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Mave83··on Ask HN: WFH – will I be outsourced?
We from croit.io hire worldwide with work from everywhere. Since COVID-19 we see a huge increase in salaries of usually low labor cost countries. It's still cheaper, but there are reasons to get more expensive employees as well.

For example we have a hard time to find Linux System Administrators / DevOps that want to support our global customer base. We even need to get more US engineers onboard to fulfil requirements of large companies or governmental customers.

What you can expect, is a way more competitive environment in the future. We made quite good experience with our stuff and it brings a lot of value into a company to have a team with total different ways of thinking and viewing things. Just don't worry, be flexible, learn everyday, keep yourself ahead of others and you wont have to fear to be jobless. But if you are lazy, under average skilled and unflexible, prepare your self to get in trouble some day in the future.

Mave83··on Ask HN: WFH – will I be outsourced?
It's easy to find programmers, it's way harder to find system engineers, dev ops or similar.
Mave83··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2022)
croit.io | Ceph Storage Engineer's / Administrators / CEPH consultants / Developers | REMOTE | Part time, Full time, Self employed, whatever :)

We from croit help anyone to get access to modern storage technology. For that reason we developed a solution that helps maintaining the beast. To further tame our open source technology core, we are looking for excellent Linux system administrators, Ceph Storage Engineers, Consultants and Golang or C++ Software developers.

If you are interested in a highly customer oriented environment with great colleagues and a 5 years young company with a worldwide customer base, please send us a mail at jobs@croit.io.

Mave83··on Ask HN: Companies hiring for a 4-day workweek?
At croit.io you can decide how much time you wanna work and change that whenever you need. It's therefore more of a free time schedule system and not a fixed 4 days.
Mave83··on Tax the Land
In Germany, the major problem is buerocracy. There are so many rules, that changing land use or getting better allowance simply takes centuries.

It's sometimes that absurde, that nearby lots have 3 times the building capacity.

We already have a land tax called "Grundsteuer", but it's useless in the way it is.

Mave83··on Ask HN: Is open source ruining your job satisfaction too?
Here at croit.io our devs solve real problems and can not just glue together parts. Of course we do use a lot of them, but the major part is R&D. In fact, we have crazy hard topics to solve where most devs come to their limits. If you are looking for a interesting job and have the right skills, send us your CV.
Mave83··on Ask HN: Company wants to isolate corporate network from the Internet
Isolating the network does increase the security while reducing the attack surface. But without good usable internet access, it's harder to be productive as an employee. Therefore efficiency of the workforce will be lowered.

Depending on your company size, there are ways to achieve relatively high security. However, no system is secure enough and everything can be hacked at some point if there is enough interest in it.

Mave83··on Our vision for location-independent salaries at Buffer
Why does it make sense to pay different per location?

Because you should pay equal. If you just use the same number on the payslip, some get more than others. It's like with currency. There is no reason to pay everyone 10k of their local currency, as that won't make sense. But paying 10k of the same makes none as well as for some this means they can have butlers, and other only get a bed under the next bridge.

Payment should be equal in Terms of living standard. Otherwise they are not equal.

Mave83··on AWS S3: Sometimes you should press the $100k button
Just avoid the cloud. You get a Ceph storage with the performance of Amazon S3 at the price point of Amazon S3 Glacier in any Datacenter worldwide deployed if you want. There are companies that help you doing this.

Feel free to ask if you need help.

Mave83··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2022)
As we have grown well over 100% again in our 5th year of #croit, we are looking for IT enthusiasts in the IT Storage environment worldwide to help us meet the strong demand from our customers. In particular, but not exclusively, we are looking to grow in the USA or Australia time zones.

We are looking for:

- Senior Linux Administrator

- Senior Enterprise Storage consultant

- Junior/Senior Ceph storage specialist

- Senior Sales engineer

What do we offer?

- 100% #remote work

- Flexible work at largely self-determined times

- Interesting and sophisticated field of work

- Above average vacation entitlement

- With relevant qualifications, we are also happy to pay above average

- No expectation of overtime

- Team of experienced #Linux and #storage experts

- Regular exciting team events

- Flat hierarchy and short decision making processes

- Inspiring customers and projects

- Opportunities for further development in other technologies and fields of activity

- and many more

croit fosters an open culture that is shaped by our globally diverse colleagues. If you know someone, or maybe you are interested yourself, don't hesitate to contact us via mail at jobs@croit.io.

Mave83··on Should a government be able to impose lockdowns?
Nope
Mave83··on I got pwned by my cloud costs
Just avoid cloud and choose dedicated infrastructure
Mave83··on Ask HN: How to continue to be gracious about the good fortune of rich friends?
What do they other than you? Ask your self, how can you get your own as up to get enough money to be happy? By the way, money doesn't exactly equals happiness, it just makes it easier.
Mave83··on Ask HN: Moving from tiny websites to serious tech skills?
Simple, you usually don't need that. Most devs now a days don't know how to build efficient websites. That's why they need a tech Stack like the Mount Everest and create a dependency hell. It was possible to serve more then 250k unique users per day from a single VM more than 10y ago on shitty hardware. You can deliver so much more on modern tech if you stick to KISS principle.

But yes, some rare sites do need to scale above >1M unique users, that's where the trouble begins. You can start by benchmarking everything you build. Think of every line of code and optimize it, or you just build your stack in smaller pieces and scale out using modern tech Stack. The question is, what do you want to learn. The first way would learn you how to build efficient software, the second one would teach you how to waste lots of resources but be new, modern and a hipster. And in addition, now a days employees are so expensive, that a company don't care about Cloud costs if this makes dev faster.

Mave83··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2021)
croit | REMOTE | PART + FULL TIME

We are a strong growing very skilled and ambitious consulting and product development company currently in the area of software defined storage and it infrastructure solutions. Our goal is to simplify the usage of complex technologies to address a broader market. The beauty of that: We get to play around with complex technologies the whole day. To grow our Team and Company, we want to start a new Team in the US timezones with and grow existing others with 100% work from home (remote).

Here are some example job offers:

* Senior Technical Sales Engineer: https://croit.io/career/senior-technical-sales-engineer

* Pre-sales Engineer: https://croit.io/career/pre-sales-engineer

* Storage Consultant: https://croit.io/career/storage-consultant

As well as:

* Ambitious Linux system administrators

* Ceph Storage Administrators

* Support Engineers

If you are interested, reach out to us at jobs@croit.io.

Mave83··on Los Angeles is gearing up to ban wood-frame construction
In Germany, only a small portion of our houses are wood framed. But we have high standards, so our wood frames are protected and escape routes in special are covered by non burning plates. In addition, building stairs with the right wood can make them more sustainable to fire than concrete.

Overall, that's a very bad decision they made or want to make and there are even more technology available to prevent any form of fire in wood framed houses. Example: circuit breakers with lightning detection.

Mave83··on Ask HN: Is the ISO 27001 certification worth it?
Yes it is. If you do it right, it will not only improve your security but also your reliability as well as scalability. It forces you to think about you business processes and documentation. This helps by onboarding new employees as well as bringing structure to existing. In addition, you gain stability to you enterprise.

But, this does not come for free. You have to invest time and Money and most companies don't understand the importance of not copy and pasting existing SOP and other documents.

Mave83··on The Ideal Economy
Lol, why should I work day and night? Why should I build a company and hire people if nothing good will it bring me?

If I do not earn a great amount by giving up my personal free time and risk my entire life, i wouldn't do it. That's easy.

Mave83··on Show HN: A low power 1U Raspberry Pi cluster server for inexpensive colocation
if you use a 2U and much deeper System, you could fit them standing instead of laying down. It should be possible to add a huge amount by that.

May I also suggest to just use a small 3d printed part to hold them in place.

How about the raspberry pi m2 shield? Or how about using a 24x 2.5" chassis to support Hot swap drive replacement?

Mave83··on 25 Gigabit Linux internet router PC build
why no just buy a good nvidia/mellanox nic and route directly on it? Modern NIC's are amazing and you can offload everything if you like.
Mave83··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2021)
croit | REMOTE | PART + FULL TIME

We are a smaller but very skilled and ambitious consulting and product development company currently in the area of software defined storage and it infrastructure solutions. Our goal is to simplify the usage of complex technologies to address a broader market. The beauty of that: We get to play around with complex technologies the whole day. To grow our Team, we would like to hire especially experienced DevOps Engineers and Sales Engineers.

Here are some job offers:

* DevOps Engineer: https://croit.io/career/devops-engineer

* Senior Technical Sales Engineer: https://croit.io/career/senior-technical-sales-engineer

If you are interested, reach out to us at jobs@croit.io.

Mave83··on Ask HN: How do I find a good startup idea?
for me it always worked well to just solve a problem at hand. There are lots, and you will most likely encounter them on a daily or weekly basis. You just don't recognice then.
Mave83··on Former Tesla IT infrastructure employee tells horror stories
What's the problem with a single datacenter, as long as I have a offsite backup, it's ok. Besides that, if the services are not. Mission critical and time to recover from external backup ist short enough, I see no issue with running in a single datacenter.

However, on telas scale, I would properly have multiple in different countries.

Mave83··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2021)
croit | REMOTE | PART or FULL TIME

We are a smaller but very skilled and ambitious consulting and product development company currently in the area of software defined storage solutions. Our goal is to simplify the usage of complex technologies to address a broader market. The beauty of that: We get to play around with complex technologies the whole day. To grow our Team, we would like to hire especially DevOps Engineers.

Here are some job offers:

* DevOps Engineer: https://croit.io/career/devops-engineer

* Pre-Sales Engineer: https://croit.io/career/pre-sales-engineer

If you are interested, reach out to us at jobs@croit.io.

Mave83··on Ask HN: I feel my career is at a dead end. Any advice on what could I do?
let younger agile people Code, be an Software Architect if you like Code or manage coding teams. That is most likely better.
Mave83··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2021)
croit | REMOTE | PART or FULL TIME We are a smaller but very skilled and ambitious consulting and product development company in the area of software defined storage solutions based on Ceph. Our goal is to simplify the usage of complex technologies to address a broader market. The beauty of that: We get to play around with complex technologies the whole day.

To grow our Development team, we would like to hire especially Java/Kotlin Backend developers.

Here are some job offers:

* Kotlin Developer: https://croit.io/career/kotlin-developer

* Frontend Developer: https://croit.io/career/frontend-developer

* C++ Ceph Developer: https://croit.io/career/ceph-developer

If you are interested, reach out to us at jobs@croit.io.

Mave83··on Generalists vs specialists – Who has a greater chance of success? (2019)
I strongly liky my generalistic knowledge. It often helps me find solutions or ways others can't see.

However, I do relay on some specialists in my Team to fulfill other demands.

For me, a good Team had both.

Mave83··on AWS faulty UX cost our business $7k and they refused to do anything about it
just do go to AWS, it's easy
Mave83··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2021)
croit | REMOTE | PART or FULL TIME

We are a smaller but very skilled and ambitious consulting and product development company in the area of software defined storage solutions based on Ceph. Our goal is to simplify the usage of complex technologies to address a broader market. The beauty of that: We get to play around with complex technologies the whole day.

* Frontend Developer: https://croit.io/career/frontend-developer

* CEPH Storage Engineer: https://croit.io/career/ceph-storage-engineer

* Backend Developer: https://croit.io/career/storage-solution-developer

If you are interested, reach out to us at jobs@croit.io.

Mave83··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2021)
croit | Linux System Engineer | Munich | ONSITE or REMOTE | Full/Part/Freelance

We are a small but very skilled and ambitious consulting and product development company in the area of software defined storage solutions based on Ceph. Our goal is to simplify the usage of complex technologies to address a broader market. The beauty of that: We get to play around with complex technologies the whole day.

If you are interested to learn and/or work on the whole package (OS, software, networking, services like NFS, S3, RBD, SMB, ...), reach out to us at jobs@croit.io

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