I led the engineering team of a large adtech company (TripleLift - order of hundreds of billions of events/day) and we evolved from self hosting Kafka, to paying a vendor (Instacluster), to migrating to RedPanda.
RedPanda was a huge win for us. Confluent never made sense to us since we were always so cost conscious but the complexity/risk of managing a critical part of our infra was always something I worried about. RedPanda was able to handle both for us - cheaper than Kafka hosting vendors with significantly better performance. We were pretty early customers but was a huge win for us.
Twing.AI | AI/Full-Stack Engineer & Forward Deployed Engineer | Remote (US-friendly timezones) or NYC | Full-time or Part-time
We’re a lean (4 people, 3 of which are engineers), bootstrapped team building a private-equity automation platform (deal analysis, document processing, chat, investment theme research). Shipping fast, learning daily, and looking for hands-on engineers who want outsized impact.
- Why join: small team with direct ownership of core product, zero bureaucracy, Greenfield decisions and ability to learn extremely quickly, you’ll ship to paying users weekly.
AI / Full-Stack Engineer
- Own features end-to-end: data ingestion → AI pipelines → UI.
- Design and tune LLM/embedding flows; keep latency/cost in check.
- Requirements: strong TypeScript/Node, modern React, SQL + data modeling; comfort evaluating/using AI models; bias to ship.
Forward Deployed Engineer
- Work directly with customers (PE analysts/partners) to turn messy workflows into productized features.
- Rapidly prototype, measure impact, harden for production.
- Requirements: full-stack chops, great product sense, calm under ambiguity, willing to jump between code, data, and customer calls.
Happy to also talk to the self-taught. We care more about ability than credentials and value slope over intercept.
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I worked at an adtech company where we invested a bit in HA across AZ + regions. Lo and behold there was an AWS outage and we stayed up. Too bad our customers didn't and we still took the revenue hit.
Lesson here is that your approach will depend on your industry and peers. Every market will have their won philosophy and requirements here.
To play devil's advocate Prolog is considered much more similar to SQL than any other language and I suspect that will have an extremely high learning cost. That may be me being biased due to learning procedural languages first. At the same time I consider myself well versed in SQL.
Other than the fact that this is offensive and shouldn't have been posted - did you read the article? The conclusion was that they both had a recessive trait that manifested itself in their son.
RedPanda was a huge win for us. Confluent never made sense to us since we were always so cost conscious but the complexity/risk of managing a critical part of our infra was always something I worried about. RedPanda was able to handle both for us - cheaper than Kafka hosting vendors with significantly better performance. We were pretty early customers but was a huge win for us.