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Sponsored Post: Apple, Asana, Hypertable, Sprout Social, Scalyr, FoundationDB, AiScaler, Aerospike, AppDynamics, ManageEngine, Site24x7

High Scalability

High Scalability

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Who's Hiring?

  • Apple has multiple openings. Changing the world is all in a day's work at Apple. Imagine what you could do here. 
    • Sr. Software Developer. We are looking for a solid senior-level Java/C programmer who will be working on security software development. This software will provide the data protection, integrity, and service authentication services for iOS devices. Please apply here.
    • DevOps Software Engineer - Apple Pay, iOS Systems.  The iOS Systems team is looking for an outstanding DevOps software engineer to help make our rapidly growing platform manageable, scalable, and reliable using state of the art technologies and cutting edge system automation. Come join the team to strategize, architect, and build infrastructure to help our systems perform and scale. Please apply here. 
    • Sr. Software Engineer-iOS Systems. Do you love building highly scalable, distributed web applications? Does the idea of performance tuning Java applications make your heart leap? Would you like to work in a fast-paced environment where your technical abilities will be challenged on a day to day basis? Do you want your work to make a difference in the lives of millions of people? Please apply here.
    • Apple Pay - Site Reliability Engineer. You already know this… every issue counts. A single ticket can be the key to discovering an issue impacting thousands of people. And now that you’ve found it, you can’t wait to fix it. You also know that owning the quality of an application is about separating the signal from the noise. Finding that signal is what motives you. Now that you’ve found it, you’re next step is to role up the sleeves and start coding. As a member of the Apple Pay SRE team, you’re expected to not just find the issues, but to write code and fix them. Please apply here.
    • Senior Software Engineer -iOS Systems. This role demands the best and brightest engineers. The ideal candidate will be well rounded and offer a diverse skill set that aligns with key qualifications. Practical experience integrating with a diverse set of third-party APIs will also serve to distinguish you from other candidates. This is a highly cross functional role, and the typical team member's day to day responsibilities on the Carrier Services team. Please apply here. 

  • As a production-focused infrastructure engineer at Asana, you’ll be the 
    person who takes the lead on setting and achieving our stability and uptime 
    goals, architecting the production stack, defining the on-call experience, the 
    build process, cluster management, monitoring and alerting. Please apply 
    here.

  • Platform Software Engineer, Sprout Social, builds world-class social media management software designed and built for performance, scale, reliability and product agility. We pick the right tool for the job while being pragmatic and scrappy. Services are built in Python and Java using technologies like Cassandra and Hadoop, HBase and Redis, Storm and Finagle. At the moment we’re staring down a rapidly growing 20TB Hadoop cluster and about the same amount stored in MySQL and Cassandra. We have a lot of data and we want people hungry to work at scale. Apply here.

  • UI Engineer– AppDynamics, founded in 2008 and lead by proven innovators, is looking for a passionate UI Engineer to design, architect, and develop our their user interface using the latest web and mobile technologies. Make the impossible possible and the hard easy. Apply here.

  • Software Engineer - Infrastructure & Big Data – AppDynamics, leader in next generation solutions for managing modern, distributed, and extremely complex applications residing in both the cloud and the data center, is looking for a Software Engineers (All-Levels) to design and develop scalable software written in Java and MySQL for backend component of software that manages application architectures. Apply here.

Fun and Informative Events

  • Sign Up for New Aerospike Training Courses. Aerospike now offers two certified training courses; Aerospike for Developers and Aerospike for Administrators & Operators, to help you get the most out of your deployment.  Find a training course near you. http://www.aerospike.com/aerospike-training/

Cool Products and Services

  • Hypertable Inc. Announces New UpTime Support Subscription Packages. The developer of Hypertable, an open-source, high-performance, massively scalable database, announces three new UpTime support subscription packages – Premium 24/7, Enterprise 24/7 and Basic. 24/7/365 support packages start at just $1995 per month for a ten node cluster -- $49.95 per machine, per month thereafter. For more information visit us on the Web at http://www.hypertable.com/. Connect with Hypertable: @hypertable--Blog.

  • FoundationDB launches SQL Layer. SQL Layer is an ANSI SQL engine that stores its data in the FoundationDB Key-Value Store, inheriting its exceptional properties like automatic fault tolerance and scalability. It is best suited for operational (OLTP) applications with high concurrency. Users of the Key Value store will have free access to SQL Layer. SQL Layer is also open source, you can get started with it on GitHub as well.
  • Diagnose server issues from a single tab. The Scalyr log management tool replaces all your monitoring and analysis services with one, so you can pinpoint and resolve issues without juggling multiple tools and tabs. It's a universal tool for visibility into your production systems. Log aggregation, server metrics, monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and more. Not just “hosted grep” or “hosted graphs,” but enterprise-grade functionality with sane pricing and insane performance. Trusted by in-the-know companies like Codecademy – try it free!
  • aiScaler, aiProtect, aiMobile Application Delivery Controller with integrated Dynamic Site Acceleration, Denial of Service Protection and Mobile Content Management. Cloud deployable. Free instant trial, no sign-up required. http://aiscaler.com/
  • ManageEngine Applications Manager : Monitor physical, virtual and Cloud Applications.
  • www.site24x7.com : Monitor End User Experience from a global monitoring network.

If any of these items interest you there's a full description of each sponsor below. Please click to read more...

Asana Production Engineer:

At Asana, we’re building collaboration & communication software to help  every team in the world become more effective in working together and in  realizing their visions.

Given that those teams rely on us every day, our engineering team’s number  one priority is delivering a stable and fast service. As a member of the  infrastructure team, you’ll build and operate software to make Asana secure,  scalable, stable and fast. Asana is a product-focused company and the  infrastructure team builds the foundation needed to support first-rate web and  mobile applications. You’ll be combining industry best-practices and your  innovation with a ground-breaking reactive framework.

As a production-focused infrastructure engineer at Asana, you’ll be the  person who takes the lead on setting and achieving our stability and uptime  goals, architecting the production stack, defining the on-call experience, the  build process, cluster management, monitoring and alerting. You’ll join a team  that cares deeply about these things but benefits from your deep expertise in  solving these problems. You’ll provide a clear and calm mind as the team digs  in to the inevitable crises. Your insights into distributed systems will help us  understand and avoid problems as we scale and change our technology

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES

Help define and create a production stack that supports scalable,  stable, and fast back-end services.

• Develop a deep understanding of dependencies within our  infrastructure, so that you can help avoid and mitigate security,  reliability and performance exposures.

• Communicate the design and operation of the production environment  with engineers of all stripes. • Define and implement cluster management, monitoring and alerting.

• Participate in the on-call rotation, and help define it as Asana grows. YOU…

• Focus on eliminating risks and ensuring reliability above all else

• Have experience with the whole range of production activities

• Want to make a long term commitment to join a family

• Are kind and mature

Please apply here.

Hypertable Inc. Announces New UpTime Support Subscription Packages

24/7/365 support packages start at just $1995 per month for a ten node cluster -- $49.95 per machine, per month thereafter.

Hypertable Inc., the developer of Hypertable, an open-source, high-performance, massively scalable database, announces three new UpTime support subscription packages – Premium 24/7, Enterprise 24/7 and Basic.  24/7/365 support packages start at just $1995 per month for a ten node cluster -- $49.95 per machine, per month thereafter.

The new Hypertable UpTime Support Subscriptions offer maximum uptime assurance to organizations who depend on their scalable database infrastructure to meet their business objectives. An UpTime support subscription provides your organization with round-the-clock service, helping to minimize the risk and maximize the value of your big data application.

For more information, please call +1 650.401.6038 or visit us on the Web at http://www.hypertable.com/.   Connect with Hypertable: @hypertable -- Blog

Scalyr -- The Solution to Your Operational Diagnostics Woes

You're running multiple systems on multiple servers. "ssh into the server and tail the log" is no longer a viable strategy for investigating problems. Old school graphing, alerting, and log-grep tools give you too little visibility for too much effort.

Scalyr is your universal tool for visibility into your production systems, providing centralized log management, server metrics, monitoring, alerting, dashboards, log parsing, and more. Don't be limited by the narrow capabilities of traditional tools. All of your operational data -- logs, metrics, and more -- in one place, where you can explore, filter, and analyze at interactive speeds. Enterprise-grade functionality with sane pricing and insane performance. View the feature list to learn more.

Test aiCache acceleration for free. No sign-up required.

We have set up aiCache on the Amazon Ec2 cloud to allow you to accelerate your website, test it, and optionally deploy in about 10 minutes. No sign-up required and its free.

You give us your website address and we spin up an AWS Micro instance running aiCache configured for your site. We then give you a simple configuration tool, if you want to further tune the Dynamic Caching.

You can then test your regular site and the accelerated site side by side in real time, from a third party testing service, complete with waterfall chart to tell you what is slow. With a few clicks you can tune the Dynamic Caching and re-run the test till you get the optimal config, unique to your site.

Want to deploy it? Great put in the AWS instance ID and Key and we will push it to your choice of live server.

Got everything perfect? Update your DNS or pull a copy to your datacenter.

Want help? We can have one of our engineers hop on and joint edit the config file with you, to work through tricky SSL and Session authentication. A do it yourself kinda engineer? Great context sensitive help is available of every line of the config file.

Want to save it for later, no problem. Want to download it for use on your own box, clicky-clicky free.

See the power of aiCache on your time without being bugged. http://aiscaler.com/deploy

AppDynamics Troubleshooting Java Performance for Free

AppDynamics is the very first free product designed for troubleshooting Java performance while getting full visibility in production environments. If you're an application owner and need to ensure high availability and performance--but not ready to purchase a full monitoring tool--AppDynamics Lite is build for you. Install in two minutes; be monitoring a Java Virtual Machine in 10 minutes.

Visit http://www.appdynamics.com/freetrial

ManageEngine Applications Manager

ManageEngine provides Enterprise IT Management suite of products. ManageEngine Applications Manager helps SaaS companies monitor their production applications and helps keep costs low.


There is out-of-the-box support for monitoring application servers, database servers, servers and web servers from a single web console. In addition to support for IBM Applications, Oracle Apps and Microsoft applications, there is deep support for Open Source Applications like JBoss, Memcached, LAMP stack etc.  Pricing starts at $795 for monitoring 25 servers or applications. Learn more about the Application Performance Monitoring tool.

Site24x7

Site24x7.com (from ZOHO) is a Website and Web Application Monitoring service. It helps you ensure your shopping carts and other web transactions work. It also helps you monitor the performance of your websites from a global point of presence. You can Sign Up for a Free Trial. The Professional Edition starts at $1 / Month. Learn more about the Website Monitoring Service.

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