All of our Sourcegraph docs are public, including our architecture overviews and a myriad other docs linked from there.
https://docs.sourcegraph.com/dev/background-information/arch...
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Sourcegraph (https://sourcegraph.com/) | Director of Product Design, SRE, Software Engineers, Director of Technical Writing, Product Designer | ALL REMOTE
Sourcegraph is code search that helps developers find code and automate large-scale changes.
Our mission is to make code accessible to everyone and bring the power of search to code. We’re doing this by building the Netscape and Google for the world of code—both private code inside companies like Uber, Lyft, Cloudflare, Yelp, and Twitter—and over all open source. We're 100% focused on code search and bringing it to every dev and company.
We plan to index all the open source code in the world and are hiring teammates to join us in doing so. At Sourcegraph, you will be a part of our foundational team to bring universal code search to every developer and company so they can stay in the flow. Come join us!
My biggest endorsement of Sourcegraph is that on Sunday nights I look forward to getting back to it on Monday morning to work with my amazing team and solve hard problems. I struggled with Sunday scaries at my previous job and I've had nothing like that at Sourcegraph.
I highly encourage you to apply if you have even a passing interest in Sourcegraph. Check out our handbook (https://handbook.sourcegraph.com) where we answer most questions you'll have. Or send me an email and I'd gladly chat with you about the company and how we operate.
Sourcegraph (https://sourcegraph.com/) | Engineering Manager, Director of Product Design, SRE, Software Engineers, Director of Technical Writing, Director of Data & Analytics | ALL REMOTE
Sourcegraph is code search that helps developers find code and automate large-scale changes.
Our mission at Sourcegraph is to make code accessible to everyone and bring the power of search to code. We’re doing this by building the Netscape and Google for the world of code—both private code inside companies like Uber, Lyft, Cloudflare, Yelp, and Twitter—and over all open source.
We plan to index all the open source code in the world and are hiring teammates to join us in doing so. Come help us scale code search to be instant across millions of repositories and build the global graph of code by compiling the world!
I'm an EM at Sourcegraph and happy to chat with anybody who thinks they might be interested in helping us grow. We're stacked top to bottom with high quality people that truly care about building a great place to work and leading with empathy. This is the place to be if you're tired of experiencing Sunday scaries every week and want to enjoy what you do and who you do it with.
Please send me a note if you have even a passing interesting in any of our roles! You can find my info in my bio.
jplahn commented on How I negotiated a software-engineering job offer in Silicon Valley blog.usejournal.com/how-i... · Posted by u/sanj
TLDR please?
I don't know if this really qualifies as TL;DR, but they seem to have captured the high-level points:
https://www.freshworks.com/freshsales-crm/sdr-sales-developm...
jplahn commented on How I negotiated a software-engineering job offer in Silicon Valley blog.usejournal.com/how-i... · Posted by u/sanj
I recently finished reading the book Never Split the Difference and I would highly recommend it. It's a slightly different take on the traditional negotiation tropes we've all heard.
I've managed to employ many of the techniques in my day to day as a PM with success, but his discussions on salary negotiation resonated with me. I'm sure you can find some notes on the book to derive 50% of the value, but the author's stories and explanations drove it home for me.
jplahn commented on Fintech startup Plaid raises $250M at a $2.65B valuation techcrunch.com/2018/12/11... · Posted by u/AiaMD13
Giving a plug to https://truelayer.com/.
They have a great team and they're making a big push to bring PSD2 compliant banking integrations to Europe. I haven't heard of many other offerings within Europe.
This is tangentially related to something I've been struggling with for the last year. I began getting into photography about a year and as an attempt to surround myself with inspiration, I followed many of the top landscape photographers on Instagram. While their images are beautiful and they tend to position their photographs from the perspective of "environmentalism", I can't help but feel like they've done as much damage as anything else.
Two examples come to mind. Last year, the USFS extended the lottery permit season in the Enchantments by six weeks due to increasing popularity, no doubt fueled by the incredible pictures of it littered across Instagram. Iceland is a top destination for photographers (for good reason) and I traveled there two months ago, no doubt influenced by the pictures I've seen. But it felt like the country was beginning to get ruined by me and my fellow tourists.
It feels like we're beginning to lose the hidden gems as more and more photographers rush to be the first. But even the non-hidden gems are beginning to get exposed more and more often. But I see the same spots being visited by all photographers and I don't see how they'll handle the continued influx of people:
* Banff NP
* Dolomites
* Iceland
* Lofoten
* Greenland
jplahn commented on Companies Should Pay for Their Employees to Attend Conferences netmeister.org/blog/compa... · Posted by u/walterbell
I know Amazon gets a generally bad rap around HN, but my organization at least pays for all SDEs to attend one conference a year. While not everybody takes advantage of it, those that have typically provide several brown bag sessions to disseminate their learnings to the team.
I've found it very useful both to attend and to learn from those that attended, particularly when I can get the highlights (and potentially new ideas!) of a conference I'd never attend personally.
jplahn commented on Introducing Cloud Spanner, a Global Database Service cloudplatform.googleblog.... · Posted by u/wwilson
Google has to support Google, Youtube and many of the most resources intensive services in existence on Earth. They needed to be "efficient enough" to operate that, meaning incredibly efficient.
Amazon runs nothing, it's an outsourcing firm. They needed to make services "good enough" to be sold. If a service is somewhat inefficient, it just charges the clients more to cover the costs.
Technologies reflect the business they were created in.
You do realize the way most services get into AWS is that they're first built in the retail side of Amazon (without any thought towards AWS) and then once people realize it's effectively solving an actual problem, it's rebuilt for AWS. Having to support Amazon retail is a pretty demanding stress test -- I'm not sure why you're getting this notion that Amazon doesn't run anything. I should think handling Black Friday alone would count for something..
We're currently exploring what it means to support non-git VCSs natively in Sourcegraph, but we're not there yet.