From grace at lolapps.com Tue Jan 4 23:27:59 2011 From: grace at lolapps.com (Grace Law) Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 14:27:59 -0800 Subject: [DCPIGgies] Can you help with Server/Scalability challenges at huge social gaming site? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi there, Want to move to San Francisco and work with a group of smart, fun people and LOL at the office? My HR manager said we can relocate you :) http://lolapps.com is a 2 year old, cash flow positive social gaming / Facebook App company. About 40 people now and plan to get to 60-70 in the next 6 to 12 months. Big Python/Pylons shop building high quality Flash games. You can find out how we scaled from 0 to 50 million users from this video at the last PyCon. http://us.pycon.org/2010/conference/schedule/event/135/ :) We're looking for a seasoned server/performance engineer to do more of that. More details here: *Python Server/Scalability Engineer * http://lolapps.com is looking for a seasoned performance engineer. You know the thrill and the terror of an unexpected traffic storm that's railed your application. You think on your feet, adapt and make a genius patch that let's your servers hold to see out the storm, then hit the whiteboard to start architecting a solution that will handle the next storm with ease. Ideally, you: * Love python and can code it in your sleep. * Working knowledge of Linux, scripting, and SQL. * Understand when MySQL is great and experiment with NoSQL solutions (Memcached/Mongo/Redis/Cassandra) * Know how to put together a web-application stack. (We use Pylons/Paste.) * Enjoy bouncing ideas of your teammates to build up solutions no one person could of thought up by themselves. * Care about your implementations and find yourself compulsively checking that your latest experimental deploy is working the way you thought it would. You'll get to: * Work in an innovative space that is expanding into a billion dollar industry. * Design and implement large chunks of scalability features. * Help make key infrastructure decisions (databases, replication layouts, caching solutions, etc.). * Experiment with the newest emerging open-source technologies. * Test your ideas and strategies out on millions of users and enormous data sets. * Head up a small team of experienced engineers (if you are willing and able). * Have fun. Play ping pong, foosball, video games. * Eat. We buy your lunches. Want to find out more? Send me an email or Click here to apply Cheers, Grace http://lolapps.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From brian.curtin at gmail.com Thu Jan 27 21:42:28 2011 From: brian.curtin at gmail.com (Brian Curtin) Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 14:42:28 -0600 Subject: [DCPIGgies] PSF Sprints - Call For Applications Message-ID: Hello DC Python Users! On behalf of the Python Software Foundation?s sponsored sprint group, I wanted to drop your group a quick note introducing us. If you?re already familiar with our sponsored sprints, you?ll be happy to know we made a few changes to help both sprint groups and Python even more. The PSF recently set aside funding to be distributed to groups who spend time contributing to the Python ecosystem, often in the form of development sprints. Our goal is to help you help Python, so whether it?s buying meals or renting meeting space for your all-day hackathon, we have a budget set aside to reimburse your expenses up to $300 (up from $250). If your goal is to make the Python world a better place, and you work on the problems facing Python today, we want to help you. We?re looking for groups of hackers that spend their time fixing and expanding the wide variety of Python interpreters, libraries, tools, and anything else affecting the community.We?re also looking for groups who want to help and get started but don?t have the resources to get together. Whether your group is separated by a train ride or lacking a shared space, we want to help you. On-boarding new contributors to open source Python projects is an especially important area that we?d like to work with.This means if you have a Python project and you want to sprint -- we want to help you.Some sprints we?ve sponsored include the porting of Genshi to Python 3, improvements to packaging (Distribute/distutils), and most recently, the PyPy winter sprint in Switzerland. If your group is interested in hosting a sprint, check out the full details of our call for applications at http://www.pythonsprints.com/cfa/ and contact us at sprints at python.org. Thanks for your time, and happy sprinting! Brian Curtin Jesse Noller http://www.pythonsprints.com/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: