, and combines it into a real-time and constantly updated view of each opportunity our clients monitor. We process a lot of data to do this, and utilise best-in-class data processing technologies to do this at scale, robustly and efficiently.

What we are after: - Experience in resilient data driven applications in a Serverless environment and data engineering using modern tools - Knowledge of Typescript, Node JS, the AWS ecosystem and SQL (Postgres / Redshift) - Ideally experience in DBT + SQL data pipelines - Comfortable in a small remove first team, looking for ownership and wants to work with an exec team with a track record of growing successful startups. Stack: Typescript, Serverless, React, AWS, Redshift, Postgres, SQL, DBT

Read more: https://www.goodfit.io/jobs/senior-software-developer Ping us to apply: hello <at> goodfit.io

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Goodfit.io | https://www.goodfit.io/ | Senior Software Engineer (Typescript) | REMOTE (UK + EU CET) | Full-Time

We work with some of the hottest and highest grown B2B companies in the market, to help them understand their target market and reach potential clients at the right time with the right message. Our platform takes data from hundreds of sources across the internet, and combines it into a real-time and constantly updated view of each opportunity our clients monitor. We process a lot of data to do this, and utilise best-in-class data processing technologies to do this at scale, robustly and efficiently.

What we are after: - Experience in resilient data driven applications in a Serverless environment and data engineering using modern tools - Knowledge of Typescript, Node JS, the AWS ecosystem and SQL (Postgres / Redshift) - Ideally experience in DBT + SQL data pipelines - Comfortable in a small remove first team, looking for ownership and wants to work with an exec team with a track record of growing successful startups. Stack: Typescript, Serverless, React, AWS, Redshift, Postgres, SQL, DBT

Read more: https://www.goodfit.io/jobs/senior-software-developer Ping me to apply: al <at> goodfit.io

Comment · 3 years ago
A friend set up https://textareaplease.com/ which I keep coming back to. Useful to have ability to eval JavaScript on the text too.
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Looks powerful. You mention the CRDT is a WAL, won't it grow indefinitely?
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