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You are probably looking for a more unbiased opinion than I can deliver (I work at Gravitational and am the OP). However, I will say that Teleport is an integral component to our Telekube platform[0] which is used in production with customers like Mulesoft and Clustrix. So at least I can confirm it's not shelfware and it's crucial to the well being of our company.

[0] http://gravitational.com/telekube/

It's nice to see some momentum building behind the idea that multi-tenant SaaS doesn't have to be your only deployment. And congrats to the Replicated folks on the recent raise. It's great to see people validating these ideas/offerings. Based on mainstream tech press, you sometimes feel crazy working on something perceived as "anti-cloud".

Ah, yes. I forgot we hide the sidebar for mobile. Will take this into account in the future.

I'm the OP and author. I figured that because it's on the company blog with an about us that says what we do this was properly disclosed. But maybe it could use an additional lead in.

Inspired by a previous blog post popular on HN [1]. John E. Vincent's "So You Wanna Go On-prem Do Ya" [2].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11757669 [2] http://blog.lusis.org/blog/2016/05/15/so-you-wanna-go-onprem...

Unfortunately, our current agreement with the security company we hired prevents us from sharing the details unless under NDA. We may revisit those terms so that we can publish it now that Teleport is garnering more interest.

Edit: tried to add more clarification to address jtchang's question.

Thanks for the heads up. Unfortunately, we don't currently have Windows on the near term roadmap.

I would at least add a demo video or something to show how the product works. I had the same experience and was confused why the demo would require me to signup. At best, it came off as poor UX, at worst, a bit sleazy.

At any rate, it's an interesting idea. I would like to see a demo without having to signup for something.

Yes, that is true. I meant it more that a new class of "on-prem" is being created.

This is a great post. We've been talking to a lot of people about going "on-prem". This post is right on in that the deployment is the relatively easy part. The ongoing operations is where you will get killed.

Luckily, for those that are thinking about doing this, for the end customers "on-prem" many times means single-tenant, private cloud (usually AWS) which makes things slightly easier (as the op mentions).

The vendors that do it right make their multi-tenant cloud app and "on-prem" environments as similar as possible. So that means containerizing and using an orchestration layer like Kubernetes or Mesos everywhere (multi-tenant and single-tenant). Then you need to make sure you have a secure and scalable way to access all environments for upgrades, patches, support. We open sourced an SSH framework specifically for this purpose[1].

Bottom line: no special snowflakes.

Edit: for more info feel free to reach out: http://gravitational.com/vendors.html

[1]: http://gravitational.com/teleport/

Gravitational.com (YC S2015) | San Francisco | Full-time | ONSITE / REMOTE (US)

Positions: Backend Engineer (Go) / Product Designer / Head of Growth / Solutions Engineer

Online Descriptions: https://github.com/gravitational/careers

Contact: jobs@gravitational.com

Engineering Interview Process: There is an informal meeting or phone conversation with the founders (may be together or separate depending on timing). If everyone (including you) agrees there is a fit, we create a small engineering project for you to work on with our CTO. It is something that is similar to what you would be building full time but is not something we actually use. This gives you an idea about the type of work you’ll be doing and how we work together. If that project is successful we may want to meet in person if we haven’t already to discuss what the future looks like for all of us. Then if we decide to extend an offer, we give you two weeks to respond.

## About us

Gravitational is an early stage systems & cloud startup in San Francisco out of the YC S2015 batch.

* We are changing the way enterprise software is distributed and run.

* Our customers are people like us, engineers.

* We are well-funded by solid investors.

* We are an experienced team: we founded Mailgun (http://mailgun.com) which was acquired by Rackspace (http://rackspace.com), we created Vulcand (https://github.com/vulcand/vulcand) and some other cool stuff (http://www.rackspace.com/blog/onmetal-the-right-way-to-scale...) at Rackspace.

* We are hackers. We love Linux and low level systems programming and we love helping open source communities and other engineers to get things done.

* We are also dedicated to our families, friends, and hobbies outside of work. Our past experiences building companies taught us about the importance of life and work balance.

If this resonates, we'd like to talk to you.

Contact: jobs@gravitational.com

When I walk around SF, I see a lot of underdeveloped spaces...abandoned buildings, abandoned gas stations, huge parking lots full of city trucks. Inexplicably, there's been a huge abandoned building on 18th and Mission (seemingly prime location) for I don't know how long. This article about it is from 2012[1].

So, yes, SF is a small space but it is far from being efficiently (or fully) developed and I think the SF Planning Department and other bureaucracies are partially to blame.

[1] http://missionlocal.org/2012/07/el-chico-produce-store-to-op...

If anyone involved with this is around, I'm curious why Airbnb would build something like this - cost, performance, features, all of the above? Data querying and visualization is a pretty crowded field with a lot of commercial options to choose from[1].

I'm not knocking Caravel (it looks amazing) just curious why build vs buy in this case.

[1] Tableau, Looker, Periscope, Chartio, Qlikview, Gooddata are just some that come to mind.

thanks fixed

We don't have standard pricing, yet. Right now, it is priced on a case-by-case basis after discussing requirements with the customer.

Our objective is to enable operators (whether the operators are at the software vendor or at third parties) to maintain applications across many environments, effectively.

Once the application is ported, operations becomes much more efficient and increases the odds of success if a third party is operating it.

A few reasons why we started working on this for some additional context:

1) We think developers have had to take on too much responsibility for operating the software they build (DevOps). We hope to create more clearly defined roles for developers and operators through better tooling for operators.

2) A lot of the engineering challenges with SaaS comes from multi-tenancy, which is one of the reasons Dev and Ops have merged into one role.

3) A big reason to use cloud software is that you (as a user) don't have to operate it but that has been conflated with the requirement that you need to give up control of your data.

4) Adoption of containers (Docker[0], Rkt[1]) and container orchestration (Mesos[2], Kubernetes[3]) technology have created the opportunity to rethink the traditional model for delivering and operating software.

[0]: https://www.docker.com/

[1]: https://github.com/coreos/rkt

[2]: http://mesos.apache.org/

[3]: http://kubernetes.io/

Edit: added some examples of container and orchestration tech with links

We help the vendor make their application compatible with containers (Docker or others) and Kubernetes[0] which is an important underlying technology behind the platform.

[0] http://kubernetes.io/

I spent a lot of money on a Finance degree. Then I got my first job and they gave me one of these calculators along with the manual [1]. I then realized that everything I had learned was distilled down to this little booklet. It was a shocking realization. I still have and use it. It's a good example of great design.

[1] http://h20331.www2.hp.com/Hpsub/cache/299940-0-0-225-121.htm...

Gravitational.com (YC S2015) | San Francisco | Full-time

Onsite Preferred / Remote Possible / Must be eligible to work in U.S.

Positions: Backend (Go) / Frontend / Product Designer

Contact: jobs@gravitational.com

## About us

Gravitational is an early stage systems & cloud startup in San Francisco out of the most recent YC batch.

* We are changing the way enterprise software is distributed and run.

* Our users are people like us, engineers.

* We are well-funded by solid investors.

* We are an experienced team: we founded Mailgun (http://mailgun.com) which was acquired by Rackspace (http://rackspace.com), we created Vulcand (http://vulcand.io) and some other cool stuff (http://www.rackspace.com/blog/onmetal-the-right-way-to-scale...) at Rackspace.

* We are hackers. We love Linux and low level systems programming and we love helping open source communities and other engineers to get things done.

* We are also husbands, fathers and we have hobbies. Our past experiences building companies taught us about the importance of life and work balance.

If this resonates, we'd like to talk to you.

Contact: jobs@gravitational.com

My wife and I use Blue Apron and I am a big fan. I have to admit the packaging is extensive but at least they are trying to reduce the net waste [0].

A few other positives:

- You get the experience of making the dinner (chopping, cooking, mixing, etc.). It's a good entry point for novices.

- Many of the ingredients are somewhat exotic, so you wouldn't usually buy them in the grocery store. Or if you did you end up with a lot left over that you won't use again.

- $59 for six meals actually seems like a bargain to me. Maybe we were doing it wrong but when we used to go to the store for all our meals, we spent a lot more and ended up wasting a lot of it.

The downside is that you don't save that much time (other than the shopping trip). So I could see how Gobble is great for more time-constrained people.

In the end, I think all of these services are trying to own the space, starting with their own niches. Once they get enough traction they can land and expand to take over the other services' niches. This comes at a cost to them (poor unit economics initially), but we the consumers benefit...for now at least.

[0] https://support.blueapron.com/hc/en-us/articles/202510818-Ho...

LOL, I had the same initial reaction. Apparently Norse monitors global cyber attacks[1]. So the real question is not why they hate St. Louis but why does China hate St. Louis?

I found the link while reading conspiracy theories about the NYSE shut down this morning[2]. I have no idea about the quality of the data. I just thought the visualization was cool.

[1] http://norsecorp.com/. [2] http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-07-08/what-first-world-cy...

The one chart I wish Stripe would put in their standard dashboard is charges month to date vs. previous month to date. It's arguably the most important metric for SaaS. I always have two browser tabs open to measure this.

Edit: Looks there is some exiting stuff coming from PC's comment. Looking forward to it.

If you search for "Stripe" in the iphone app store it is nowhere to be found. Among the results that do appear are "LoL Camera", "Fruit Shake", "Color Lines Free". Apple really needs to improve their app store search.

jschlatter just wrote a great blog post about this:

http://blog.mailgun.com/introducing-a-new-cross-platform-deb...

"This definitely happened at Groupon - and by the time it was happening, it was too late to fix."

When is it "too late" to set this up? Does it have to be set up around the time initial shares are allocated (a/k/a company incorporation)?

Mailgun - since you asked...no correlation. We have distributed teams across the offices.

Rackspace - San Francisco, CA (Will relocate and remote possible. Authorized to work in U.S. strongly preferred.)

TLDR; email me if you want a great job writing software to change the world: taylor@hackrackspace.com.

We are changing the future of cloud computing at Rackspace and collaborating with OpenStack, Docker, CoreOS and anyone else that wants to joint the OSS cloud party. Just check out our latest offering, OnMetal [1], which is a combination of open source software (OpenStack) [2] and open source hardware (OpenCompute) [3].

If you are passionate about OSS/cloud/distributed systems, we would love to have you be part of our team in SF. We have positions available in a startup environment with recent acquisitions Mailgun and Exceptional.io, as well as big, hairy distributed computing problems to solve at Rackspace. So there is something for everyone.

We are located in the SoMa neighborhood in San Francisco on 2nd St. and Folsom.

Below are the offerings currently available:

* All: Get stuff done, people that are motivated to make an impact.

* All: Excited to build new products, passion for new technology, new programming models.

* Backend Engineer: Distributed systems experience, passion for large scale systems.

* Frontend Engineer: Architecting interesting fully client side apps, dashboards, live updates, etc...

* Data Engineer: Building big data systems to be used throughout the company.

* Deliverability Engineer (Mailgun): Automating email deliverability best practices into code.

I was a co-founder of Mailgun and I run the SF office so email me directly if you are interested: taylor@hackrackspace.com.

[1] http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/servers/onmetal [2] https://www.openstack.org [3] http://www.opencompute.org

We built this after going through some of the on-boarding pain points that Ghost has heard from their customers. Getting the config file right was one of the top issues.

It also happens to corresponds with us moving over to Ghost as our blogging platform, which has been a great improvement for us. The writing experience is much better than the other blogging platforms we have tried.

We wrote a blog post about it here: http://blog.mailgun.com/mailguns-new-blog-platform-is-hosted...

Seems more like complimentary rather than competition. We don't really have a dog in the fight as to which templates our customers use. Just trying to be helpful. Maybe we should do a pull request to get these templates on the sendwithus repo.

Rackspace - San Francisco, CA (will relocate and remote possible)

TLDR; email me if you want a great job writing software to change the world: taylor@hackrackspace.com.

We are changing the future of cloud computing at Rackspace and collaborating with OpenStack, Docker, CoreOS and anyone else that wants to joint the OSS cloud party. Just check out our latest offering, OnMetal [1], which is a combination of open source software (OpenStack) [2] and open source hardware (OpenCompute) [3].

If you are passionate about OSS/cloud/distributed systems, we would love to have you be part of our team in SF. We have positions available in a startup environment with recent acquisitions Mailgun and Exceptional.io, as well as big, hairy distributed computing problems to solve at Rackspace. So there is something for everyone.

We are located in the SoMa neighborhood in San Francisco on 2nd St. and Folsom.

Below are the offerings currently available:

* All: Get stuff done, people that are motivated to make an impact.

* All: Excited to build new products, passion for new technology, new programming models.

* Backend Engineer: Distributed systems experience, passion for large scale systems.

* Frontend Engineer: Architecting interesting fully client side apps, dashboards, live updates, etc...

* Data Engineer: Building big data systems to be used throughout the company.

* Spam Fighting Engineer (Mailgun): Finding spammers and fraudsters with smart algorithms.

* Deliverability Engineer (Mailgun): Automating email deliverability best practices into code.

I was a co-founder of Mailgun and I run the SF office so email me directly if you are interested: taylor@hackrackspace.com.

[1] http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/servers/onmetal [2] https://www.openstack.org [3] http://www.opencompute.org