Cloudcraft | Senior Software Engineer | New York (NYC) | REMOTE, FULL-TIME or CONTRACTOR https://cloudcraft.co
We're looking for full-stack Senior Software Engineers with modern JavaScript and React experience.
Cloudcraft provides tools for software developers, currently focusing on helping teams work with AWS. Join our small, 100% remote, engineering team and you will have the chance to make a big impact and take ownership of projects and your own work.
Our ideal candidate is self-motivated, has excellent written and verbal communication skills, is interested in UX and has a sense of design, and is always looking to improve and learn. Previous experience with AWS services, graphics programming (including games) or SVG rendering, contributing to open source or personal github projects and any additional programming languages are a big plus.
Our stack consists of JavaScript (100% ES6+), with React on the frontend and Node.js on the backend and literally every single AWS service due to our product's unique nature. You'll have the opportunity for a lot of learning and experimenting on the job!
We're bootstrapped, profitable and growing. Competitive salary and serious about work-life balance. Work from anywhere in the world. To apply please email [email protected] with your resume or any links you'd like us to check out, and include "HN - Cloudcraft" in the subject line. No recruiters, please.
Cloudcraft | Senior Software Engineer | New York (NYC) | REMOTE, FULL-TIME or CONTRACT https://cloudcraft.co
We're looking for Senior Software Engineers with significant JavaScript and React experience, preferably full-stack.
At Cloudcraft we provide tools for software development teams, currently focusing on products that help teams working with AWS. Join our small, 100% remote, product engineering team and you'll have the chance to make a big impact and take significant ownership of our software and your own work.
Today our stack consists of JavaScript (100% ES6+), with React on the frontend and Node.js on the backend, PostgreSQL, Redis, Ansible, and literally every single AWS service due to our product's unique nature. You'll be doing a lot of learning and experimenting on the job!
Our ideal candidate is self-motived, has excellent written and verbal communication skills, is interested in UX and has a sense of aesthetics, and is always looking to improve and learn. Experience with AWS services, graphics programming or SVG rendering, existing contributions to open source or personal github projects are a huge plus.
We're bootstrapped, profitable and growing. Competitive salary and serious about work-life balance.
To apply, please email [email protected], include "HN - Cloudcraft" in the subject line. No recruiters, please.
You should still use CSS and general programming best practices even if you define your styles in JS. For me, the big win is that I get access to proper variables, constants, dead code elimination, minification, template strings, destructuring, spreads, real computed values etc. out of the box and in an language I'm very familiar with as a programmer. That it eliminates half the build toolchain is also a plus.
I read it as: commenters raised a bazillion legit questions that we had not necessarily considered (unknown unknowns), and now the whole endeavor seems more risky and the TCO questionable. Let's instead gradually re-architect our application, so it fits better in the cloud, which also happens to align with what most of our enterprise customers are going to need anyway.
EFS is pretty great. But for our use case there are a few drawbacks:
1. It doesn't scale to the size we need for all repositories, so we still need sharding.
2. It is expensive, $300/TB-month
3. You're still sending all traffic over the network, we prefer the latency of local storage we can achieve by developing Gitaly https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitaly
Why develop Gitaly instead of using consensus (etcd, zookeeper, etc.) for writes to fast storage like ssds and the normal git binary? As far as I can tell it's adding a lot of complexity by caching high level RPC calls but still doesn't really address multi-master read after write consistency or coordination.
It's still pretty apt, the reason the non-government customers are in GovCloud is almost always because their customers are in the government. For example, if you want to sell a service to US government departments, you'll find it much easier to do so if you have a presence in GovCloud yourself.
Thanks, somehow never saw this. I guess this can replace the scripts from the "Practical Deep Learning" series for me then. I'll just use the vanilla Amazon Deep Learning AMI + a p2 instance :)
Quick Heads up in case anyone wants to do the same. The only European region that supports p2 at the moment is Ireland (I tried Frankfurt at first).
Hi fellow NY SaaS developer :) I ran a similar report for our year end books, and it's amazing the amount of SaaS it takes to run a SaaS. Or put another way, the incredible ecosystem now available that allows you to focus on your core business.
I don't see any third party Stripe dunning service, did you build something similar yourself? Otherwise it might be worth looking into, it's one of those things that pays itself back in no time.
For anyone else looking into recurring billing I'd highly recommend Chargebee (not affiliated at all).
We've tried a few different solutions and were a little apprehensive at first because it looked a bit clunky but it's actually one of the best bits of software I've used. You don't realise the number of features a subscription billing platform needs until you use something like chargebee and discover how wonderful it is to have someone do it all for you. What's really great is before changing anything they give you a pop up showing what's going to be billed now, what will happen in the future etc. We used stripe before switching and I was a nervous wreck before ever pushing any buttons.
My co-founder and I were saying just the other day that we think it's one of the best investments we've made as a company.
Glad to have helped! I discovered them when trying to find a solution for the insane EU Vat regulations (which they handle gracefully).
We've been with them through a big few tasks now (like when they added Xero integration - which is also an amazing feature) and if there's any confusion with mapping data or whatever they'll always jump on a video call to make sure everyone is 100% clear on what's going on.
The Big Dig was one of the "cost-plus" projects mentioned in the article. The contract was for a guaranteed 7% profit on top of costs for design and construction. Is it any wonder that the construction company has zero incentive to do it efficiently or reduce costs! Overruns only bring benefits (more work, paid for by the state), and no downsides.
Another industry that loves their cost-plus projects is interestingly the traditional rocket launching business. Boeing and friends has for decades gotten used to massive cost-plus project contracts from the government for their launches, and is now feeling the pain of having to start to compete with Space X that operates at a magnitude or more efficiently and continues to drive down the price despite already being the cheapest.
"Not only does SAK say that the system may reduce the labor force -- for instance by tempting mothers of small children or those close to retirement to take more time off"
As long as the unemployment rate is > 0, that sounds like a net benefit for UBI. Someone else who isn't at the same life stage can then fill the freed position. You would only think this is a bad thing if you see workforce participation as the end-goal in itself, while all signs point towards massive societal upheaval due to automation without something like UBI.
We're looking for full-stack Senior Software Engineers with modern JavaScript and React experience.
Cloudcraft provides tools for software developers, currently focusing on helping teams work with AWS. Join our small, 100% remote, engineering team and you will have the chance to make a big impact and take ownership of projects and your own work.
Our ideal candidate is self-motivated, has excellent written and verbal communication skills, is interested in UX and has a sense of design, and is always looking to improve and learn. Previous experience with AWS services, graphics programming (including games) or SVG rendering, contributing to open source or personal github projects and any additional programming languages are a big plus.
Our stack consists of JavaScript (100% ES6+), with React on the frontend and Node.js on the backend and literally every single AWS service due to our product's unique nature. You'll have the opportunity for a lot of learning and experimenting on the job!
We're bootstrapped, profitable and growing. Competitive salary and serious about work-life balance. Work from anywhere in the world. To apply please email [email protected] with your resume or any links you'd like us to check out, and include "HN - Cloudcraft" in the subject line. No recruiters, please.