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How we are trying to reduce the pains of building a data application using Dozer

Hi,I'm Matteo, one of the co-founder of Dozer. I have posted here before about our project, but we were very early and only had just a bit more of a prototype. The project has evolved quite a lot and I'm quite happy with the experience we are building.Fundamentally, with Dozer it's now possible to define all connections to your databases, data warehouses or object stores, provide some SQL...

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Who owns and manage product documentation in your OSS / dev tool startup?

Hi HN,I'm Matteo and co-founder of Dozer (https://github.com/getdozer/dozer), a backend tool for building data products. Over the past few months we have done good progress with the product development but our documentation needs a lot of work. Myself, my co-founder and the entire team are juggling among many activities, and one of them is producing good documentation, and that is the part...

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We now only hire engineers using OSS paid bounties (and it's awesome)

At getdozer.io we started using Algora to create a few paid bounties on our GitHub repo. However, we soon realized that this OSS bounties approach is the best way to hire great engineers!Here is why:We get to test candidates on real-world problems, instead of asking them to solve some meaningless programming puzzles.Because candidates get paid for the work they contribute, it is fair to ask for...

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Unified data view across Microservices: Temporal and Dozer?

Hey HN,As one of the co-founders of Dozer (https://github.com/getdozer/dozer), I stumbled upon this awesome article from the Temporal folks (https://temporal.io/blog/saga-pattern-made-easy) and got super excited about the potential synergy between Dozer and Temporal.While Temporal nails the orchestration of microservices, I couldn't help but notice the challenge of consolidating data across...

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Show HN: The Future of Data APIs

Hello everyone,I'm Matteo, and, over the last few months, I have been working with my co-founder and other folks from Goldman Sachs, Netflix, Palantir, and DBS Bank to simplify building data APIs. I have personally faced this problem myself multiple times, but, the inspiration to create a company out of it really came from this Netflix article...

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