Perihelion (u/Perihelion)

Perihelion commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2021) · Posted by u/whoishiring

Perihelion · 4 years ago

Meltano | All positions are full time and remote | https://meltano.com (follow the code blocks on our website for a demo!)

We're a seed stage startup that recently spun out of GitLab. A bit about us:

Meltano is an open source DataOps platform that brings together best-in-class open source tools and technologies for the data lifecycle, including the Singer standard for data integration, dbt for transformation, Airflow for orchestration, and soon Superset for visualization. It simplifies configuration, deployment, and monitoring, and lets data teams benefit from DevOps best practices such as version control, code review, and CI/CD.

Stack: Meltano and the Meltano SDK are written in Python. Vue.js (as part of VuePress) and Bulma CSS are used on the front end.

Open Roles:

- Backend Engineer - Senior Backend Engineer - Senior Frontend Engineer - Head of Partnerships - Content Marketing Manager - DataOps Evangelist - Senior Support Engineer - Technical Marketing Manager - Senior UI/UX Designer

Apply online at https://meltano.com/jobs. If you have questions please reach out to us on Slack: https://meltano.com/slack

Perihelion commented on Meltano raises $4.2M seed round meltano.com/blog/2021/06/... · Posted by u/visch

simonw · 4 years ago

https://meltano.com/ right now says:

"ELT for the DataOps era

Meltano is open source, self-hosted, CLI-first, debuggable, and extensible."

That doesn't tell me what Meltano is.

I happen to recognise "ELT" as "Extract, load, transform" but I imagine a lot of people would have to look up the acronym.

I hadn't seen the term DataOps before, despite working in this area. DevOps for Data? But the definition of DevOps itself is still pretty vague!

I know how hard it is to explain what a product like this does - I'm definitely not there with my own https://datasette.io/ project yet - but what you've got right now could definitely do with some improvement.

Here's my attempt for Meltano, based on a very loose understanding of what it is:

"Meltano is an open-source tool for building automated pipelines for extracting and converting data. Pipelines are defined using version-controlled code, and the framework can be extended using plugins written in Python."

This really isn't very good, but it does fill in the questions that I had when I first visited https://meltano.com/

Perihelion · 4 years ago

Thanks! This is really useful feedback. To date, Meltano has been geared towards data folks who are likely to understand these concepts and acronyms, but there's definitely a need to explain it for folks who aren't as familiar. We're going to be working on the website copy in the coming weeks to make it easier to understand with as little digging as possible. If you think of anything else please feel free to reach out to us.

Perihelion commented on WordPress theme provider Pipdig using customer sites to DDoS competitors jemjabella.co.uk/2019/sec... · Posted by u/JamieF1

ceejayoz · 6 years ago

Not just inaccurate, but heavily misleading as well.

"Older version", for example, is only true because they pushed a new version after getting caught that stripped out the nasty code.

Perihelion · 6 years ago

Definitely. That they're trying to position this as an oversight is frankly disgusting. That code was intentional.

Perihelion commented on Ask HN: How do you organise your hard drive? · Posted by u/cogs

raindropm · 7 years ago

I have one simple rule that I (magically) am able to stick with for so long - make sure you clean up at the end of the day. No file on Desktop/Downloads, file things in their rightful place - or delete right away if it's not important.

Sound mundane, but once you just did it, it usually took about what, 5 minutes? But the impact the next time you turn on your computer and see the clean workspace without guilt is great.

Another tip is the same as commenter about trash bin above - let software automatically clean things for you at certain time, and you'll never worried about it again.

Perihelion · 7 years ago

This so much. It works really for your house too. I find that decluttering my physical and digital workspace at the end of the day means I'm not stressed about mess in the morning.

Perihelion commented on A proposal to move Gnome to GitLab lwn.net/Articles/722870/... · Posted by u/rbanffy

Shamiq · 8 years ago

The email address field in your user form isn't public. you need to add it to text in your description.

Perihelion · 8 years ago

Yeah, it was there (along with a note on how to get free stickers) but now it's gone. Keybase stuff is still there though. Random.

Perihelion commented on A proposal to move Gnome to GitLab lwn.net/Articles/722870/... · Posted by u/rbanffy

arctangent · 8 years ago

So much hate in this thread!

@Perihelion: Allow me to be the one who says "thanks for your efforts" and "keep up the good work".

My team are using GitLab to manage development and we're happy with how it's going so far.

Perihelion · 8 years ago

Thanks so much for your kind words! We're always trying to improve, so even though some of the comments are negative, it's still good to hear about pain points so we can fix them.

Perihelion commented on A proposal to move Gnome to GitLab lwn.net/Articles/722870/... · Posted by u/rbanffy

notatoad · 8 years ago

>shoot me an email (located in my profile)

no it isn't?

Perihelion · 8 years ago

Hmm, not sure what happened. It was there, now it's not. It's amanda@gitlab.com -- sorry about that.

Perihelion commented on A proposal to move Gnome to GitLab lwn.net/Articles/722870/... · Posted by u/rbanffy

ghrifter · 8 years ago

One issue I encounter often-ish is that when I'm on a gitlab page then hit the back button in the browser - I get a bunch of JSON spit onto the page instead of an actual HTML document.

Whats up with that?

Perihelion · 8 years ago

I've actually experienced this exact thing. Usually a refresh fixes it for me so I never gave it too much thought. I'm not sure what causes it exactly but I'll follow up with the team about it. It usually happens to me on merge requests -- do you notice it on specific pages at all?

Perihelion commented on A proposal to move Gnome to GitLab lwn.net/Articles/722870/... · Posted by u/rbanffy

iambvk · 8 years ago

Am I the only one who thinks gitlab is a poor product?

They upgrade every week. Who the hell does that to paying customers? And half of their website functionality doesn't work when they upgrade -- but their upgrade-banner always says "no down time is expected". It is a running joke in my company.

We constantly get error 500 during upgrades. Merge requests don't commit. Rebase feature didn't work till a few weeks back. Gitlab runners get stuck every now and then. I use it everyday because of company policy, but folks, Gitlab is a really poor product. Feels like they test their product on paying customers.

Also, do they even know how good their competition is at? You can't see the what is changed in response to your comment between two MR uploads. You can't add comments on unchanged parts of the code in the diff-view. You can't add comments when you view the diff between two uploads of an MR. My list of complaints is endless.

Perihelion · 8 years ago

I'm really sorry to hear about the crappy experience you've had with GitLab. If you'd like to detail some more complaints, I'd love to hear them and open some issues about these things. Feel free to shoot me an email (located in my profile) or reply here. Either way, thanks for the feedback you've provided here.

As far as the frequent upgrades go, we've been using .com as a way of dogfooding GitLab at scale. Sometimes this goes well and other times it doesn't. We're actively working to improve this process so that downtime and breaking changes are less frequent. The end goal is to eradicate both issues so that upgrades are seamless.