The engineering blog of AppNeta, a performance monitoring company, covering web speed, request queueing, S3 costs and hardware testing.
HN mostly sees it in AppNeta's own hiring posts and employee comments promoting TraceView and its use of PhantomJS for synthetic monitoring.
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## AppNeta - Providence, RI and Boston, MA
## application performance monitoring startup seeks engineers interested
## in making the web faster
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AppNeta is an application performance company that strives to elegantly answer questions about performance that developers and users face each day. We make TraceView, which enables distributed tracing (like X-Trace, Google Dapper, or Twitter Zipkin) for all major web servers, frameworks, languages, and browsers, and provide a service that collects and analyzes that data to provide beautiful charts, graphs, heatmaps, and request detail that help our customers better understand their application performance in real time.
We are currently looking for full-stack and backend-focused engineers who are interested in building innovative performance tools and helping us scale to meet our ever-increasing faucet of customer traffic -- we currently process tens of thousands of events per second. Our frontend is built with D3.js and Angular, and our backend is almost entirely Python, a bit of C++, MySQL, RabbitMQ, EC2, DynamoDB, Google BigQuery, S3, SQS, Hadoop, Celery, SQLAlchemy, etc.
We sit atop mountains of data and strive to provide intelligent, actionable insights for our customers about the performance of their app's code & servers. Processing & visualizing it all at scale is a big challenge, and we’re looking for talented engineers to help us. We're especially interested in engineers with experience dealing…
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--ANALYTICS
Snowplow (https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow)
Segment.io (http://segment.io)
--CRM
Close.io (http://close.io),
Streak (http://www.streak.com/)
Base (http://getbase.com)
--SALES
ElasticSales (https://elasticsales.com/)
--CUSTOMER SERVICE
Metaverse Mod Squad (http://metaversemodsquad.com/)
--DATA
Factual (http://www.factual.com/)
--DATABASE
Titan (http://thinkaurelius.com/)
Tinkerpop (http://www.tinkerpop.com/)
Bulbs (http://bulbflow.com)
Datomic (http://datomic.com)
--LOG MONITORING
Logstash (http://logstash.net)
Lumberjack (https://github.com/jordansissel/lumberjack)
Fluentd (http://fluentd.org),
Flume (https://github.com/cloudera/flume)
Kafka (http://sna-projects.com/kafka/)
Scribe (https://github.com/facebook/scribe/)
--ACCOUNTING/INVOICING
Harvest (http://www.getharvest.com/)
Ballpark (http://www.getballpark.com/)
PaySimple (http://paysimple.com/)
AcceptPay (http://acceptpay.com)
FreshBooks (http://www.freshbooks.com/)
FreeAgent (http://www.freeagent.com/)
Blinksale (http://www.blinksale.com/)
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Balanced Payements (https://www.balancedpayments.com/)
Dwolla (https://www.dwolla.com/)
-- BANKING
Simple (http://simple.com)
--PHONE/PBX/SMS
Plivo (http://plivo.com/)
Tropo (https://www.tropo.com/)
Twillo (http://www.twilio.com/)
PhoneBooth (http://www.phonebooth.com/)
-- PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Orchestra (http://www.orchestra.com/)
-- RECOMMENDATION…
AppNeta | ONSITE | Full-time | Full-stack developers | Vancouver, BC
AppNeta is the leader in proactive end-user performance monitoring solutions built for the distributed enterprise. With AppNeta, IT and Network Ops teams can assure continual and exceptional delivery of business-critical applications. AppNeta’s SaaS-based solutions give IT teams essential application and network performance data, allowing them to continuously monitor user experience across any application, network, data center or cloud.
We are looking for a talented full-stack web developer to help drive the evolution of AppNeta's cloud-based web application. Our ideal candidate is a collaborative, pragmatic self-starter who excels at learning, planning, teaching, and executing in a fast-paced environment. You thrive on positive interactions with team members, and appreciate that there is much more to being a great developer these days than just writing code.
Tech we use: Java, Python, Docker, ReactJs, Redux, AWS, Elasticsearch (+ much more)
Full Job Description (Apply here!): https://grnh.se/wvm8pt1
Company website: https://www.appneta.com/
AppNeta | Full-Stack Developer, Operations Engineer, Test Automation Engineer, Product Manager | Vancouver, Canada | https://www.appneta.com/
AppNeta is a fast-growing, international technology startup that has achieved 100% year-over-year sales growth and is poised to take advantage of the massive performance monitoring marketplace sized by Gartner as $3.5B in 2017. AppNeta has been named to the Inc. 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies list four years running, and has won numerous awards in the Boston market, including BBJ’s Best Places to Work and BostInno’s Coolest Companies.
All Positions: http://grnh.se/n7iu5g1
* Full-Stack Developer ( http://grnh.se/e1k3s21 ): JavaScript, React, NPM, gulp.js, Browserify, Ember.js
* Operations Engineer ( http://grnh.se/uqf36d1 ): AWS, Chef, Consul, Packer, Linux
* Test Automation Engineer ( http://grnh.se/uml3wd1 ): Java, Python, Selenium, bash, Git
* Product Manager ( http://grnh.se/67evbl1 )
Disclaimer: URLs include referral IDs for a referral bonus, you are welcome to strip the ID out if you prefer.
AppNeta
Full-Stack Developer, Operations Engineer, Test Automation Engineer, Product Manager
Vancouver, Canada
https://www.appneta.com/
AppNeta is a fast-growing, international technology startup that has achieved 100% year-over-year sales growth and is poised to take advantage of the massive performance monitoring marketplace sized by Gartner as $3.5B in 2017. AppNeta has been named to the Inc. 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies list four years running, and has won numerous awards in the Boston market, including BBJ’s Best Places to Work and BostInno’s Coolest Companies.
All Positions: http://grnh.se/q10oic1
* Full-Stack Developer ( http://grnh.se/7uefhc1 ): JavaScript, React, NPM, gulp.js, Browserify, Ember.js
* Operations Engineer ( http://grnh.se/qhb87n1 ): AWS, Chef, Consul, Packer, Linux
* Test Automation Engineer ( http://grnh.se/x2qnmu1 ): Java, Python, Selenium, bash, Git
* Product Manager ( http://grnh.se/6dwrfx1 )
Disclaimer: URLs include referral IDs for a referral bonus, you are welcome to strip the ID out if you prefer.
AppNeta (htts://appneta.com) | Boston MA, Providence RI, Vancouver BC | devjobs@appneta.com
AppNeta provides a SaaS platform for monitoring application performance. We get to make software for people like us (engineers), that focuses on optimization and performance, by analyzing and visualizing huge amounts of data.
It's a lot of fun--and our customers (some of whom are on this thread) love it too.
We're growing quickly which means there are a number of openings right now in development, QA, engineering management, technical support, and technical sales: http://www.appneta.com/about/careers/