Consequently, Continuent needs additional talented staff.
We are currently looking for a person who would be a good fit for our “Database Clustering Technical Sales & Support Engineer” position, in the US Pacific timezone.
If you know someone who would be a good fit for this role and our company’s culture, please send them our way.
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ScaleDB extends MySQL for high-velocity high-volume data,
enabling near real-time analytics across massive streams of data.
Like Hadoop, ScaleDB leverages a cluster of commodity machines
with low-cost spinning disks for storage, mitigating the typical
trade-offs between data fidelity and the volume of data and time
analyzed. NoSQL and Hadoop are excellent choices for unstructured
data, or data variety challenges. However, if your data is
structured time-series data, and generated at high-velocity and
high-volume, ScaleDB is the tool for you. On a nine-node cluster,
ScaleDB inserts millions of rows per second and queries up to
1000 times faster, more than enough speed for today’s most
demanding applications.
ResponsibilitiesLooking for C/C++ experience, ideally with
experience with database server internals. You will design and
implement a next generation database storage engine. You will
have ownership for one or more modules of the …
I have been working for a very large Australian website for over
six years and during this period have been fortunate enough to
hire many Infrastructure Operations Engineers that now work for
that company. I want to detail the evolution of the hiring
process and what I have driven it to over the last six
years.
How was I hired This is the interview process I went through at
my current company:
As MySQL is thriving and growing, we're looking for an experienced technical writer to join the MySQL documentation team. The documentation team is located in EMEA and in North America, and so you should be.
For this job, we need the best and most dedicated people around. You will be part of a geographically distributed documentation team responsible for the technical documentation of all MySQL products. Team members are expected to work independently, requiring discipline and excellent time-management skills as well as the technical facilities and experience to communicate across the Internet.
Candidates should be prepared to work intensively with our engineers and support personnel. The overall team is highly distributed across different geographies and time zones. Our source format is DocBook XML. We're not just writing documentation, but also handling publication, including maintenance of our toolset (XML, XSLT, …
[Read more]On the road again - FOSSAsia
It has been a few busy months until now. I have moved from Italy to Thailand, and the move has been my first priority, keeping me from attending FOSDEM and interacting with social media. Now I start catching my breath, and looking around for new events to attend. But before I get into this, let’s make a few things clear:
“Why can’t I find an MySQL DBAs or Developers?” This morning I got a message from a very perplexed Human Resources person on why their ads on Linkedin were not getting any results. Several such emails, calls, or messages make it to me each week and I would like take this opportunity to cover this subject. MySQL DBAs and Developers are out there but there are reasons why they are not interested in your job posting.
1. Provide details — “Exciting new position in rapidly growing start up in an expensive city and we want you to know how to program in every programming language, be a recent university graduate (hopefully PhD or higher), with ten years of experience but please be under twenty three years of age. Must prefer stock options and left over pizza crusts over a regular salary. And be flexible.” No, most ads are not quite that bad but several are very, very close.
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Bring me clients, please… pretty please!
When you first start out as a freelancer, your network is small. Without a steady stream of projects, the tendency is to reach for whatever you can find. Head shops & agencies build a brand, and ongoing relationships with firms. However a project with a middleman is a relationship with him or her, not the client directly. You lose control of a few very key things, such as fees, testimonials and payment terms.
Read: NYC technology startups are hiring
It’s all about the relationship, Luke
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