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Elastic is almost the exact execution of this article. The majority of their revenue comes from paid add-ons and hosted services.

Customers using a large-scale analytics database...

This sounds like one of those things that sounds fun on a whiteboard but will be hell to implement and actually make perform well at all.

STRIIM | UI/UX Designer, Data Platform Engineer | Palo Alto and San Francisco - FULL TIME - ONSITE

Striim is an enterprise-grade real-time, streaming analytics product deployed at some of the largest Fortune 100 companies, solving mission critical problems. We work with cutting edge big data analytics technologies and we're recognized as one of the best places to work in the San Francisco Bay Area by multiple publications.

Striim is hiring a UI/UX designer with a special interest in data products: data visualization, data exploration, interactive analysis. The role includes working with the product team to turn requirements into beautiful, detailed, intuitive UX workflows for excellent UI engineering team to use as their blue prints. You should have experience working on technical products that require you to learn certain data concepts (SQL, visualization techniques, data exploration techniques).

DATA PLATFORM ENGINEER: Architect highly scalable distributed systems, using different open source tools such as Kafka, ZMQ, Elastic and more.

Please apply through our careers page:

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Seems like every wanna be Steve Jobs completely misses the point of what made Steve Jobs great, but then use all the bad parts about his personality to justify doing horrible, stupid, crazy things.

Its also basically impossible to avoid office politics as a PM. Suddenly you're in a role where you have to make decisions that come down to opinions. And you know what they say about opinions. You can justify and be as transparent about the process as you possibly can be, but you'll still have people in other parts of the business that have their own assumptions and disagree...and suddenly there's stress and friction in the job.

Slightly unrelated, but what would be the best way to migrate a kubernetes application from one cloud to the other?

Most people are focussing on their advertising spend, but it looks like they've built their marketing team for inside sales rather than growth.

$3k/month on advertising means they're getting spending about $100/day. That's too low to properly target a SaaS audience for actual growth. My guess is that because they have 80k customers (according to their website), they focus most of their marketing plans around customer success and renewals rather than acquiring new leads. You can see they have a lot of budget tied to mailchimp...a sign that they spend a lot of time on lead/customer nurturing campaigns.

I don't think this blog post is meant to be useful for any company that doesn't already have mass traction.

Good move for both companies. The surplus of 'enterprise hadoop' companies was created by a mixture of hype and a peak in VC investment in open source.

The fact that Cloudera, Hortonworks, MapR were all founded and raised $100m+ around the same time was a bit superfluous for the whole market.

Hard to say where this leaves MapR now. They seem to be the odd man out in terms of growth and adoption.

Stay a software developer as long as you can. Don't jump into management prematurely. You'll miss the days where you used to work on interesting technical problems rather than people problems and politicking.

> Until we have a broad deployment of protected bike lanes, its just not worth the risks.

And unfortunately this likely won't happen. Despite a large coalition of biking advocates in SF, the SFMTA won't lift a finger. It's a corrupt, incompetent organizations that won't green light anything other than useless pork projects. And once the moneys in...the execution is irrelevant to them. Just look at the Van Ness BRT, Central Subway, Transbay Center construction.

> With all that said, PLEASEEEEEE don't ruin it, Apple

I don't think the overall UX, song recognition, tag tracking will be ruined

> Specifically meaning I love it's integration with Spotify. I will be bummed if that goes away for an exclusive Apple Music integration.

Well that was pretty much what Apple paid for. I can already see that all my shazam tags automatically show up in Apple Music for me. Clearly this is just becoming another growth channel for Apple music which means their Spotify integration will likely be diminished or end.

I always found the commercial open source community to be a bit too idealistic. On one end you have developers from very wealthy companies driving these hyped up projects.

Sometimes those same developers will leave that wealthy company to start the commercial vehicle for that project. They talk about the wonders of open source and free software.

Obviously their next move is to monetize the project with commercial add-ons and they end up charging 6 to 8 figure price tags for 'free' software. Their enterprise customers justify this by saying 'we have the source code for the core product...its open source so we won't get locked in'. But the likely hood that some overgrown Fortune 2000 IT team will use the forked source code and not the shipped enterprise product is basically zero.

At that point, the FOSS nature is just a farce. It might as well be proprietary software at that point. There's no way the same company will prioritize the community over the high paying customers. They take over the development of the core open source version. They end up hiring all the main contributors. They find new ways to monetize it. They build add-ons that are end up being essential to using the same project in production. Its no longer a community-driven engineering meritocracy, but simply an enterprise development team with a github page.

They also sell Amy's Bowls at every whole foods in the country:

https://www.amys.com/our-foods/indian-mattar-paneer

https://www.amys.com/our-foods/indian-palak-paneer

Amy's bowls typically come in around $5 per dish as well.

Those aren't slack problems, those are people problems. I can just as easily point to email threads that are incoherent and hard to follow. I can also point to meetings with no agenda that waste everyones time but give the appearance of 'managing' or team building.

When used properly (not lazily), Slack is a great place to organize communication between teams. At worst its Skype with a way better UI...what's wrong with that?

What's new is old again. Michael Stonebraker had a paper about this in 2007 [0]. Over that time a slew of products came into the market that claimed to do it all. JSON, SQL, ACID transactions, Streaming, time-series, Full-text search, batch processing, ETL etc. Things that don't even fit in the same bucket. For awhile companies were positioning Hadoop to do all of it

Seems like through every technology hype cycle, the same reminders need to be written and re-circulated again.

0: https://cs.brown.edu/~ugur/fits_all.pdf

The tunnel diameter is much smaller. Like 1890s-built London Underground diameter tunnels.

The standard with US subway construction today is massive tunnels with huge, expensive stations. Seems to be a design choice from Musk.

I learned D3 in an academic context. In that environment it was great. When learning about the core theory of data visualization d3.js is an excellent abstraction and lets you make very deliberate decisions over core elements of a chart. Decisions that you can have an explanation for and defend.

In a work context, D3.js is overkill most of the time. People expect line charts, maps, bubble charts that are simple and interactive...doing that in d3.js is a lot of copy/paste from examples and spending days to weeks working on simple details that would come OOTB in something like Highcharts.

I would only recommend d3.js if you really want to dive deep into the constructs of the visualization. If you want a vanilla chart, there's plenty of high level open source libraries you can use.

Stream processing engines are meant to work with ephemeral data, fast data. Couldn't you just use a database to query 'all time'?

You need to make it a business where you could allow 99% of your users to pay you $0 and still survive. Meaning a small segment of your users pay for 'enterprise' or advanced features to sustain your business.

Support/services is not a scalable business model.

There have been a few companies that had a moderately successful open source project, but saw their business fold.

Very cool! How do you go about implementing and executing on problem roadmaps?

Oh wow this gave me some flashbacks to using Balsamiq.

https://balsamiq.com/

that was already struck down by california voters who value sparse, low populous neighborhoods more than the environment.

https://sf.curbed.com/2018/4/18/17250876/california-senate-b...

Don't worry. They'll still get calls from plenty of people who aren't sure what they're looking for, don't have any manners, or are hard to hear on their speaker/car phones.

that's just a not-so-subtle marketing tactic.

This is very HN-centric thinking (rational but not scalable). People move to Silicon Valley to "move to Silicon Valley". They're chasing a dream and they want to be in the thick of it.

Sure you might find a couple good job opportunities in Nashville or Tampa, but its hard to compare that to being in the thick of tech industry where you're right in the middle of the world's top companies, surrounded by lots of talent to push you further.

STRIIM | UI/UX Designer | Palo Alto, CA - FULL TIME

Striim is an enterprise-grade real-time, streaming analytics product deployed at some of the largest Fortune 100 companies, solving mission critical problems. We work with cutting edge big data analytics technologies and we're recognized as one of the best places to work in the San Francisco Bay Area by multiple publications.

Striim is hiring a UI/UX designer with a special interest in data products: data visualization, data exploration, interactive analysis. The role includes working with the product team to turn requirements into beautiful, detailed, intuitive UX workflows for excellent UI engineering team to use as their blue prints. You should have experience working on technical products that require you to learn certain data concepts (SQL, visualization techniques, data exploration techniques).

https://www.striim.com/careers/?p=job%2FoZkp6fwy

well FoundationDB for one doesn't resort to clickbaity pseudo-benchmark marketing tactics

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/performance-part-two/

I hope that this would be a boon for transit costs in America which are ridiculous compared to Europe [0].

But part of the problem lies with transit advocates in the US, who think tech and Elon Musk are a threat to transit. [1]

0: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/28/nyregion/new-york-subway-...

1: https://twitter.com/humantransit/status/941386665519595521

this blog post may be vendor specific but the practices can be used with other streaming frameworks