Tag: new job

New @ Hasura, Me!

I would not assume you did know this dear reader, but I’ve joined the amazing team at Hasura! Over the last few years I’ve gotten back into a number of data oriented development efforts, often related to my own interest in database systems and web development. From this angle Hasura has a superb technology solution, a solid team with founders @tanmaigo, @rajoshighosh leading the crew, and I’ll introduce many of them to you all too in the coming weeks and months! 👍🏻

What is Hasura?

Hasura is a GraphQL API Server, that can be serverless via the Hasura Cloud, deployed to any cloud provider, or run locally on your own infrastructure. It is open source too, so you can dig in and checkout how things work via the Github repo.

First Steps @ Hasura

My first step when joining I put together a deployment around infrastructure as code and wrote a blog entry “Setup Postgres and a GraphQL API with Hasura on Azure” using Terraform. It’s a fairly thorough post, albeit always open to critique, and will have a follow up real soon! Some of the next steps will include further data modeling, covering various relational database paradigms and how those map to Hasura, and lots of additional information. If there’s something you’d like to see, or technologies you’d like to see me put together, do reach out to me @Adron and I’ll see about getting some customized content put together!

Some of the first endeavors I’ve started tackling is coordinating new learning material around each of the features, capabilities, patterns, practices, and ideas behind GraphQL, development around and uses of GrahpQL, the Hasura product, and how all of these technologies fit together to make software development [pick awesome adjectives here: better, faster, etc] when one is working toward an idea!

See you deep in the code and data, science, data extraction, transformation, loading, and all the software development around it all! 🚀

References

For JavaScript, Go, Python, Terraform, and more infrastructure, infrastructure as code, web dev, data management, data science, data extraction, transformation, loading, and coding around all of this I stream regularly on Twitch at https://twitch.tv/adronhall, post the VOD’s to YouTube along with entirely new tech and metal content at https://youtube.com/c/ThrashingCode. I’ll be regularly participating in, scheduling, and adding content at Hasura’s Twitch & YouTube Channels too, so follow and subscribe over there too.

Last, another way to get updated on just the bare minimum of content and coding I’m doing register for the Thrashing Code Newsletter!

A New Adventure of Multi-model Distribute Graph Time Series […etc…] Database(s) Explorations Begins!

I arrived at the airport, sending a few tweets of this or that nature with all of this Github and Microsoft News. I have a great view out the window from the Alaska Lounge just before heading to the D gates. For you aeronautics fans like myself, here’s a picture of that view and a few of those Alaska Planes with one of the newly acquired Virgin America Planes!

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All this news with Github and Microsoft was easily eclipsing WWDC18 and in the meanwhile little ole’ me is on my way to a new adventure in my career. So priorities what they are, the news being excited, I’m more excited today to announce today I’m joining a most excellent team at DataStax! to bring forth investigation, research, knowledge, ideas, and whatever else I can as a Developer Evangelist with the crew here at DataStax! I’m unbelievably stoked as I’ve been searching for a company that would check all of my “will this work” check boxes for some months now! DataStax won out among the other prospective candidate companies and I’m starting today!

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To kick off this adventure, I’m heading to San Francisco to join in the fun attending DevxCon. I’ll be there a little later today, hopefully in time for the kick off (ya know, pending flights and BART are all timely and such)! Then a full day of the conf, then later will join the team for a visit to DataStax HQ and maybe a few surprises. I’m super excited and ready to bring awesome content your way, while inventing, building, and experimenting my way through some awesome technologies!

After 816 Days I’m Taking a Job!

The new mission, or as some may call it, a job! The context for those that might not be familiar with my adventures is that I’ve been working independently as a consultant, contractor, community builder, beer drinker, hacker, teacher, trainer, mentor, curriculum builder, and training content creator. The last time I held something that resembled a job was 560 business days ago, or more specifically 816 days ago. Honestly, I’m not even sure that it could be considered a job, it was a strange gig to say the least. Recently after this long break I’m taking up a new job position with some interesting objectives and priorities.

Here’s some of what I wrote to outline the specific objectives and priorities for the new team I’m joining and to insure I had clear priorities for myself. I do, after all, prize clear objectives very high on the “things that are useful & cool” list.

Objectives

  • Community Contributions – Help launch and build the community around the release of a yet to be announced open source micro-services framework (we’re currently calling it the Forge Framework) following an open source software model. I’ll also be telling you about all the work that has gone into this framework so far form Jesse, Beau, and the team. This will cover their various battles, from discussions to decisions, all leading up to the release of the framework. At this point, our time frame to release this is somewhere around the Feburary time frame. Currently it is in production, but we will need to make sure we have a reason repository of code we can release. We’re aiming for it to be in good shape for everybody to use when it’s released. (I’ll be managing the overall effort, so ping me if you’re interested in jumping into the project)
  • Site Reliability – Help build infrastructure for site reliability, deployment, etc (immutable, container based, etc) to deliver the company’s key products, APIs, micro-services, and improve the back-end deployment and delivery options and capabilities. This is going to include a lot of cool technology including things like Docker, kafka, CoreCLR, and a host of other things that I’ll be blogging about on a regular basis. Along with this infrastructure and site reliability I’ll help set guidelines, approaches, and future objectives for delivery and deployment of software. When I implement things, I’ll aim to blog it, when I learn new tips and tricks, I’ll aim to blog it, and whenever I break a build, I’ll blog that too. Whatever it is, I’m aiming to increase my frequency a great deal in the coming days, weeks, and months.
  • Talent Recon – I’m looking for, scouting around like force recon, and connecting talent to future work we will be having come open in early 2016. (Again, this is where I get to come and hack with you, help build awesome open source software, and let you my fellow coding cohort know about the company’s existing and upcoming awesome work we’ll be hiring for! For those that know me, you know I’m serious about making sure I line up the right people with the right types of gigs, I’m no recruiter, I’m a coder, so I fight against wildly innappropriate misalignment and related silliness!)

These are my top priorities as I step into this role with the Quote Center, a kind of laboratory of inventive ideas for Home Depot. You’ll be hearing a lot more about this in the coming days, and if you’re interested in working with me and an awesome group of people – reach out and let me know @Adron on Twitter or just email me. Cheers!