Periscope Data's company blog covers SQL analytics, data warehouse comparisons, and engineering lessons such as moving from Heroku to Kubernetes.
HN links it mostly through the company's job postings in hiring threads, plus occasional engineering posts on data bugs.
Periscope Data | San Francisco | Full-Time | ONSITE | https://www.periscopedata.com/
Full Stack Engineer (Ruby, Golang, CoffeeScript, Java, Python)
Periscope is a data analysis tool for data analysts that allows them to type SQL queries and get charts really, really fast. Revenue has doubled twice in the last 6 months. We have gone from jumpstarting our car to hanging on as the car races up the hill.
- In your first day you'll ship new code to production.
- In your first week you'll ship at least one customer-facing feature.
- In your first month you'll write code at every level of the stack.
- In your first 6 months you'll rebuild a major piece of the Periscope stack.
More info: https://www.periscopedata.com/full-stack-engineer
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Marketing Coordinator
We’re looking for our second hire in marketing to help us scale lead generation 10x over the next year. Marketing at Periscope is very data-driven and you’ll help us prioritize metrics, run analyses, and creatively source and combine data sets for insights. Our popular SQL blog brings in a lot of business and our hundreds of customers love our product.
More info: https://www.periscopedata.com/marketing-coordinator
Join our team! hello@periscopedata.com
Hi Hacker News! So this is where the extra activity is from :) honored to be posted.
SqlPad was something I built to scratch my own itch and was sort of a self-challenge. I haven't done much with it lately, but a few users have contributed some additions back and have been helping with the project.
Just a heads up if you explore the code - I'm not a Node.js developer by trade and this is sort of a hobby for me as a SQL Server developer/DBA.
I'm flattered by the comments here. Really inspiring to get back to work on this.
Also wanted to add - If SqlPad isn't quite what you're looking for but want to visualize SQL results check out these other projects and solutions:
Metabase (http://www.metabase.com/)
Redash (https://github.com/getredash/redash)
Wagon (https://www.wagonhq.com/)
Periscope Data (https://www.periscopedata.com/)
Mode Analytics (https://modeanalytics.com/)
As soon as you begin accepting user data, all your code bugs, even those as simple as forgetting to collect some metadata you might need later, are data bugs. And to the specific point about serializing logic being considered harmful, I'm sure https://www.periscopedata.com/ would beg to differ!
Seriously, though, there's nothing wrong with using this for a presentation layer. Define a group of user-selectable client-side filters in a JSON constants document, which will have a much smaller "error surface" than defining custom filter functions. Just because it looks like JSON doesn't mean it necessarily needs to be serialized.
That said, there are a number of inefficiencies in the implementation. Certainly not production ready, but a great effort.
Periscope Data | San Francisco, ONSITE | https://www.periscopedata.com/
Full Stack Engineer (Ruby, Go, CoffeeScript): https://www.periscopedata.com/full-stack-engineer
Senior Product Manager: https://www.periscopedata.com/senior-product-manager
Periscope is the fastest, most powerful data analysis suite on the market. It's the platform of choice for professional analysts, who spend 5+ hours a day using the product.
We're growing revenue about 10X per year, while growing the team about 4X per year.
If you have a proven track record of delivering results and shipping great products, we would love to meet you!
Join our team of 45: hello@periscopedata.com
Periscope Data | San Francisco, ONSITE | https://www.periscopedata.com/
Full Stack Engineer - Any Level (Ruby, Go, CoffeeScript): https://www.periscopedata.com/full-stack-engineer Senior
Periscope is the fastest, most powerful data analysis suite on the market. It's the platform of choice for professional analysts, who spend 5+ hours a day using the product.
We're growing revenue about 10X per year, while growing the team about 4X per year.
If you have a proven track record of delivering results and shipping great products, we would love to meet you!
Join our team of 85: Email amanda@periscopedata.com
Periscope Data | San Francisco, ONSITE | https://www.periscopedata.com/
* Senior Full Stack Engineer (Ruby, Go, CoffeeScript): http://bit.ly/2iBwa6l
Periscope is the fastest, most powerful data analysis suite on the market. It's the platform of choice for professional analysts, who spend 5+ hours a day using the product. We're growing revenue about 10X per year, while growing the team about 4X per year.
If you have a proven track record of delivering results and shipping great products, we would love to meet you!
Join our team of 76: Email melanie@periscopedata.com