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At WePay, we've successfully hired from HackBright and are really happy with the decision. People with non-computer science backgrounds are often able to grok business problems faster because they've been on the other side of the fence.

When I look at candidates (on all levels), I don't necessary need the most experienced person in the world. I look for people who are smart, gritty, and proven that they can learn quickly and effective in whatever role they're placed in.

It's true there aren't many job postings for entry-level developers, I've talked to a lot of folks who are learning that after their bootcamp, they need to do an apprenticeship before they're going to be seriously considered for an entry-level position. Companies that are willing to offer such on-ramps for new developers (and I know many who are building them) can find the incredible talent they need to grow their engineering teams and businesses.

I've been playing with Gobot, really happy with it. Hybrid Group is VERY much behind it, lots of support. For all of you who got drones for Xmas, give it a go with Gobot.

Google's Public Cloud is built on the same 'Planet Scale' infrastructure that their private cloud is set upon. That makes it almost impossible to imagine the scale potential on a global infrastructure that we now have access to.

GCP also has their own dark fiber network links globally connecting their infrastructure. So if you go between regions you never leave their encrypted data links, never travel over the 'dirty internet'. GCP's API has come a long way and is now incredibly easy to use. Major partners are now supporting their infrastructure on the Google Cloud Platform just like AWS.

AWS would have worked for us, but we've tried both and decided to go in favor of GCE.

The platform creates one on their behalf, it's transparent to them.

As Bill makes clear-WePay Clear isn't about fraud protection-we've always been managing risk. It's offering fraud protection, risk mitigation with a white label payments platform-that's a first in payments.

WePay specializes in two-sided applications-where you have buyers and sellers and you're moving money between them. There's a lot more to fraud than a bad credit card. See my other post RE: fraud.

First remember that WePay is for platform companies-ones that want to allow their users to take funds, not single merchant apps. So crowdfunding sites, marketplaces, and business tools like Freshbooks, ConstantContact, and InvoiceASAP. In a two-sided platform, there's a lot more chance of fraud because you have to worry about both the buyer and the seller.

Example: Crowdfunding Campaign. I start a campaign, charge a bunch of stolen cards, pull the money out, and disappear.

WePay uses a wide variety of machine learning, anomaly detection, social risk (through our proprietary Veda Risk Engine), and transaction analysis to stop fraudulent transactions from occurring on our partner platforms.

WePay Connect has all the same fraud features as Clear, but for a lot of brands they want to be the consistent voice across their platform-and rightfully so. WePay Clear allows you to process payments without giving up any of your brand's experience.

We're talking about a community where some of the brightest minds already don't come from a traditional background. Several well-known Rubyists have degrees in Theatre and Music. The community is where all the value is-that's where the innovation is coming from. People build products, so culture is essential.

Full free to submit a pull request. The idea is to make sure the tools and practices make it so a developer is happy writing good, performant code with a good user experience. If the code is ugly and hard, people won't do it.

It's about taking our main tool as developers and making sure it works for us.

Github Issue #2: What do we do after we value something? https://github.com/scottefein/the-happiness-manifesto/issues...

Lend your two cents in the comments...

It's a community at the end of the day, and having conflict like that is actually good. We should have people with different use cases and problem sets sitting in the same room sharing ideas. That's how we can improve as developers.

Sure, but if you shut out people you'll never find out if they're valid or not.

Meritocracy is good, but not when it creates a homogenous pool of points of view.

Really good points-Definitely will add some contrasts to help clarify. Feel free to submit a pull request with your ideas!

Chef. Tungsten Replicator-a powerful infrastructure orchestration tool-is all Ruby.

Ruby is a lot faster than it use to be. But it's a matter of Ruby being complimented by other languages for their best attributes.

If you need a lightening fast API, anecdotal evidence suggests you just can't get it down to the speeds you see with Go. Rack/Ruby just isn't going to cut it.

I think that's a great idea-want to start us off with a pull request? :)