If you design your software with a bad architecture you will have problems, if the services and their data are 'cut' in the wrong way you will get performance (and other) problems.
That's valid for functions, state, api and service stores.
Camden Town, London, UK
InvisibleHand
Senior Developer
We are real-time price comparison in the browser.
With a little help from asyncronous ruby (Goliath), neo4j, mongodb, hadoop and javascript we've found over a billion dollars of savings for our users and won a stack of awards.
We ship over 27TB of data every month through AWS, process over 5 billion messages through our reporting system and average 4 million requests on our systems every day.
We are 6 hackers in Camden, London, looking for a seventh.
Forward is a collection of innovative online brands based in Camden, London. Our success is driven by talented people who are given the freedom to experiment with technology in a low ceremony environment. Forward is reliant upon developers who actively engage in the business and go beyond a traditional role. Technology is at the core of how we solve problems, from testing new businesses in a day to discovering how the weather affects web traffic. This has made us one of the top ten fastest growing privately owned technology companies in the UK.
We're looking for people across and group and are interested in programmers who:
Have a polyglot coding background: Clojure, Ruby, Java, and any other languages you feel are convincing
Understand the Internet and what makes it work: HTTP and REST, HTML and semantic markup, and CSS
Contribute to, or have their own, open source projects
Like to experiment with technology to solve problems
Are pragmatic and focused on delivery
Have courage when expressing opinions regardless of how controversial
Post Agile ;-)
That's valid for functions, state, api and service stores.