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Re:Compose Is Joining IBM on Thursday July 23, 2015 @12:59PM (#9937000)
If you only care about stock price, and even then no.

IBM is a large company that does a lot. They put more money and people towards pure tech than most firms, especially in places like IBM Research.

Re:Compose Is Joining IBM on Thursday July 23, 2015 @12:51PM (#9936939)
IBM is huge, and it's hard to give a general impression around the whole company that makes any sense. I can only really speak about CDS (the division Compose is joining and Cloudant is a part of) but I can say it's a really exciting place to work. CDS is about as fast-moving as you can get in a company this large, and the leadership really understands the shift to SaaS. We have a great team and a lot of autonomy to make decisions outside of the general corporate superstructure.

I'm biased but think it speaks highly that Cloudant people (Adam Kocoloski and Derek Schoettle) were tapped to lead this group.

Re:IBM to Acquire Cloudant on Monday February 24, 2014 @10:22AM (#7291232)
The shared DBs piece has been a tough nut to crack. We decided to release the new dashboard without that piece given how much of an upgrade the rest of it was. The feedback on the new dash has been overwhelmingly positive (except for the shared DBs piece.)

We are working on fixing that piece and completely deprecating the old UI. That change should be coming soon.

Re:Bye, MongoDB. Hello, Cloudant on Thursday December 06, 2012 @01:19PM (#4882958)
Our pricing as stated on the page can be somewhat confusing. We're working on making it both less expensive and more transparent to the end user.

Cloudant (YC S08) is looking for a Lead Front-End Engineer

Posted by ahoff on Thursday August 04, 2011 @12:36PM
from the now-hiring dept.

Cloudant is looking for an amazing front-end hacker to lead development on our database-as-a-service offeringWe’re a small team with big ideas going after fantastically hard problems. You want to join us because you want to have a big impact from day one. You don’t want to work on just another web application, you want to build the foundation for the new breed of web applications. We’re an...

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Re:Cloudant (YC S08) Releases In-Database, Distributed Search on Thursday July 14, 2011 @03:10PM (#2764534)
For now, this feature will stay a part of the closed-source hosted and licensed products. But remember you can always try it out for free with our Oxygen plan at cloudant.com
Re:Advice for YC Applicants: Better Last-Minute than Late on Monday October 18, 2010 @03:39PM (#1804841)
We learned of the application about 1 week before the deadline. We threw it together in an afternoon, spent a couple days editing, and turned it in just before the deadline. We basically thought "What the hell?" the worst thing that can happen is we don't get accepted, and then we will have only wasted the time we spent preparing the application. We had no demo and barely a coherent idea, so we focused our application on how awesome the founders were. We basically wanted to show that we were smart and we could build things, we figured that would get us to the interview round (and buy us some time to formulate our idea.)

You should apply even if you have to put the application together today. Just for the experience. At worst, you'll waste an afternoon. At best you'll get in, like we did (Cloudant YCS08 - Boston)

Re:Michael Stonebraker: Why Enterprises Are Uninterested in NoSQL? on Thursday September 30, 2010 @04:21PM (#1744677)
I'll admit it was a bit snarky, and written in haste. You said it much better. He wants to play the role of an objective observer here, almost like an expert journalist. But he definitely has skin in the game.
Re:Michael Stonebraker: Why Enterprises Are Uninterested in NoSQL? on Thursday September 30, 2010 @03:50PM (#1744565)
The disclosure at the bottom is laughable. It should read, "Michael Stonebraker has a strong economic incentive to steer enterprises away from NoSQL. Whenever a company chooses NoSQL, he will lose money. Hence, his opinions should be considered in this light." Oh, and full disclosure, I have a strong economic interest in promoting NoSQL.

Cloudant (YC S08) Looking for Erlang/OTP Developers

Posted by ahoff on Tuesday July 06, 2010 @12:27PM
from the now-hiring dept.

Resumator Link: http://cloudant.theresumator.com/apply/sbyZmB/Cloudant is building a scalable distributed database and data analytics service. We're looking for talented and passionate hackers to join our engineering team. Cloudant is a venture-backed startup that was a part of the Summer '08 YC class.To apply, use the link above or email us at [email protected] with your resume, cover letter,...

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Re:Cloudant.com Refresh: CouchDB in the Cloud on Friday December 11, 2009 @12:15PM (#990028)
(full disclosure, I'm a founder at Cloudant)

Thanks for the kind words jot. The guys behind couch.io are smart and talented, and they really know their couchdb, but I don't think that hosting is their primary focus (they can correct me if I'm wrong).

The main technical difference between us and couch.io is the distribution (clustering) layer we've built. This allows a single couch database to be spread across multiple servers. It provides true horizontal scalability, not just multi-master replication. A database can expand elastically based on resource and concurrency needs. In our next release we'll be adding the ability to tune robustness via quorum constants (a la Amazon's dynamo) on a per-document basis. That should be coming soon.

Cloudant (YC S08) Looking For Lead Front End Developer

Posted by ahoff on Wednesday February 11, 2009 @08:15PM
from the now-hiring dept.

Startuply Posting: http://www.startuply.com/Jobs/Lead_Front_End_Developer_792_2...Cloudant is building a highly scalable distributed database service. We're looking for an uber-talented lead front end developer to join us at our Somerville offices. We are a Summer '08 YC company and have recently closed a series A round with a local (Boston) VC.We envision this person to be a jack all trades...

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[Boston] Cloudant Looking for Erlang/OTP Hacker

Posted by ahoff on Wednesday January 07, 2009 @04:36PM
from the now-hiring dept.

Startuply Posting: http://startuply.com/Jobs/Senior_Erlang_OTP_Developer_792_1....Cloudant is building a highly scalable distributed database service. We're looking for a talented and passionate Erlang/OTP developer to join us at our Somerville offices. We are a Summer '08 YC company and have recently closed a series A round with a local (Boston) VC.To apply, send an email to...

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Re:Posterous (YC S08) launches dead simple group blogs, raises angel r... on Monday December 22, 2008 @05:27PM (#406959)
Well done Garry and Sachin. I was always super impressed with how well you guys execute. Congratulations!