We've been using golinks.io for a few months now at my current employer, and it's been very well received by folks, with both technical and non-technical users adopting it quickly.
Variable links are very useful - links like "go/monitoring/alpha", "go/monitoring/beta" (with a template "go/monitoring/$1 -> $1.example.com"), make it super easy to keep things up to date.
The roles definitely aren't sacrosanct. Teams (& individuals) change and evolve over time, and there's plenty of work to be done. :) Having said that, I might suggest the Fellows program if someone is serious about becoming a researcher - it's a good way to leverage your existing skills while learning how to do AI research.
We work in Terraform, Chef, Golang, Ruby, Python, and across the stack as needed. We use existing tools instead of reinventing the wheel when it makes sense, and when we build new tools we often open-source them: https://github.com/openai/kubernetes-ec2-autoscaler
We use Serf for infrastructure command propagation ("Chef, go converge on host X", "Docker, start running container Y on host Z") across our entire staging and production sets of hosts, and Consul for holding most of our network topology information across three different geographic regions. Works pretty well. We're bringing in Nomad (edit: and Vault) now, though they still have a few rough spots.
We've been using this internally as the integration was developed. Having a message continue to change to show updates is super useful, and is a nice way to avoid spamming a channel with changes / cuts down on the "noise".
The testability of Lita plugins via RSpec is super helpful, and it's great to see things like route matching get addressed & improved with this release.
Minted is a social commerce site, crowd-sourcing graphic designs and art from around the world. Behind the scenes, we're running Python on MySQL running in EC2 and Rackspace environments.
We provide competitive compensation, generous benefits, and a brightly lit office environment that's 5 minutes walking distance from the Ferry Building in downtown San Francisco. We're backed by Benchmark Capital & IDG Ventures, among others.
Minted is a social commerce site, crowd-sourcing graphic designs and art from around the world. Behind the scenes, we're running Python and PHP, on MySQL running in EC2 and Rackspace environments.
We provide competitive compensation, generous benefits, and a brightly lit office environment that's 5 minutes walking distance from the Ferry Building in downtown San Francisco. We're backed by Benchmark Capital & IDG Ventures, among others.
Variable links are very useful - links like "go/monitoring/alpha", "go/monitoring/beta" (with a template "go/monitoring/$1 -> $1.example.com"), make it super easy to keep things up to date.