fduran

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http://fduran.com , email on web site.

- Founder, SadServers.com

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Comment · 2 days ago
SadServers | Software Engineer | REMOTE (Canada) | Part-time or Contract | $55 - $75/hr | https://sadservers.com

I'm the founder of SadServers, a SaaS that provides hands-on challenges for Linux & DevOps/SRE engineers and assessments for hiring teams. It was launched (and quickly broken) here on HN four years ago and we've been growing steadily since then (about to pass 1M VMs served).

Besides training and interviewing, companies use our platform to evaluate and/or train their SRE AI agents. I'm looking for a software engineer who can develop this offering, collaborating with customers and working on projects like our own benchmarking, see https://srebattle.com/ (WIP) for example. Our stack is Django REST (backend), Python (runners), Node/React/Vite (website).

Please email [email protected] with subject "SRE AI Developer". The hiring process for selected applicants is two steps: one video call and one paid mini-project.

Comment · 1 month ago
Floci works well, we started using it at SadServers for our AWS cli scenarios :-)
Comment · 2 months ago
Comment · 2 months ago
Are the courses meant only for personal consumption or can/will they be offered to other people? (for ex I have a Linux/DevOps training & assessment platform)
Comment · 4 months ago
Comment · 6 months ago
Fedora may be becoming the default for desktops, not for servers (Debian possibly the default for servers).
Comment · 6 months ago
Yes, the website is for prospective (and current) clients.

A small annoyance in startup circles is getting feedback about my website front page along the lines of "I didn't understand your hero, everybody should understand in one sentence what you do". Well, no, my clients will self-select as in not everybody needs to understand what "troubleshooting servers" or "devops" is :-)

Comment · 6 months ago
There is def some luck involved, as in you don't know beforehand what's going to be successful.

"You find a problem in a niche, say accounting for plumbers, and build for that, then you just go and market to these people". It's way better to work on something you are familiar with and you like.

Comment · 6 months ago
They have saved _more_ than two hours per dev and week. There's a compound factor and now code can be more reliable (less outages or emergencies fixing bugs) etc. Also having a sane working environment helps engineers not quitting, which is very expensive if they are replaced.
Comment · 7 months ago
Nice, this is like SadServers with a twist, excellent :-)
Comment · 7 months ago
Suerte! Unrelated, growing up in Spain it always baffled me that identification was based on a photo on your DNI. Stories of siblings or even friends that had a passing resemblance to each other sharing DNIs was a common story.
Comment · 9 months ago
Comment · 11 months ago
hello, thanks for the feedback. Just deployed a new image that only checks for the objective, not at what docker network somebody uses.

It is hard to have a checker that eliminates both false positives and false negatives in general, but we always try to minimize false negatives and we failed initially here.

Comment · 11 months ago
Hello, SadServers guy here.

We have scenarios running on k8s, both on single VMs (the ones you can see in the scenario list) and we also have a beta/PoC k8s cluster where we currently run a couple of scenarios as single pod (a docker container) or as a full system (the "kubernetes playgrounds", which is kind of hidden while we test it).

Is this what you were wondering? we do have pending to introduce podman scenarios as well

Comment · 11 months ago
Hello, creator here. Have you checked your dashboard? otherwise please contact us (email or form in the website) and we'll be happy to help

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