Company blog of VividCortex, a database monitoring SaaS firm, covering MySQL performance, Go programming, and observability.
HN links it mostly through the company's job postings. One commenter also cites its article arguing that schemaless databases don't exist.
VividCortex, Inc. (remote, Charlottesville, VA)
About Us: Our products help our customers measure, analyze and understand system behavior at a very deep level. There are good tools in the application and network layers, but usable tools for servers and databases are practically nonexistent. We’re fixing that, focusing first on tools for MySQL.
DevOps Brainiac
Our backend systems and infrastructure are all written in Go (it’s awesome). We are ramping up to handle a jaw-dropping amount of incoming data. Data storage involves MySQL, Cassandra and other storage technologies in a fault-tolerant, distributed environment. We're looking for someone who can switch in and out of a couple of developer and sysops roles -- writing some server software, setting up some machines, whipping up some Chef recipes, and so on. We're a small team, so the real job description is "we need another backend/infrastructure engineer."
Front End Brainiac
The web app is backed by PHP and Symfony2, and fronted by a lot of JavaScript, using up-to-date technologies and frameworks. There's a lot of API interaction from JavaScript, and a complex user interface that's key for making our customers rave about the experience, not just the technology. We'd love to find someone who can hop back and forth between the PHP, D3, Angular, etc., and it's even better if they've got some design sensibilities and can help shape the product's features and functionality too. If you've got the latter skillset, then the PHP…
The tech talent shortage is a lie when you don't know what tech talent actually looks like. It also doesn't exist nearly as strong as it does in SV. Remote is a solution, but not everyone knows how to run a company with remote employees.
> And therein lies the problem: The real shortage isn’t of talented people; it’s of employers (and, by implication, society) who are willing or able to nurture talented people.
When everyone has a runway of 18 months, spending the time and money to nurture talented people isn't feasible whatsoever. You need productive people on day 1.
> Despite the tech industry’s propensity to hire people of privilege, research shows that people with different backgrounds are no less capable or successful as software engineers than those from privileged circles. And there are strong bottom-line arguments for a more diverse workplace.
Yet, the author's company is full of white males in their 20's and 30's...[0] It sounds like the author wants other people, with other capital to invest in the hard part of what he's suggesting to be solved.
For the record, Google brings in 1,500 interns per year. That's a pretty significant investment in talented people who many not necessarily be productive...(hint: they take a lot of Stanford CS undergrads) of which many will eventually take full time jobs there when they graduate. I've tried to hire these people and they are extremely difficult to attract when the alternative is a cushy job at Google.
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VividCortex is hiring! REMOTE SRE |Front End (AngularJS) | Back End (Go) | Application Security Engineer
We're based in Charlottesville, VA. Remote work is available in the US or in Uruguay/ Argentina.
Contact us directly at jobs@vividcortex.com, or learn more and apply at https://www.vividcortex.com/about-us/careers/
VividCortex's mission is to promote the mastery of data-driven performance optimization. Our SaaS product is the best way to improve your database performance, efficiency, and uptime, providing deep insights into production database workload and query performance.
Our team has a list of big-name clients and is growing quickly! We're NEA funded and growing front end, back end, and site reliability/operations (that's our most pressing need at the moment!). The engineering team is made up of passionate, clever problem solvers that have a lot of autonomy to explore solutions and fail fast. We're not wedded to particular methodologies or deadlines - we're top-notch collaborators and get things done!
Our process is high-touch and conversational. You'll have calls with a couple of team members, and a personality assessment. We are truly serious about finding the best fit for you to maximize your opportunities to learn and grow here.
https://github.com/VividCortex
VividCortex | Charlottesville, VA | INTERNS, ONSITE | https://www.vividcortex.com/
Local (Charlottesville area) candidates only, please!
VividCortex is the best way to see what production database systems are doing. Our database monitoring platform is used by major companies like King, GitHub, DigitalOcean, and Etsy to monitor their MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Redis servers.
We're looking for interns to join our young, lean, energetic company with a great get-it-done culture.
Our technology stack consists of AWS, Kafka, MySQL, and Go on the backend; Symfony, AngularJS, and D3 on the frontend. Our exciting technical challenges include high-performance database protocol decoding, statistical anomaly detection, adaptive fault detection, time series storage, and stream processing.
Interested? Please contact me at preetam [at] vividcortex.com!
VividCortex | Database Monitoring SaaS | Go Devs and SRE | Virginia, USA, and Remote (EST schedule)
VividCortex is the best way to improve your database performance, efficiency, and uptime by providing deep insights into production database workload and query performance. Our customer list is growing, we're well-funded, and we're looking for a lead SRE and backend engineers to help us grow. We have an incredible, empowered engineering team, and we get to solve tough, interesting problems every day.
We take hiring seriously, so our process involves several phone interviews, a personality assessment (to help us understand how we'd best work together) and an in-person interview if possible.
Learn more on our website: https://www.vividcortex.com/about-us/careers/
Contact our team directly at jobs@vividcortex.com
Ouch, this smells like a 2019 reenactment of the MongoDB disaster that rightfully burned a generation of Devs and Ops.
I‘ll leave this here for posterity:
https://www.vividcortex.com/blog/2015/02/24/schemaless-databases-dont-exist/
— Schemaless Databases Don‘t Exist