NovoLabs | Dallas, TX | Full-time | Onsite or REMOTE
NovoLabs is a small team focusing on Conversational Commerce in the Restaurant Industry. Our vision is to provide a world class product that allows users to transition from an analogue channel like a Phone or Drive Thru to digital channel.
We're 18 months old and have recently begun taking Transactions from well known restaurants!
As we are still small, we are looking for highly capable, high impact, deep generalists or expert level React / Graphql people.
Our current stack includes: Clojure, React, Graphql, Scala, Finagle, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, Postgresql.
We offer a highly competitive package and would love to hear from you! If you're interested please email me with any questions: [email protected]
I've been jumping between AWS and Google Cloud ( with a bit of Digital Ocean sprinkled in ) for the last several years. I chose Google as our cloud platform when we founded our company last August. I could War and Peace a bunch of things but that article does a very nice job in the details. Instead, I'll give a one liner:
AWS is to Linux as Google Cloud is to FreeBSD. "Rock solid performance and everything is exactly where you think it should be"
I'm happy for the guys at Bouyant, they've been great to work with in the past.
There's a very large complexity payment inherent in the new "cloud native" architectures that fundamentally isn't worth it for a large swath of use cases. Conduit, at first glance, appears like it might solve a large portion of it. If there's anything the last 10 years have shown us as an industry, it's that convention and programmer ease of use are the most important qualities of a new framework or way of working.
Rails / Go / K8S dominating Mesos / Containers over Jails / Maven over ANT / on and on. ActiveRecord is great, and Rails routing is great. Together they are magical for what they provide a user. Envoy is great. Istio is great. But there isn't a simplistic way to unify them even though for 95% of the industry it appears their functionality should go hand in hand.
Nokona gloves are almost comically well made. I've used mine for over 20 years at this point and outside of a once a year oil'ing it has held up remarkably well. My dad has his from the early 60's and while it looks worn ( he hasn't taken care of it ) it's still very usable.
Alan Jacobs has a pithy overview of Morton, and the following is taken from a recent post on Morton by him:
This strategy of employing familiar language in unfamiliar contexts gives the appearance of being radical but may not be quite that. It strikes me as being largely a reversal of Skinnerian behaviorism: the behaviorists said that human beings are nothing special because they're just like animals and plants, responding to stimuli in law-governed ways; now the object-oriented ontologists say that human beings are nothing special because animals and plants (and hammers and black holes) all possess the traits of consciousness and desire that we have traditionally believed to be distinctive to us. The goal of the philosophical redescription seems to be the same: to dethrone humanity, to get us to stop thinking of ourselves as sitting at the pinnacle of the Great Chain of Being.
It's hard for me to take Morton too seriously because our ( by which I mean his and mine ) Metaphysics are so diametrically opposed. Hyperobjects are so ontologically complex as to give the feeling they have been invented solely to justify the philosopher's pre-existing beliefs ( though in fairness, you can write that about a lot of things ).
NovoLabs is a small team focusing on Conversational Commerce in the Restaurant Industry. Our vision is to provide a world class product that allows users to transition from an analogue channel like a Phone or Drive Thru to digital channel.
We're 18 months old and have recently begun taking Transactions from well known restaurants!
As we are still small, we are looking for highly capable, high impact, deep generalists or expert level React / Graphql people.
Our current stack includes: Clojure, React, Graphql, Scala, Finagle, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, Postgresql.
We offer a highly competitive package and would love to hear from you! If you're interested please email me with any questions: [email protected]