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Co-founder/CEO @ DataCater
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flippingbits··on SQL should be the default choice for data transformation logic
This high-level blog post discusses using SQL vs. Python for implementing data pipelines: https://datacater.io/blog/2023-01-18/python-vs-sql-data-pipe...

TLDR: SQL feels most natural for joining and aggregating data sets; Python is favorable for filtering and transforming data due to its higher flexibility and extendability

flippingbits··on Ask HN: Azure has run out of compute – anyone else affected?
The last one I remember is this one from August this year: https://redmondmag.com/articles/2022/08/30/microsoft-blames-... It was not a complete outage but these DNS issues caused a lot of pain.
flippingbits··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2022)
DataCater (https://datacater.io) | Remote (Germany or CET +- 2h) | Full Time | Cloud infrastructure engineers, Frontend engineers, Software engineers

At DataCater, we help businesses to efficiently connect their growing amount of data silos. To this end, we build the self-service platform for streaming data pipelines, based on the open-source technology Apache Kafka. DataCater enables companies to benefit from the power of event streaming, without handling the complexity. Our mission is to provide essential tooling, so that data teams can unlock the full value of their data, faster. DataCater was founded in 2020 and is serving customers from industries, such as finance, e-commerce, media, and software.

Open positions:

* Cloud infrastructure engineer (https://datacater.io/careers/cloud-infrastructure-engineer/)

* Frontend engineer (https://datacater.io/careers/frontend-engineer/)

* Software engineer (https://datacater.io/careers/software-engineer/)

You can learn more about our company in our handbook: https://github.com/DataCater/handbook

Sounds interesting? Please send an e-mail to our CTO Hakan (hr@datacater.io), tell a few words about yourself, describe what excites you the most about the role, and send along your CV.

flippingbits··on Building real-time ETL pipelines with Apache Kafka
I suggest to try thinking in terms of events instead of streams.

You can extract data change events (e.g., INSERTs) from a data source, transform them with a streaming application (e.g., built with Kafka Streams), and load the transformed events into a data sink.

flippingbits··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2022)
DataCater (https://datacater.io) | Remote (Germany or CET +- 2h) | Full Time | Cloud infrastructure engineers, Frontend engineers, Software engineers

At DataCater, we help businesses to efficiently connect their growing amount of data silos. To this end, we build the self-service platform for streaming data pipelines, based on the open-source technology Apache Kafka. DataCater enables companies to benefit from the power of event streaming, without handling the complexity. Our mission is to provide essential tooling, so that data teams can unlock the full value of their data, faster. DataCater was founded in 2020 and is serving customers from industries, such as finance, e-commerce, media, and software.

Open positions:

* Cloud infrastructure engineer (https://datacater.io/careers/cloud-infrastructure-engineer/)

* Frontend engineer (https://datacater.io/careers/frontend-engineer/)

* Software engineer (https://datacater.io/careers/software-engineer/)

You can learn more about our company in our handbook: https://github.com/DataCater/handbook

Sounds interesting? Please send an e-mail to our CTO Hakan (hr@datacater.io), tell a few words about yourself, describe what excites you the most about the role, and send along your CV.

flippingbits··on Show HN: API to query catalogs of 20 streaming services across 60 countries
One of our customers is using your API to automatically generate news for upcoming/changing/leaving shows. Keep up the good work!
flippingbits··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2022)
DataCater (https://datacater.io) | Remote (Germany or CET +- 2h) | Full Time | Cloud infrastructure engineers, Frontend engineers, Software engineers

At DataCater, we help businesses to efficiently connect their growing amount of data silos. To this end, we build the self-service platform for streaming data pipelines, based on the open-source technology Apache Kafka. DataCater enables companies to benefit from the power of event streaming, without handling the complexity. Our mission is to provide essential tooling, so that data teams can unlock the full value of their data, faster. DataCater was founded in 2020 and is serving customers from industries, such as finance, e-commerce, media, and software.

Open positions:

* Cloud infrastructure engineer (https://datacater.io/careers/cloud-infrastructure-engineer/)

* Frontend engineer (https://datacater.io/careers/frontend-engineer/)

* Software engineer (https://datacater.io/careers/software-engineer/)

You can learn more about our company in our handbook: https://github.com/DataCater/handbook

Sounds interesting? Please send an e-mail to our CTO Hakan (hr@datacater.io), tell a few words about yourself, describe what excites you the most about the role, and send along your CV.

flippingbits··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2021)
DataCater (https://datacater.io) | Remote (Germany or CET +- 2h) | Full Time | Cloud infrastructure engineers, Frontend engineers, Software engineers

At DataCater, we help businesses to efficiently connect their growing amount of data silos. To this end, we build the self-service platform for streaming data pipelines, based on the open-source technology Apache Kafka. DataCater enables companies to benefit from the power of event streaming, without handling the complexity. Our mission is to provide essential tooling, so that data teams can unlock the full value of their data, faster. DataCater was founded in 2020 and is serving customers from industries, such as finance, e-commerce, media, and software.

Open positions:

* Cloud infrastructure engineer (https://datacater.io/careers/cloud-infrastructure-engineer/)

* Frontend engineer (https://datacater.io/careers/frontend-engineer/)

* Software engineer (https://datacater.io/careers/software-engineer/)

You can learn more about our company in our handbook: https://github.com/DataCater/handbook

Sounds interesting? Please send an e-mail to our CTO Hakan (hr@datacater.io), tell a few words about yourself, describe what excites you the most about the role, and send along your CV.

flippingbits··on Why we run Data Pipelines as Containers
Thank you! :) I updated the article with a note on privileged containers.

Evaluating user code inside privileged containers is indeed a security nightmare. Fortunately, --privileged is not enabled by default, which is why I think that containers are quite secure by default.

flippingbits··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2013)
SEEKING WORK - Remote or local (Frankfurt, Germany).

Full-stack Rails developer.

Skills:

* Ruby, JavaScript

* Ruby on Rails, Sinatra

* MySQL, Apache Solr, RabbitMQ, MongoDB, Cassandra

* Chef, Vagrant, Capistrano

* Unix, Vim, Git, zsh, tmux

Website: http://flippingbits.org

flippingbits··on Vegetarian/Vegan food finder for London
http://www.happycow.net exists already.
flippingbits··on Taking payments online in Europe in 2013
I'm using it and I wrote the Ruby wrapper (https://github.com/dkd/paymill-ruby).

I like their service and they're nice guys.

flippingbits··on Creating SVG vector graphics for maximum browser compatibility
You can just create a font and assign the glyphs in the web app.
flippingbits··on Creating SVG vector graphics for maximum browser compatibility
You might try our Rails Rumble entry: blacksmithapp.com. It helps you creating icon webfonts based on SVG graphics.
flippingbits··on Travis CI adds Java, Groovy, and Scala support.
<3 <3 <3
flippingbits··on Riding Rails: Rails now tested on Travis CI
Travis rocks!