zynker

RUST | REMOTE, WORLDWIDE | FULL-TIME

Zynk is building a totally new, all-platform file transfer application that is going to do things right - and will be a breath of fresh air in this crazy world of colossal cloud-powered inefficiency (HN Launch pending).

We're a Rust only shop, hiring a REMOTE Rust developer.

If you're fascinated by efficiency, performance, stability, reliability, doing things right, as well as pushing the boundaries of what modern hardware and networking can do, this may be for you.

If you're not afraid of creating a custom solution that answers the very narrow needs of a task, and and doing it the best way possible, this may be for you.

If you ever thought or pondered about if this insane, bloated cluster of cr*p can be replaced by a single modern machine running some custom code or carefully picked components, this may be for you.

If KISS means something to you and you love the CLI, this may be for you.

If you appreciate what Rust can do for you and the entire lifecycle from dev to robust product, this may be for you.

If you've reached the end of this post, this may be for you.

We're easy, flexible, non bureaucratic and we don't waste time on unnecessary things.

Ignore the website, we're in stealth mode. Apply at: m at zynk.it

It's great, and it works great.

But who the hell gave the final OK on this product?

They have this tablet mounted at the top of the contraption, but unfortunately this tablet is fixed at a certain angle, an angle which MAY be right for people over 2 meters in height but not for the vast majority of their customers.

It stood out immediately the first moment I set my eyes on this thing.

https://i.redd.it/1ipkqq4fzzg71.jpg -- it's literally pointing to the sky.

Maybe they made it better by now but was mind boggling nonetheless.

Because we needed a site to apply for the app stores and various other providers. Also because it's the least interesting thing to work on ;)

The proper site will be up at launch time.

RUST | REMOTE, WORLDWIDE | FULL-TIME

Zynk is building a totally new, all-platform file transfer application that is going to do things right - and will be a breath of fresh air in this crazy world of colossal cloud-powered inefficiency (HN Launch pending).

We're a Rust only shop, hiring a REMOTE Rust developer.

If you're fascinated by efficiency, performance, stability, reliability, doing things right, as well as pushing the boundaries of what modern hardware and networking can do, this may be for you.

If you're not afraid of creating a custom solution that answers the very narrow needs of a task, and and doing it the best way possible, this may be for you.

If you ever thought or pondered about if this insane, bloated cluster of cr*p can be replaced by a single modern machine running some custom code or carefully picked components, this may be for you.

If KISS means something to you and you love the CLI, this may be for you.

If you appreciate what Rust can do for you and the entire lifecycle from dev to robust product, this may be for you.

If you've reached the end of this post, this may be for you.

We're easy, flexible, non bureaucratic and we don't waste time on unnecessary things.

Ignore the website. It's a place holder. Apply at: m at zynk.it

One can also have an opt-out of contact feature.

Sure, so multiply it by whatever you want. 10? You still get 100k a year and not almost a million, or $1.7M :)

100k a year for 100GBps, leaving it up to you to calculate how many petabytes per year you can pass with that.

Salaries: Pretty abusive salaries for a non profit but that seems to be pretty much the standard nowadays, right?

Bandwidth: I took at quick look and see that chat.signal.org resolves to AWS. If they are paying AWS for a lot of bandwidth, that is very expensive. Let's take a quick look:

   They say they use 20PB per year of bandwidth for voice calls alone, this costs them $1.7M a year.  
   
   According to AWS pricing for great customers (suckers) of over 150TB per month, the cost per GB goes waaaay down to $0.05, yay.  1.6PB per month is 1600000GBs, that's $80K a month and therefore $960K a year.

   Very roughly, a 10Gbp/s link to the Internet, from a Tier-1 provider will be around $800 (eight hundred dollars, you're reading this right) a month in a low-bandwidth-cost country like the US, possibly double that in say Asia.

   A 10Gbps link fully utilized (minus some overheads), translates roughly to 3 Petabytes per month, that's 36 petabytes per year, almost double their advertized amount of bandwidth needed for calls per year.

   So we have ~$10K a year (negotiable) for 36PB which is double their bandwidth needs but let's not forget that AWS graciously (geniously) charges for egess only, this means that their actual bandwidth needs are 40PB per year for whatever they are reporting.  So we have $10K for 36PB a year vs $960K a year for 20PB (actually 40PB) of bandwidth from dear Amazon.

   1. Not sure why they are saying the cost is $1.7M per year.
   2. Even at 960K it's daylight robbery.
   3. AWS makes an absolute killing on bandwidth costs.  Best. Business. Model. Ever.
   4. Don't these guys have a Devops pro at $300K+ a year? weird :)

Servers: I won't get into the numbers here as that's a lot more involved, and impossible without more data, but buying and maintaining your own infra, or possibly easier, renting it, would still be quite a lot cheaper than using AWS.

Takeaways: - Storage is something you should buy and maintain (Thanks B!), you swap out old/dying storage devices. See Backblaze.

   - Bandwidth, compute and storage costs at your favorite CSP are absolutely f'ing *outrageous*

   - If you care about your money, your bottom line, do things differently than the *insane* mainstream way of clickity-click on some UIs to provision services without understanding what's really happening under the hood (not saying Signal doesn't understand that part, I'm sure they do), or caring about the added costs of whatever gets so easily "added" to your "infrastructure". 

   - By having your stuff on a CSP you don't even have "infrastructure", but that's juts me.

Anyway, I do love Signal, what they do and what they represent. Keep up the good work.

Signal, mail me at [email protected] if you'd like to talk.

We're aware. We don't want to give out too much info before we launch. It's there so that companies like Microsoft are happy in approving our account. Go figure this world.

Zynk is building a totally new, all-platform file transfer application that is going to do things right - and will be a breath of fresh air in this crazy world of colossal cloud-powered inefficiency (HN Launch pending).

We're a Rust only shop, hiring a REMOTE Rust developer.

If you're fascinated by efficiency, performance, stability, reliability, doing things right, as well as pushing the boundaries of what modern hardware and networking can do, this may be for you.

If you're not afraid of creating a custom solution that answers the very narrow needs of a task, and and doing it the best way possible, this may be for you.

If you ever thought or pondered about if this insane, bloated cluster of crp can be replaced by a single* modern machine running some custom code or carefully picked components, this may be for you.

If KISS means something to you and you love the CLI, this may be for you.

If you appreciate what Rust can do for you and the entire lifecycle from dev to robust product, this may be for you.

If you've reached the end of this post, this may be for you.

We're easy, flexible, non bureaucratic and we don't waste time on unnecessary things.

Apply at: m at zynk.it