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Re:Oxide raises $200M Series C on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @10:06AM (#46960649)
Unless the position *strictly* requires the overlap (e.g. Manufacturing or Program Management), you can apply. The required overlap is the expected team commitment you should abide to, the logistics are up to you to make it work. If that sounds encouraging, please apply!
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2025) on Saturday September 06, 2025 @01:28PM (#45151202)
Hey Victor, I sent my application, and I saw that you'll be in Toronto next week. I'd love to chat in person.

Looking forward to hearing from you!

Re:Reflecting on Four Years at Databricks on Monday October 11, 2021 @08:28AM (#28827569)
I'm surprised on the amount of hate this post has received.

Also, no one talked about what Haoyi has accomplished here (and in the general Scala Community). There are too many "icons" in the tech industry that are just techlebrities. Li, OTOH, is one of the most brilliant engineers I've ever seen. It's one of the fewest people I truly admire and I'm sure that most of the fires he describe in his post were already put off, thanks to his initiatives.

Just wanted to bring something nice to the conversation :)

Hey Alex, Alejandro here :wave:

I was a bit surprised to see the announcement about making Redpanda open source (although very interesting for poking around!).

Question: are you, as a company (Vectorized) pursuing the same business model as the Confluent one? OSS Kafka, but paid official support, cloud, connectors and registry?

Ask HN: How's It Working for Nubank?

Hello there,I'd like to know how's it working for Nubank? I've recently got a message from one of their recruiters and according to their Medium blog, it seems interesting what they're doing. I've also took a look at the Glassdoor reviews but I see mixed opinions (some of them outdated).If someone here works for them and like to share their experience it'd be much appreciated.Thanks!

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Thank you.

Ask HN: Topics for an introductory distributed systems course?

Hello!I'm a Scala software developer interested in knowing more about the theory behind Distributed Systems. One of the things that I want to do this year is to learn the topic by sharing what I learned in form of a course.I have the following material to start:- An introduction to distributed systems by Kyle Kingsbury (https://github.com/aphyr/distsys-class/blob/master/README.markdown)-...

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