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Shiplify | Senior Platform Engineer | Full-time | Atlanta, GA or Remote (US timezones)

Shiplify (www.shiplify.com) is the industry-leading provider of location intelligence to the Less-than-Truckload (LTL) shipping market. Shipping carriers rely on Shiplify to identify location types, applicable tariffs, loading dock and forklift access for hundreds of thousands of pick-up and delivery locations per day.

We’re looking for a Senior Platform Engineer with a focus on infrastructure, security, and compliance. The company has been profitable for years, yet continues to grow quickly. We solve challenging problems using interesting technologies in an outdated industry.

Our infrastructure stack is Terraform, AWS, and Docker, and we run Ruby/Rails, React, Postgres, PyTorch, and Heroku.

Apply: https://bit.ly/3RTf5De

Shiplify | Senior Platform Engineer | Full-time | Atlanta, GA or Remote (US timezones)

Shiplify (www.shiplify.com) is the industry-leading provider of location intelligence to the Less-than-Truckload (LTL) shipping market. Shipping carriers rely on Shiplify to identify location types, applicable tariffs, loading dock and forklift access for hundreds of thousands of pick-up and delivery locations per day.

We’re looking for a Senior Platform Engineer with a focus on infrastructure, security, and compliance. The company has been profitable for years, yet continues to grow quickly. We solve challenging problems using interesting technologies in an outdated industry.

Our infrastructure stack is Terraform, AWS, and Docker, and we run Ruby/Rails, React, Postgres, PyTorch, and Heroku/AWS.

Apply: https://bit.ly/3wOzOy0

Shiplify | Full Stack Developer | Atlanta, GA; Summit County, CO; REMOTE (US timezones) | FULL-TIME | https://shiplify.com

Shiplify helps shipping carriers to charge their customers correctly. We're bringing valuable data analytics to an industry that has been slow to adopt it, and we've seen significant opportunities to contribute to our customers' bottom line as a result.

Tech stack:

- Ruby on Rails

- Rspec (testing is important to us)

- React

- Postgres+PostGIS

- ElasticSearch

- scikit-learn

- Heroku

- AWS

Our culture:

- based in Atlanta, GA (Westside)

- one engineer on-site

- another engineer remote in Summit County, CO (in the mountains, near Breckenridge)

- ego-free and results-driven workplace

- we use Slack constantly to text- and video-chat

- we use Pivotal Tracker to plan upcoming work

We're looking for full-stack engineer #3 (~70% back-end, 30% front-end) to help build new products and support existing ones. We'd love to hear about your work and personal projects (passion projects go a long way), and your passion for crafting (or learning to craft) high-quality code.

Ready to apply? Have a peer, mentor, or past employer vouch for you via email to engineering at shiplify.com.

That’s right, it shouldn’t come from you. ;-)

We've been frustrated to the point of abandonment on trying to install a Blackberry simulator to test out jquery-mobile apps. Similar story to tell--just kept hitting wall after wall of poorly thought-out and poorly documented steps.

It's a shame because most of our customers use Blackberries but it's just not practical for us to support Blackberry on our mobile apps.

In my experience Rackspace is good at providing customer support on top of single managed server instances. Their Cloud Sites and Cloud Files offerings (akin to ec2 and s3) feel less than stable, and their management interface encounters unrecoverable errors many times each session. In their Chicago data center they don't allow moving backup snapshots to s3-like storage, all backups are stored with the server. This alone should be a red flag to anyone who is doing any cloud hosting. It just feels like something they're trying to get into, instead of a core competency.

Amazon on the other hand has a much more diverse offering that feels at least somewhat battle tested and polished. They offer you the ability to clone a running server with single click, backups to s3, CDN, block stores, map-reduce, etc. They've also been around for a while, which isn't proof of a good product but it gives you a better feeling that they're serious about the business of cloud hosting (not just hosting).

Not that Amazon doesn't also have its issues. I've heard multiple reports of servers simply "disappearing", which is worrisome.

The other way to solve this problem would have been for TV manufacturers to install limiters in TVs. The technology has been around for decades but it has never caught on. Regulation is a less-ideal solution to the problem vs technology because the feedback loop is long. Install a limiter in your TV today and the problem is solved immediately.

Seems like the manufacturing side might also be a market failure--it's a feature that most/all consumers want but since the market is fiercely price-competitive no manufacturer wants to pay for it. Still, it seems like a feature that Sony/LG/etc could advertise and gain a small amount of market share for.

It's called a Limiter or Compressor and musicians have been using them for decades.

Talk with some web designers who have been looking for a decent gui tool for git. They don't want to learn to use command line and aren't happy with existing tool support. They are your market. Go to a local designer meetup group and sell your software to every one of them.

Iterate on feedback, absolutely, but don't iterate on feedback of hackers, iterate on feedback of people who actually want your software and are in your target market.

If you're dead-set on developers as your market, there are a ton of folks who still use svn with a gui because "no good git guis exist". These are the non-power-users of version control. You're not likely to find them here or on super-technical sites, but they do exist and there are many of them. The unfortunate part is that if you market to them you'll probably end up having to build an Eclipse plug-in.

Very cool, very usable.

Where you could improve: seems rather slow to load on Safari/Mac. Also bothers me that the mouse-over for sections near 333 is off-screen at 1280x960. Could you have it show up on the other side of the pin, just like it does when I click?

I've had Safari lose my sessions multiple times recently, including just now when iTunes lost my session multiple times while trying to edit account info. I'm assuming iTunes (on Mac) uses Safari under the hood?

Facebook used to lose my session when I was using Adium to connect to Facebook chat. Haven't used the Adium/Facebook integration recently, but give that a look if it bugs you.

In response to the security threat posed by terrorist babies climbing into luggage bins, the TSA has decreed that all children under the age of 8 are hereby forbidden from entering airports.

Take that, terrorists!

Atlas Shrugged - finally got around to reading it after dozens of recommendations from good friends. Shocking how relevant and prophetic it is, especially with respect to the events of 2009.

>> The beneficiary of this "interest" is the monetary issuer (the central bank)

Seems like the beneficiary of the "interest" is anyone who holds debt against that currency. For instance, if I borrow $1k from a good friend who charges no interest, and pay him back in a year, the $1k he receives at the end of the year will buy him less than it would have previously.

In practice an lender does charge interest but assuming that interest rates, like any other product, is priced not by cost but by what the market will bear, the lender must bear the cost of inflation.

>> there's no way you can opt-out outside of reverting to bartering for goods directly.

Bartering for goods _can_ carry the same risk of inflation if others are able to flood the market with competitive goods. But in a single-currency system we have a central agency that is able to produce money without producing wealth. And producing money without producing wealth is what leads to inflation.

You're absolutely correct, but in evite's case they are storing them permanently. That's actually the reason I posted this was that I forgot my password and requested a reset (~5 years after signup) and they sent it to me in plain text.

Risk, Settlers of Catan, Puerto Rico

Someone just set up an Atlanta startup community board game night where we get startup-minded folks to play strategy board games like these once a quarter.

Need a descriptive catchphrase under your logo. I like how you have lots of whitespace but it feels empty, need to add more content, especially on the right side.

It's not immediately apparent how your app is different from a blog...

And I agree that you should choose a single brand for your site, either Glogger or PeerViewr. See here: http://blog.weatherby.net/2009/02/yes-master.html

My experience so far with BackType has been decent. I'd love to see it integrated with a service like Google Analytics since conversations are becoming a more significant part of analytics these days.

Yeh I didn't think about that either, but I suppose it's true at least for the short term--especially for hiring! Long term it'll depend on the strength of the dollar, especially if all the new bailout money causes significant inflation.

Another well-illustrated example of the fact that users don't know what they want, you have to A/B Test it out of them.

Correct. I think we're comparing two different things. I was talking about YC-style seed-stage funding vs other startups. You were talking about YC vs TechStars. Apples and oranges. No disrespect to TechStars, that's just not what I was talking about.

I'd wager that YC companies are statistically more fund-able or exit-able than other similar stage startups out there. They've been through a round of screening, chosen and mentored by successful entrepreneurs who do it for a living--it's certainly a leg up.

One of the big advantages of YC is the notoriety associated with being a YC company. Easier introductions to press, investors, and partners. Notice how much coverage YC companies got on TechCrunch this last round? There's a reason, it's because YC does a great job pre-selecting good companies to showcase to press/investors and they've built up a good reputation on that.

Shotput Ventures is a new one launching in Atlanta this summer. It will follow the YC model to the letter.

http://www.shotputventures.com/