OmniTI was a web operations consulting firm whose blog covered scalability, SaaS engineering, PostgreSQL and developer culture.
HN commenters mostly mention it in job postings for site reliability engineers and in news of the company's struggles and its cancelled Surge conference.
Fulton, MD or REMOTE
Site Reliability Engineer at OmniTI Computer Consulting
The OmniTI Ops team is a flexible and progressive group. We work closely with developers, DBAs, and client groups to help them manage availability and performance in the midst of constant changes. We are not risk averse; instead we strive to understand why things fail and understand the true impact of those failures, so that we can empower others. Collaboration is a cornerstone, and we understand that being friendly and outgoing are keys to making that work.
See http://omniti.com/is/hiring/site-reliability-engineer
OmniTI (omniti.com) - offices in Manhattan and Columbia, MD (remote ok for the right candidates)
We're a consultancy focusing on high scale web app design, ops support and the like, focusing on open source tools. We're growing and are hiring for a wide range of roles right now to try to keep up with client demand: front and back end dev roles, DBAs, PMs, and systems people. Full role descriptions are here: http://omniti.com/is/hiring
careers@ if you want to submit a resume or you can reach me directly if you have questions at mjackson@
what Google calls "SREs." Rather than explaining what it is, this guy's google groups post...
I liked OmniTI's description of a role akin to SRE and the progression through the web operations career path they identify: http://omniti.com/seeds/what-is-web-operations .
"This role is in no way fitting for failed developers, it is for developers/engineers that have outpaced their career path. One that has a deep understanding of how things work: a complete systemic view of general site architecture."
OmniTI - http://www.omniti.com/is/hiring - Fulton, MD/Remote
OmniTI is best known for providing full-stack solutions and housing some of the industry's most respected individuals and thought leaders.
We're looking to expand our web and site reliability engineer teams. It most certainly will be challenging but you'll be on one of the most talented teams you've ever worked with.
Contact us at careers@omniti.com.
It varies with the emphasis (front page or not) etc., here is some of the latest information I could find on super surges (some people reported over a million viewers):
http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/06/12/yahoo-buzz-traffic-the-slashdot-effect-squared/
Here's someone saying that dramatic swings can happen inside 60 seconds:
http://omniti.com/seeds/dissecting-todays-internet-traffic-spikes
It would help a bit. At the moment there's no indication at all of who is running this thing.
The only way I'd trust something like this is if someone stood to take a major blow to their reputation if it failed. Google, Amazon, AOL would be fine. A company that made a living doing high profile operations work (like http://omniti.com/ ) would be OK. An anonymous web page doesn't cut it.