Chief Technology Officer Location: Singapore or Dubai
We’re looking for an energetic CTO who’s not afraid to roll up their sleeves
As CTO for our Security and Privacy Division, you’ll shape the technology vision, development, and product operations for four several major security products and help drive us into the next phase of rapid growth to provide more value to over 6 million customers worldwide.
You’ll own software development, quality assurance, and product operations, leading more than 200 people worldwide (including hubs in London, Germany, Singapore, and Hong Kong).
You’ll take over a team of strong senior leaders and engineers, and it will be your job to empower them, make them more effective, and equip them with the skills and authority to make the best decisions for our products.
We believe in simple solutions for complex problems, and we strive to achieve that not only in our architectures, but also in our processes and organizational structures.
Location ● Full-time based in Dubai or Singapore ● Must be able to travel to Europe and Asia offices several times per year
If interested, please send your resume to: m at getzoneapp.com - asking for a friend
Job Description: Chief Technology Officer
Location: Singapore or Dubai
We’re looking for an energetic CTO who’s not afraid to roll up their sleeves
As CTO for our Security and Privacy Division, you’ll shape the technology vision, development, and product operations for four several major security products and help drive us into the next phase of rapid growth to provide more value to over 6 million customers worldwide.
You’ll own software development, quality assurance, and product operations, leading more than 200 people worldwide (including hubs in London, Germany, Singapore, and Hong Kong).
You’ll take over a team of strong senior leaders and engineers, and it will be your job to empower them, make them more effective, and equip them with the skills and authority to make the best decisions for our products.
We believe in simple solutions for complex problems, and we strive to achieve that not only in our architectures, but also in our processes and organizational structures.
Location
● Full-time based in Dubai or Singapore
● Must be able to travel to Europe and Asia offices several times per year
If interested, please send your resume to m <> getzoneapp.com - asking for a friend.
Just for the sake of enlightening some people. Roughly $1000 per month buys you unlimited/unmetered 10GBe (10GBps) connectivity to your server/rack (do you know what this is?), from a tier-1 network provider.
This translates to roughly 1.2 gigabytes per second (every second of of the month), and 3240 terabytes of data per month - in or out, the choice is yours.
Things scale down as you buy more bandwidth, or commit to a longer contract.
Many would say that $1000 per month is literally "nothing" in terms of costs of service for most real businesses our there, and if you're a happy CSP user, you're probably paying a hell of a lot more than that per month for your infra.
Completely agreed about data gravity, but it's not just that, it's also customer opted-in vendor-lockin.
The customer (because they are lazy, don't know better, aren't capable of, or all three) opts in to use various "convenient" CSP "services". These services could look convenient (and are always pretty to extremely expensive), they quickly becomes an integral part of the customer's badly architected "system".
The end result is complete vendor-lockin, the inability of the poor (stupid) user to leave and the continued gang rape of their bank account (also via additional, incompetent developer and devops "resources").
Throw in average modern "devops" who are hired to handle this. They aren't like the sysadmin of yesteryear, they no longer have experience with, or understand the bits and bytes. They are glorified UI clickers and YAML editors, they even lack any reasonable system level debugging skills. For every problem they encounter they first immediately run to google in search for answers.
In addition, I would argue that CSPs are a huge, huge waste of computing, space and power resources, because their systems completely encourage people to just do things, without understanding what they are doing, screw the consequences and just pay.
Result, the business suffers greatly (on so many levels), the CSP wins big and continues winning.
What happens here is that a system, if designed right from the get go, could have been run on a SINGLE, modern, high end, well positioned and connected server to the Internet, is now replaced with tens to hundreds of "instances" and random assorted CSP provided services -- what a colossal waste.
Books can be written on negligence, lack of understanding, utter tech stupidity and ultimately the costs which are absurd.
Asking for a friend: their company needs an architect an engineer in one who is capable of understanding an overly-complex system that is literally a clusterf*ck of how not to use the cloud including components like ElasticSearch and other assorted garbage and turning it into something modern, performance and cost effective using things like Clickhouse.
It needs to be someone with a passion for performance, building things right, and cost reduction. A passion for taking a huge, overly complex cloud based system and turning it into something great, maintainable and performant, and as a by product, both cheaper to run and maintain.
Open to discuss your stack of choice but would prefer stuff like Rust, Scala and the like.
"No iOS app can run continuously in the background. This means that Möbius Sync can only connect to other devices whilst the app is open, for a short time thereafter, and whenever it is triggered to run briefly in the background."
I for one don't understand why HN people are interested in this? I guess I don't understand HN, this is just so random. But the points speak for themselves. Weird.
Exactly 36 years ago, I was 7 years old and I remember going into an electronics shop that caught my eye.
I was literally always interested in electronics. I finally summoned up the courage and went in. The inside this shop that to me looked like a candy shop, was very friendly man. I ended up convincing my parents to buy me my first electronics kit from him, an audio amp.
I soldered the kit, placed it in a fancy metal box, together with heavy transformer, making the thing pretty beefy, all of which was purchased from him. I remember bringing it to the shop to show it off. He was very happy with my work.
My parents ended up buying more and more kits, and I remember very clearly just randomly coming into the shop when I would pass by for many years later. He was always himself, friendly, helpful, busy helping someone or repairing something, smoking, always smoking.
Not too long ago I passed there again and remember seeing the shop has closed. It was a sad moment.
David, believe it or not is literally the guy who is the repairman mentioned in the story must be at the very least 70 by now. I ended up spending half an hour reading some of the stuff he wrote in the guide, just for the sake of some glimpse of good old times.
I hope he still lives! I'm sure there are many other kids and teens he positively touched.
Austria, is a zone of experimentation for large German companies like T-Mobile, REWE and friends.
Longer explanation, the bottom line is that they can do it and get away with it, why and how are just excuses and cause for infinite talk on the subject. They are allowed to get away with it, and so they will do it, basic economics.
rant/
The same applies to literally the entire world now. With the "new world order" after COVID prices for literally everything have been on the rise, with ample excuses to justify this. Then the "war" in Ukraine came along and gave the greedy in the world yet another new set of excuses to justify increased prices.
Sure, there could have been rational justification to increase costs temporarily, but long term, it feels like a global, coordinated scam.
Take energy prices in Germany and Austria for example. The energy companies were literally given the green light to scam the populace by dramatically hiking the price of fuel, and electricity.
The cost of petrol and diesel almost doubled, the price of electricity (even though MOST of it is made from rivers flowing, therefore with no significant increase in underlying cost to generate) was more than doubled in some cases and kept this way for many, many months.
So since petrol and power now costs double, we can increase all the rest to go along with it, right? Sure, let's do it!
Yeah, the politicians started yammering about how they'll tax these extra profits but the bottom line will be that all of these huge corps will get away with it, and they'll run away with tons of profits that they were never supposed to have.
Are we ever going to go down to pre-war/pre-covid costs and prices? my estimate is that it's highly unlikely and never going to happen. With minor ups and downs on the way to keep us happy and talking, pricing is only going to be trending one way, up.
Way to go our fantastic, democratically elected officials. You guys are so talented, smart and you really seem to care about your people. Give us more of this goodness please, we can't wait! We're going to elect you or your talented replacements as well next time, don't worry about it!
The world is turning into Idiocracy fast, and the speed at which its heading there is only accelerating.
It's really evil and indeed against the customer, and it applies to pretty much any real product out there nowadays from cars to washing machines to water boilers. It's all designed to fall apart, break and stop working.
What about the incalculable environmental factor for all of this? Nobody cares.
I totally agree, there's no economic incentive, and sadly the "industry" will make sure complexity/size/scale will keep on growing. How much more performance and quantity do we need in CPU/RAM/storage/storage bandwidth for regular apps which I assume is the vast majority of computing at home/office.
Sure, games are ever-demanding and will continue going that way probably for a while longer especially on the pure graphics side.
Many apps do contain truck loads of libraries and dependencies, which have dependencies and all of that alone, accounts to massive code size.
I didnt mean to compare it with calculators that are entirely powered by light. More to modern watches, smartwatches and whatever modern devices we have.
Chief Technology Officer Location: Singapore or Dubai We’re looking for an energetic CTO who’s not afraid to roll up their sleeves
As CTO for our Security and Privacy Division, you’ll shape the technology vision, development, and product operations for four several major security products and help drive us into the next phase of rapid growth to provide more value to over 6 million customers worldwide.
You’ll own software development, quality assurance, and product operations, leading more than 200 people worldwide (including hubs in London, Germany, Singapore, and Hong Kong).
You’ll take over a team of strong senior leaders and engineers, and it will be your job to empower them, make them more effective, and equip them with the skills and authority to make the best decisions for our products.
We believe in simple solutions for complex problems, and we strive to achieve that not only in our architectures, but also in our processes and organizational structures.
Location ● Full-time based in Dubai or Singapore ● Must be able to travel to Europe and Asia offices several times per year
If interested, please send your resume to: m at getzoneapp.com - asking for a friend