jakestein

I agree that it's a bad idea to use "janitor" as a disparaging term, and that was very far away from my intention. If that was what you took away from reading it, then that's more evidence that I didn't do a great job with writing the original draft.

Here's the original paragraph for reference:

Data engineers are the janitors who keep your data clean and flowing. Insights are great, and you need them. But to deliver insights at scale, you need data infrastructure. That’s delivered by data engineering. It’s not as fun to talk about as D3 visualizations and business intelligence dashboards, but it’s every bit as important.

Hey I'm the author of this blog post and the CEO of the company that did the benchmark report. That was a very poor choice of words on my part, and I appreciate you flagging it. I reworked the paragraph to remove the janitor comment and (hopefully) make it clearer.

RJMetrics - Philadelphia, PA http://rjmetrics.com/jobs

We're hiring for software engineers, devops, analysts, designers, business development, sales, and account management. Some more about us:

At RJMetrics, we inspire and empower data-driven people with powerful hosted software. Hundreds of high-growth e-commerce and software as a service businesses use our analytics platform to collaborate and make smarter decisions using data. RJMetrics is backed by some of the most successful technology investors in New York and Silicon Valley, but we are Philly born and raised. We are located in the heart of Center City Philadelphia in convenient proximity to all major rail lines.

We are a growing team tackling big problems: - We want to transform large datasets more efficiently - We want to push the envelope of possibility for in-browser data visualizations - We want to make complex data questions easy for anyone to understand - While we currently work with tools like PHP, Clojure, AngularJS, MySQL and Hadoop, we are looking for candidates who can identify the best tools for a given job and quickly adapt. Prior experience with these technologies is not a requirement.

The life and responsibilities of an RJMetrics developer include: - Source control using git - Continuous integration and deployment via our one-click build-and-deploy system - Milestone and issue tracking with github and Trello - A commitment to preventing tech debt and tackling the root causes of issues - Comfortable working conditions and access to the best tools money can buy

RJMetrics - Philadelphia, PA http://rjmetrics.com/jobs

We're hiring for software engineers, devops, analysts, designers, business development, sales, and account management. Some more about us:

At RJMetrics, we inspire and empower data-driven people with powerful hosted software. Hundreds of high-growth e-commerce and software as a service businesses use our analytics platform to collaborate and make smarter decisions using data. RJMetrics is backed by some of the most successful technology investors in New York and Silicon Valley, but we are Philly born and raised. We are located in the heart of Center City Philadelphia in convenient proximity to all major rail lines.

We are a growing team tackling big problems: - We want to transform large datasets more efficiently - We want to push the envelope of possibility for in-browser data visualizations - We want to make complex data questions easy for anyone to understand - While we currently work with tools like PHP, Clojure, AngularJS, MySQL and Hadoop, we are looking for candidates who can identify the best tools for a given job and quickly adapt. Prior experience with these technologies is not a requirement.

The life and responsibilities of an RJMetrics developer include: - Source control using git - Continuous integration and deployment via our one-click build-and-deploy system - Milestone and issue tracking with github and Trello - A commitment to preventing tech debt and tackling the root causes of issues - Comfortable working conditions and access to the best tools money can buy

RJMetrics - Philadelphia, PA http://rjmetrics.com/jobs

We're hiring for software engineers, devops, analysts, designers, business development, sales, and account management. Some more about us:

At RJMetrics, we inspire and empower data-driven people with powerful hosted software. Hundreds of high-growth e-commerce and software as a service businesses use our analytics platform to collaborate and make smarter decisions using data. RJMetrics is backed by some of the most successful technology investors in New York and Silicon Valley, but we are Philly born and raised. We are located in the heart of Center City Philadelphia in convenient proximity to all major rail lines.

We are a growing team tackling big problems: - We want to transform large datasets more efficiently - We want to push the envelope of possibility for in-browser data visualizations - We want to make complex data questions easy for anyone to understand - While we currently work with tools like PHP, Clojure, AngularJS, MySQL and Hadoop, we are looking for candidates who can identify the best tools for a given job and quickly adapt. Prior experience with these technologies is not a requirement.

The life and responsibilities of an RJMetrics developer include: - Source control using git - Continuous integration and deployment via our one-click build-and-deploy system - Milestone and issue tracking with github and Trello - A commitment to preventing tech debt and tackling the root causes of issues - Comfortable working conditions and access to the best tools money can buy

RJMetrics - Philadelphia, PA http://rjmetrics.com/jobs

We're hiring for software engineers, devops, analysts, designers, business development, sales, and account management.

Some more about us:

At RJMetrics, we inspire and empower data-driven people with powerful hosted software. Hundreds of high-growth e-commerce and software as a service businesses use our analytics platform to collaborate and make smarter decisions using data.

RJMetrics is backed by some of the most successful technology investors in New York and Silicon Valley, but we are Philly born and raised. We are located in the heart of Center City Philadelphia in convenient proximity to all major rail lines.

We are a growing team tackling big problems: - We want to transform large datasets more efficiently - We want to push the envelope of possibility for in-browser data visualizations - We want to make complex data questions easy for anyone to understand - While we currently work with tools like PHP, Clojure, AngularJS, MySQL and Hadoop, we are looking for candidates who can identify the best tools for a given job and quickly adapt. Prior experience with these technologies is not a requirement.

The life and responsibilities of an RJMetrics developer include: - Source control using git - Continuous integration and deployment via our one-click build-and-deploy system - Milestone and issue tracking with github and Trello - A commitment to preventing tech debt and tackling the root causes of issues - Comfortable working conditions and access to the best tools money can buy

RJMetrics - Philadelphia, PA http://rjmetrics.com/jobs

We're hiring for software engineers, devops, analysts, designers, business development, sales, and account management. Some more about us:

At RJMetrics, we inspire and empower data-driven people with powerful hosted software. Hundreds of high-growth e-commerce and software as a service businesses use our analytics platform to collaborate and make smarter decisions using data. RJMetrics is backed by some of the most successful technology investors in New York and Silicon Valley, but we are Philly born and raised. We are located in the heart of Center City Philadelphia in convenient proximity to all major rail lines.

We are a growing team tackling big problems: - We want to transform large datasets more efficiently - We want to push the envelope of possibility for in-browser data visualizations - We want to make complex data questions easy for anyone to understand - While we currently work with tools like PHP, Clojure, AngularJS, MySQL and Hadoop, we are looking for candidates who can identify the best tools for a given job and quickly adapt. Prior experience with these technologies is not a requirement.

The life and responsibilities of an RJMetrics developer include: - Source control using git - Continuous integration and deployment via our one-click build-and-deploy system - Milestone and issue tracking with github and Trello - A commitment to preventing tech debt and tackling the root causes of issues - Comfortable working conditions and access to the best tools money can buy

RJMetrics - Philadelphia, PA http://rjmetrics.com/jobs

We're hiring for software engineers, devops, analysts, designers, business development, sales, and account management. Some more about us:

At RJMetrics, we inspire and empower data-driven people with powerful hosted software. Hundreds of high-growth e-commerce and software as a service businesses use our analytics platform to collaborate and make smarter decisions using data. RJMetrics is backed by some of the most successful technology investors in New York and Silicon Valley, but we are Philly born and raised. We are located in the heart of Center City Philadelphia in convenient proximity to all major rail lines.

We are a growing team tackling big problems: - We want to transform large datasets more efficiently - We want to push the envelope of possibility for in-browser data visualizations - We want to make complex data questions easy for anyone to understand - While we currently work with tools like PHP, Clojure, AngularJS, MySQL and Hadoop, we are looking for candidates who can identify the best tools for a given job and quickly adapt. Prior experience with these technologies is not a requirement.

The life and responsibilities of an RJMetrics developer include: - Source control using git - Continuous integration and deployment via our one-click build-and-deploy system - Milestone and issue tracking with github and Trello - A commitment to preventing tech debt and tackling the root causes of issues - Comfortable working conditions and access to the best tools money can buy

RJMetrics - Philadelphia, PA http://rjmetrics.com/jobs

We're hiring for software engineers, devops, analysts, designers, business development, sales, and account management.

Some more about us:

At RJMetrics, we inspire and empower data-driven people with powerful hosted software. Hundreds of high-growth e-commerce and software as a service businesses use our analytics platform to collaborate and make smarter decisions using data.

RJMetrics is backed by some of the most successful technology investors in New York and Silicon Valley, but we are Philly born and raised. We are located in the heart of Center City Philadelphia in convenient proximity to all major rail lines.

We are a growing team tackling big problems:

- We want to transform large datasets more efficiently

- We want to push the envelope of possibility for in-browser data visualizations

- We want to make complex data questions easy for anyone to understand

- While we currently work with tools like PHP, Clojure, AngularJS, MySQL and Hadoop, we are looking for candidates who can identify the best tools for a given job and quickly adapt. Prior experience with these technologies is not a requirement.

The life and responsibilities of an RJMetrics developer include:

- Source control using git

- Continuous integration and deployment via our one-click build-and-deploy system

- Milestone and issue tracking with github and Trello

- A commitment to preventing tech debt and tackling the root causes of issues

- Comfortable working conditions and access to the best tools money can buy

- Working alongside one of Philadelphia’s strongest technology teams

Philadelphia, PA -- RJMetrics -- http://rjmetrics.com/jobs

We're hiring analysts, account managers, developers, and dev ops.

RJMetrics works with some of the most exciting ecommerce and SaaS businesses in the world. We help them combine data from many sources and make it actionable and understandable.

We're solving problems around big data, data visualization, optimizing online marketing and merchandising, and building great UI's.

Lerch!

We still use Awesom-o and Butters every day

I can verify this [1]. The management team does not have a sense of humor.

[1] I am cofounder and COO

RJMetrics - rjmetrics.com/jobs Philadelphia, PA fulltime. H1Bs welcome.

We're helping some of the most exciting online businesses in the world make their data actionable and understandable.

We're hiring for developers, DevOps, account managers, customer success team, product manager, inside sales, and a VP of Sales.

Interesting, Artisan mobile is also in this space http://useartisan.com/

This seems very cool. We (www.rjmetrics.com) provide a hosted tool to get metrics like cohort analysis out of the data you've already got on your database. In addition to cohorts, you can also get metrics on time between events, repeat event rates, and segmented lists of lapsed users.

We've got a lot of different visualization options, and we can consolidate multiple data sources (ie Mongo, MySQL, spreadsheets, Google Analytics) into a single reporting portal.

I'm a cofounder of rjmetrics. You probably won't be surprised to learn that we have all of our data from billing, product usage, google analytics, zendesk, hubspot, fogbugz, etc in our rjmetrics account. We give access to all of our employees and our board.

There are a lot of great tools out there, and we think ours is best at consolidating, analyzing, and acting on the data that ecommerce and saas companies have. We don't collect new data for you, which is the focus of a lot of the other tools mentioned on this thread.

My cofounder actually has a guest post on techcrunch today about the things to consider when buying or building an analytical system and trying to create a data driven company: http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/27/lessons-for-data-driven-bus...

I don't think Gruber's objection is that it's an incoherent position, rather that it violates Stallman's stated morals.

It's along the lines of being against killing animals for food, but eating a burger because your friend bought the meat and grilled it for you.

Is there a way for other companies to make the pledge from that site? Or is this limited to friends of PG for now?

Great meeting you too. Definitely let us know when you post it.

Harper was actually CTO at Threadless (skinnyCorp), but this (and he) is awesome in any case.

RJMetrics is hiring developers rjmetrics.com/jobs

Yes. My company (RJMetrics) sells BI and dashboard software to web businesses. Our biggest competitor by far is internal development.

Linke to the PLoS article that this post summarizes: http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal...

I have no first hand knowledge, but I would be surprised if a 2.5 year old account with 250 of karma (like you do) is not considered established enough for this purpose.

The difference as I see it is that Snow Leopard will get the security updates via Apple's Software Update program. You're on your own for updating flash player, or at best you get notified by Adobe that a new version of flash player is installed.

Apple can control or at least heavily influence the updates for Snow Leopard. It can't for flash.

1. Before we had a product I spent a lot of time taking care of administrative stuff that was necessary to get the company going. I also wrote the copy for the website. The biggest thing though is to talk to the people who you will eventually sell to and see if they are interested in what you are building.

2. Practice is a huge part of it. I also think its worthwhile to learn about the training programs bigger companies put their employees through. I have a few cd's from http://www.sandler.com/ that have been very helpful. If you have a friend who works in sales, they probably have a bunch of these.

RJMetrics is looking for a developer in the Philadelphia Area. We build BI software, make rap videos, guest post on Techcrunch, and have been doubling revenue quarter over quarters since we got started.

http://rjmetrics.theresumator.com/apply/6M3H5r/

Chris, I agree. We are definitely going to follow this up with more analysis on the conversion rates on the next step of our funnel. We won't have results for that for a while though because: 1)It will be a partially manual process to match up conversations with prospects to demo form completions because the form completer often introduces us to a different person, so we can't do a simple email comparison between our form completions and our CRM 2)Conversations with prospects sometimes don't take place until weeks or even a month or two after the form is filled out.

I wouldn't be surprised if the quality of the leads goes down somewhat, but my guess is that the overall effect will be dramatically positive.

The linked piece by Gruber was written in October in response to a different post by Atwood (http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001306.html).

RJMetrics is hiring an exceptional User Experience and Interface Engineer (Philadelphia / South NJ)

http://rjmetrics.theresumator.com/apply/