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Scalyr is a log management SaaS, a part of monitoring & observability stack. Our vision is "to be the leading source of community engagement on the use and impact of observability", and we have a compelling log management product that we are famous for! [store and search petabytes of data, blazing fast queries (sub 200ms) and high ingestion rates (TB/s)]. Scaly's technology stack is built from the ground up, optimizing it for speed and scalability. We are growing in terms of both data we host and customers!

If you are a frontend engineer (React, GraphQL) or a generalist software engineer who wants to be part of a hyper growth startup and want to work with talented engineers who challenge you, please reach out to us.

We are upgrading our infrastructure and seek the help of a DevOps engineer and thinker to transform our operations to a modern tech stack, learn from it and improve the product for our customers. We run on AWS.

We value transparency and collaboration.

If you are interested, please get in touch with Lakshmi - saasy_log=scalyr mail -s "Hire me" jobs@${saasy_log}.com

Office is in San Mateo close to caltrain station. We can consider remote post COVID too! We offer 100% employer paid medical benefits among other things! We value you and your family!

PS: If you use silver searcher or ripgrep or ack to grep through your code, you’ll like us.

> May I suggest you try out Scalyr?

No. Please stop.

Have you tried Scalyr? I am an employee at Scalyr and been in the infra space for quite a while. I think our logging product is the best I've used personally. Searches are actually fast.

Speed hasn't really been an issue with any of the providers I've tried except Loggly which has a very slow UI if you run into big messages. Even with ingesting 200gb of logs a day at one job, per environment, Sumo wasn't slow that I recall.

Of course, we didn't try to negotiate, but it looks more expensive than Sumo. At one company we were spending around $600k a year on it, and it looks like you would cost closer to 1m.

Not to be rude, but jumping into comment sections about your competitor's S1 and replying to comments praising them looks pretty bad.

I tried hard not to be sales person and replied to people who were looking for logging product. I understand where you are coming from though!

The fingerprint reader is not yet supported on 6th gen X1.I never tried to get the LTE modem working. Funnily, I didn't even realize that the slot existed for almost a year after purchase.

I don't know which model of fingerprint reader is in the 6th gen, but on the 7th gen, enabling the beta firmware made it work perfectly.

  $ fwupdmgr enable-remote lvfs-testing

If you temporarily enable, apply the Prometheus fingerprint updates then disable you won't need to worry about installing unstable firmware that will affect the system more widely.

> I don't know which model of fingerprint reader is in the 6th gen, but on the 7th gen, enabling the beta firmware made it work perfectly.

The USB id of the fingerprint reader on X1C6 is 06cb:009a while on X1C7 it is 06cb:00bd.

This is the list of supported devices: https://fprint.freedesktop.org/supported-devices.html

As you can see the one for X1C7 is supported, X1C6 unfortunately isn't.

This is their gitlab issue for it: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libfprint/libfprint/issues/13...

I'm getting the following after doing that:

    Firmware metadata has not been updated for 30 days and may not be up to date.

    Update now? (Requires internet connection) [y|N]: y
    Fetching metadata https://cdn.fwupd.org/downloads/firmware-testing.xml.gz
    Downloading…             [***************************************] Less than one minute remaining…
    Fetching signature https://cdn.fwupd.org/downloads/firmware-testing.xml.gz.asc

    Failed to update metadata for lvfs-testing: '48A6D80E4538BAC2' is not a valid signature

Anyone else seen that?

fwupdmgr / LVFS is such a breath of fresh air compared to the various old vendor specific fw update procedures!

The novelty of updating firmware via a GUI on Linux still hasn't worn off.

It works on gen 7 with Ubuntu 20.04. I think it wasn't out of the box though and I needed to do some tweaks

This is awesome! I am a frontend noob and I've been learning a whole lot of things last 4 weeks and got a Vue SPA with Cognito auth, AWS amplify, Quasar and Vuex. I don't like the output I see in the browser and it pisses me off really. I am yet to cover UX, CSS/Stylus/SCSS and I see a bunch of bundle size warnings that I've no idea how to fix. For people like me, this project would reduce the bootstrap time significantly. I see you plan to add support for Vue etc but man, you're building something very valuable. Kudos.

Thanks for the kind words! Totally understand the frustration of trying to piece everything together. Been there many times and why I finally decided to give this idea shot :)

Matt,

I am not a US citizen but my wife is and I have been pestering her to apply to USDS for a project manager/business analyst position. We value the importance of work you are doing but we rarely see openings for her role. Sorry for posting this here but it would be awesome for her to at least chat with you folks. She has plenty of experience working with federal agencies.

Hey, I would ask her to go ahead and apply--we're always taking applications--and then indicate in the text field that she's closer to a project manager.

We have been reworking some of our competencies on product and delivery, but I'd still like to see whether it might be a match.

Hey Mat! I have a political science background and about a year of experience in coding/development. Do you all offer internships or have entry level positions?

In the last few months, I have leaned more towards audio based learning but I have realized that personally audio is great for shorter content (less than 1 hr). After 1 hour, I get distracted because I feel like I could listen and do something else. Then when I pause and think what I got out of the last few mins of hearing, I realize I wasn't paying real attention. I also tried listening for 1 hour, taking a break and listening for another hour. I am unable to recollect what I listened last time while I have no problem recollecting material I read. For example, I am "reading" two books simultaneously now - one from kindle and another via audible. If you asked me what I learnt from the audible book,I would struggle to summarize. I am part of a book club and one of the women I see there has great notes on every book she has read. She was telling us how audiobooks aren't any good because to truly understand content, you need to pause, assimilate what you just read and process it (she writes it down). Audiobooks do not give that break. I usually ask Alexa to pause and resume but it plain sucks to do that.

I'm an avid audiobook reader. (My wife gets annoyed when I call it "reading", but still.) I personally wouldn't use audiobooks for learning and assimilating brand-new content to a high level of detail. It's just too tough that way.

But I also find that that's rarely my goal when listening to an audiobook. Fiction is the obvious example. Unless you're studying a book for school or something, I think audio is a great way to take in a book. There's also "non-critical" non-fiction which I find works really well. Books like Sapiens or People's History of the United States, or books on management techniques, where you're more interested in the concepts and high-level material rather than retaining specific details. I would happily do audiobook for a book club, but not for a school assignment. That's just my experience though, results may vary.

Your reasoning and the conclusion resonates a lot with my own findings for a project that we tried to bootstrap. GCP's GKE and Istio integration are becoming more compelling to consider them for containerized workloads. EKS isn't quite there. One of the things we are struggling with is finding a qualified partner who can help us build our new project on GCP. We don't have a mature infrastructure team and while we try to bootstrap one, we would like to rely on partners to help us move the needle. Even partners in GCP premier list don't have case studies of migrating monoliths to GCP. Most of them talk about GSuite migration which isn't quite the same. AWS wins this battle. They have far more mature partners with better track record and thought leadership. I wonder if you see this the same way. Maybe partnership is not crucial for you? Some insights from the community would help.

Yes. AWS biggest advantage now is the giant marketplace of vendors and partners so you can get help and managed services for just about anything.

In my experience, most startups just want managed options they can run themselves rather than engaging partners but if that's what you need then AWS will have more companies to offer, although GCP does have qualified partners. I recommend contacting one of the GCP developer advocates either in this thread or on twitter for help, or email me separately and I'll put you in touch.

Also I havent worked with them but https://shinesolutions.com/ has put out plenty of articles and case studies that seems to show they're pretty capable, that might work for you.

Just curious, Which support tier you are using from GCP?

For an early stage startup/Indie developer, GCP support model is not appeasing. $100 Per user for development role is unacceptable. (at least to us, the stage where we are now)

We use the production roles but you don't have to signup every single person, just those who file tickets and interact with support.

If you're very early then you can also try the older support pricing: https://cloud.google.com/support/premium/

If that's still too expensive then you can probably rely on the free support and forums until you have more spend and revenue.

Depending where you're based, there are some very good partners that can help here. It really depends on what level of cooperation you're looking for from "here, you do it" to "just give us guidance along the way".

https://cloud.google.com/solutions/migration-center/ is a reasonable jumping off point. Sorry if that didn't come up more clearly.

We have talked to Velostrata and some other GCP partners. It's hard to assess their usefulness. Unfortunately, they don't have much of open source credibility. Picking by case studies seems like picking out a car by reading advertising material.

This might sound like piling on a specific class of people but from my observation (I lived in the valley for 5 years all the way from San Francisco to San Jose), young white people crave for a lifestyle that is completely urban and do not want to make a commute sacrifice. Several of my ex coworkers would see it beneath themselves to get on public transportation. The demographics of people in an office changes significantly as you travel south from San Francisco to San Jose. The healthy balance in terms of demographics seems to exist at places like Mountain View/Palo Alto. During my five years, I set my rent cost goal to be 2500$ per month (and I didn't want roommates). I moved to keep the rent a constant while my salary was increasing marginally year over year. I ended up at Milpitas after 5 years but it wasn't bad at all :). I did miss drinking with coworkers and socializing but instead I could focus on health (both physical and mental). Now I moved to east coast and could afford a nice home etc and my mortgage is still close to 2500$ mark in DC suburbs. My large point is - Nashville will become San Francisco because it will be filled with young people congregating in some spots whereas some neighborhood 20 mins from Nashville downtown will have no takers. In several ways, the problem is self inflicted.

Nashville has a long ways to go before it becomes SF. Maybe in 5 decades?

Why expect any city to become another?

Agreed. There will only ever be one SF. And Nashville has it's own character I hope it maintains as it grows. But I also hope they're not so anti-growth that they choke off development. At any rate, nimbyism seems to be less prominent in the South, in my experience, so I bet they'll embrace the growth.