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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2022) on Friday June 03, 2022 @03:47AM (#31605421)
Downdetector | Senior Software Engineer (Backend) | Remote Europe, Hybrid Dublin | Full Time | https://apply.workable.com/ookla/j/96AF1FC02E/ We're Downdetector, part of Ookla. We are the world's most popular platform for online service status information with over 25 million monthly reports from individual users. This gives us the ability to help make the internet better, faster and more accessible for everyone.

We are a small team within a bigger organisation with plenty of opportunity to have direct impact on features and growth.

As a Senior Software Engineer (backend), you will help build features to give back to our users. You'll have the opportunity to work both on our public sites, apps and api's, as well as our enterprise solutions. We mostly work with Python and Django, and our backend stack is fully Serverless.

Senior Software Engineer (Backend) - https://apply.workable.com/ookla/j/96AF1FC02E/

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2022) on Monday April 04, 2022 @09:28AM (#30906392)
Downdetector | Software Engineer (Backend) | Remote Europe, Hybrid Dublin | Full Time | https://apply.workable.com/ookla/j/96AF1FC02E/

We're Downdetector, part of Ookla. We are the world's most popular platform for online service status information with over 25 million monthly reports from individual users. This gives us the ability to help make the internet better, faster and more accessible for everyone.

We are a small team within a bigger organisation with plenty of opportunity to have direct impact on features and growth.

As a Software Engineer (backend), you will help build features to give back to our users. You'll have the opportunity to work both on our public sites, apps and api's, as well as our enterprise solutions. We mostly work with Python and Django, and our backend stack is fully Serverless.

Software Engineer (Backend) - https://apply.workable.com/ookla/j/96AF1FC02E/

Re:Are WhatsApp and Instagram down at the moment? on Sunday April 14, 2019 @08:38AM (#19659042)
Yeah, partially at least, see https://downdetector.com/status/facebook
Re:No more XS4ALL is unthinkable on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @06:34AM (#18919951)
I have seen this somewhere around 2014 when I got a tour of one of their datacenters, it definitely was more than one box, iirc it was a couple of 4u boxes, maybe half a rack high. It think it was marked with the archive.org logo.
Afaik since last year an ID is required in The Netherlands as well.
Re:Pull to Refresh.js on Friday June 15, 2018 @07:47AM (#17319037)
Is this the same font used by the (scannable) homekit activation keys, which are usually printed on the box/device?
They do get their tags automagically from the CF stack, right? (haven't tested it myself, but that's usually what happens)
Re:AWS X-Ray – Distributed Tracing System on Friday December 02, 2016 @03:49AM (#13087118)
geh, I was there as well :)

I concur, it was specifically stated that 100% sampling is an option (and is by default?)