250 karma · joined June 1, 2017
Money was always tight in the beginning, but after a while it grew to something that does not affect me or my decision anymore.
After more then 10 years of PXE booting most systems, I personally can definitely say it is rock solid, reduce maintenance times, and makes scaling simple.
When you want to target big and unsexy companies, just to have a nice resume, a degree is the right way to go. If you plan to be an entrepreneur, founding a business or freelance, it's mostly useless and I don't believe it will change in the next 5-10y as it was that way the last 20y.
Todays trends are to work less with better money and better work life balance, not the opposite. If you encounter the difference, run as fast as you can :).
croit develops the most advanced software defined storage management solution with a world wide customer base. We love smart technology and we search people that do so as well.
Our software is mainly written in Kotlin. Some knowledge about SQL, time series database, Networking, Storage, and servers won't hurt. However we do train and enable all of our coworkers to evolve further.
Reach out to us if you want a great opportunity and a good work life balance at jobs@croit.io.
We believe, that we build the best solution to manage Ceph based unified software defined storage. Now we want to keep it and add additional new services around that.
If you are open minded, interested in Linux, Storage, Virtualization or high speed networking, we are happy to welcome you to our small team. REMOTE is ok, Munich(Germany) would be awesome.
Don't hate new stuff, it's OK to have same changes and sorry to say, the old home directory is awful. Maybe the new will bring something good as well (don't know yet, but I try to stay open minded). For example I would love to see roaming home profiles in Linux, not only for the desktop but for servers as well.
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
save yourself some lifetime and boot a pregenerated os over network, it's amazing
Ceph Storage based on PXE can be deployed using croit.io. The pre build OS is configured to send the logs to the management node using systemd-journald (not the syslog crap). It's awesome.
For example debian in memory including everything you need on a server is just below 400M.
We builded a lot of datacenter services on PXE on the past years. It's always handy if you do require more resources than a single server can provide. It's like a container on steroids.
Why don't you just create your own company in a field you like? In the EU it's easy to do so and there are hundreds of accelerator programs that help doing so.
Innovation is nothing US exclusive. For example, just look how many Israel companies provide innovative products to the US tech companies.
:)
I ended up learning mechanics and after finishing my apprenticeship I founded my first company (~2000).
After 18 hard working years of entrepreneurship I managed to start and exited 2 successfull companies with 8 figures volume.
I can only suggest to start your own business if you are dedicated. Don't think it is easy, or that you will have a lot of spare time. But I won't miss a day of my journey so far. And yes, I don't need to work anymore, but can't stop!