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I don’t get to say this often, but “I’m hiring” (at Percona):
I’ve been with Percona for about 5 years, so I can tell you: it’s probably the best company to work at: great pay, great benefits, great people, and truly driven by a desire to do right by customers and do good work. What more can you ask for? Of course, all these jobs are MySQL-related: Perl + MySQL, PHP + MySQL–maybe the UI/UX job less so, but still close enough.
Read the original article at Cloud DBA and Management Interview
What does a cloud computing expert need to know? This is the last of a three part guide to interviewing for a cloud operations position. You can find them here – part one Operations Interview and part two Deployment Interview. Here’s my guide to do just that. 1. Database administration experience Although in some shops [...]
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Related posts:Read the original article at Cloud Deployment Interview
What does a cloud computing expert need to know? In part one of the cloud interview guide we covered some basic unix & Linux systems administration skills, and cloud computing and infrastructure concepts. Those are key starting points. You might also want to jump to part 3 cloud dba, architecture and management interview questions.
In this second part, let’s dig into deploying applications in the cloud, and day to
[Read more...]Read the original article at Cloud Operations Interview
What does a cloud computing expert need to know? How do you hire a cloud computing expert? Competition for operations & DBAs is fierce, so you’ll want to know how to find the best.
If you’re a systems administrator or ops guy, you may want to prepare for an interview for such a position. Meanwhile, if you’re a director of it or operations, a recruiter or manager in HR, you’ll want to have some idea how to find the right candidate.
Here’s my guide to do just that. You may
[Read more...]Read the original article at Why do people leave consulting?
As a long time freelancer, it’s a question that’s intrigued me for some time. I do have some theories… First, definitions… I’m not talking about working for a large consulting firm. Although this role may be called “consultant”, my meaning is consultant as sole proprietor, entrepreneur, gun for hire or lone wolf. 1. Make more [...]
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Read the original article at Hiring is a numbers game
On a recent twitter chat (#hfchat) I posted some comments about hiring. Some folks were complaining that they had applied to various jobs, and not heard back.
I commented…
Apply for a job and don’t hear back, it’s nothing personalIn today’s market, there are hundreds of job applicants for every position. Sad to say, but that means things become a blur after a while. There’s less chance to sift each candidate and find out who they really are or what they really know. It’s more about keywords, and buzzwords if you must, to get your
[Read more...]Read the original article at Why you should attend Percona Live 2012
What I loved about Percona Live 2011 Last year I was excited to go to Percona Live for the first time in NYC. I arrived just in time to hear Harrison Fisk from Facebook speak about some of the awesome tweaks they’re running with MySQL there. It’s not everyday that you get to hear from [...]
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No related posts.Read the original article at Road War Story – Hacking Inflight Solutions
Last summer I got my call from the president at 2am. Actually it was my former boss at Hollywood Reporter. I had worked there three months previous, and they had since hired an outsourced DBA solution. Big outsource, big chops. And big fail.
I was scrambling to pack my luggage to go on summer vacation. I was bound for SF at the moment and my flight was leaving in the morning. I was trying to wrap up loose ends and my
[Read more...]Read the original article at What Recession? – New York Tech Hiring Frenzy
According to Crains, New York is digital jobs central. ZocDoc, Thrillist, Foursquare and 10gen are just a few of the hot shots located at 568 Broadway, a tech hub in Soho. Each of these firms is looking to double their headcount in the coming year. Not bad considering the rough shape much of the economy is in.
Let’s not forget the huge tech firms that are also on a hiring binge, Google, Facebook, Zynga, Twitter & Skype are all hiring. Bloomberg Businessweek describes it
[Read more...]Read the original article at Best of Guide – Highlights of Our Popular Content
We cherry pick the top 5 most popular posts of various topics we’ve covered in recent months.
We use a broad brush to highlight the biggest no-nos in web application scalability.
We dig into scalability, steering to the richest areas to focus on.
Read the original article at Top MySQL DBA interview questions (Part 1)
MySQL DBAs are in greater demand now than they’ve ever been. While some firms are losing the fight for talent, promising startups with a progressive bent are getting first dibs with the best applicants. Whatever the case, interviewing for a MySQL DBA is a skill in itself so I thought I’d share a guide of top MySQL DBA interview questions to help with your screening process.
It’s long and detailed with some background to give context so I will be publishing this in two parts.
Read the original article at How to hire a developer that doesn’t suck
Strip by Randall Munroe; xkcd.com
First things first. This is not meant to be a beef against developers. But let’s not ignore the elephant in the living room that is the divide between brilliant code writers and the risk averse operations team.
It is almost by default that developers are disruptive with their creative coding while the guys in operations, those who deploy the code, constantly cross their fingers in the hope that application changes won’t tilt the machine. And when you’re woken up at 4am to deal with an outage or your sluggish site is costing millions in losses,
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Continuent is hiring. The business is growing, the opportunities are piling up nicely, and we need to beef up the team with the addition of some new professionals. 
Oracle investment in MySQL is growing, and so is our emphasis on community presence, participation, and leadership. We need now your help. Our team at Oracle needs to grow in order to support community better, and we are starting by filling the position for MySQL community manager in a place with a significantly large MySQL user base: North America.
Here we are again, with a fresh recruitment offer, for a MySQL Community Manager for North America. Please visit this
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At the beginning of 2009, I was hired by Tag1 Consulting as Jeremy Andrews' full time partner. A decidedly questionable decision on his part, but a great change for me! I used to work at the Open Source Lab at Oregon State University and I am currently the sysadmin for drupal.org. Working at the OSL and drupal.org spoiled me, I'll be completely honest about that. I got used to working with interesting new technologies and consistently pushing the limits of my knowledge.
Few days ago we were chatting in our corporate Campfire room and one of the guys asked me what do I think about Rails developers hiring process, what questions I’d ask a candidate, etc… This question started really long and interesting discussion and I’d like to share my thoughts on this question in this post.
So, first of all I would like to explain what kind of interviews I really hate 
Ever since I was thinking of myself as of a developer (many years ago) and was going to “software developer position” interviews I really hated questions like “What is the name and possible values of the third parameter of the function some_freakin_weird_func() from some_weird.h” or “How to declare a virtual destructor and when it
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Big Cats by micalngelo
“Every startup CEO is at least thinking about the need to cut back right now” – Michael Arrington
“We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.” – Warren Buffet
I’ll give you one guess as to which man I’m listening to. So no, not every startup CEO is cutting back. Apple spent their time innovating during the last downturn and look where it got them. I’m thrilled to have just passed out big, healthy profit-sharing bonuses to all of
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