mace
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Comment · 10 years ago
I think a fair summary is "We had a few problems with PostgreSQL mostly due to our rapid growth. We rethought the problem and changed the way we use a relational database for large-scale storage and are now using MySQL as a dumb key-value store."
The conclusion reinforces this: "Postgres served us well in the early days of Uber, but we ran into significant problems scaling Postgres with our growth."
I read this a both endorsement of PostgreSQL as well as highlighting some of the problems that any large-scale use of it would run into.
Comment · 10 years ago
June (https://juneoven.com/) is hiring! | Full-time | SF
June is a team on a mission to transform the kitchen. Our first product is the June Intelligent Oven. A built-in camera and sensors makes June able to identify commonly cooked foods, recommend a cooking program and execute to perfection. With a touch screen, instant-on carbon fiber heating elements, advanced moulded insulation and a finely tuned cooking cavity, we’re bringing restaurant-level performance to the home.
We're looking for Software and Hardware engineers.
Comment · 11 years ago
June is hiring! — San Francisco, CA
We just came out of stealth and are looking for smart and creative software and hardware engineers to join us on our mission to bring innovation to the kitchen and home.
Specifically, we're looking for:
• Android UI Engineers
• Embedded Engineers
• Mechanical Product Design Engineers
• Hardware Engineers
• Server Engineers
Comment · 11 years ago
★★★ June is hiring! — San Francisco, CA ★★★
We just came out of stealth and are looking for smart and creative software and hardware engineers to join us on our mission to bring innovation to the kitchen and home. Specifically, we're looking for:
• Android UI Engineer
• Embedded Engineer
• Mechanical Product Design Engineer
• Hardware Engineer
• Server Engineer
Comment · 12 years ago
Agreed. I think this title is a bit flippant and I'm sure the 600M+ WhatsApp users don't care what the servers are running.
The important takeway is that FreeBSD and Erlang have worked really well for WhatsApp allowing them to grow their userbase insanely fast while still staying relatively small.