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olivemonkeyon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2016)

+1, £30k is an <12 week contract in London and you'd get to keep more of it as a contractor too

olivemonkeyon Alchemy Micro-Service Framework: Using RabbitMQ Instead of HTTP

IMO this is an emerging anti pattern to use Rabbit to connect "microservices". It often introduces a single point of failure to your "distributed" system and has problems with network partitions. If critical functionality stops working when Rabbit is down, you're probably doing it wrong.

olivemonkeyon TcpKali – Fast multi-core TCP and WebSockets load generator

Something like Gattling or Artillery.io would probably be better for this use case. TcpKali looks good but purposed more for benchmarking servers than actual apps.