Google is heavily involved as well, in both the client libraries and the agent development. In addition to Google, Omnition, Microsoft and others are also major contributors. All of the OpenCensus community is moving over to OpenTelemetry, Google and Omnition included.
Founder of Omnition here. We are the primary maintainers of the OpenCensus agent and collector services. OpenTelemetry which is the result of the OpenCensus and OpenTracing merger is also inheriting these. Omnition is building a distributed tracing backend. If anyone is interested to find out more you can email me directly: spiros at omnition.io. For those interested to contribute or use OpenTelemetry, checkout out:
- https://opentelemetry.io/
- https://github.com/open-telemetry
- https://gitter.im/open-telemetry/community
At Pattern Insight (http://patterninsight.com) we have build a source code search engine. We do not give this to our customers as a standalone tool most of the time but it's the underlying technology for our product, Code Assurance, which helps companies eliminate bugs from their releases.
We use it internally to search our code / libraries, if anyone is interested in indexing/searching his own code, especially if it's open source, I would be happy to provide a copy. Email: spiros at patterninsight.com
Mountain View, CA
Pattern Insight (http://patterninsight.com). We are profitable and growing fast. Customers are some of the biggest technology companies
I think it's fair if it's aimed at Oracle given Oracle's record in terms of "supporting" open source. It will probably hurt a lot many others though, including CentOS.
I would be happy to provide a free copy to anyone that might want to use Patch Miner (http://patterninsight.com/patchminer/) to verify patches in one of the free distros
We develop solutions for searching and analyzing vast quantities of semi-structured data. Many of the biggest tech companies (Cisco, Qualcomm, Juniper, Motorola) rely on Pattern Insight for their internal search.
Many of our team members joined the company after working part-time or as interns
We are building search products for semi-structured data.
We are cash flow positive and growing fast. Our customers are some of the biggest tech companies in the world. That said, we are still early and looking for people that want to be part of the core team and shape our future.
Totally agree. I started my company 4 years ago. We have been pretty successful so far (several millions in revenue and big customers). There are times that people need to work a lot but there is no way you can work 7 or even 6 days a week in a sustainable fashion, not even at the beginning. I never expected people to work on the weekends although sometimes they do. Of course, I never expected people to work more than me either. Most of them are extremely productive during normal working hours. I don't think having a life means you are not motivated.
Also, hours that somebody appears to be working is definitely the wrong metric for developers.
A point with which I strongly disagree is that some public businesses are profitable so we should leave them alone. First of all, it's trivial to be profitable if you control a monopoly. Also, being profitable doesn't mean you are efficient, some things could be done much more effectively in the private sector. Also, by being overstaffed, even if profitable, you are not allowing all these people working for you to do something more productive.
Beyond that, when talking about profitability, you should consider pension plans and future obligations. Some of these businesses might have a positive balance sheet for the year but what's going to happen if you consider their future, inflated, obligations. A good example are the pensions the Public Electric Company employees get. They are mostly funded by the government.
Let's see why it screws up incentives:
-- What do you think any of the people working in the public sector tries to optimize? Is it the successe of the business they are working on? Do they try to advance their careers? Or do they try to work as little as possible?
-- If an employee is not good, is a government controlled company ever going to fire them?
-- The guy who controls the supplies in the hospitals, does he ever have to report to somebody about that?
-- Do you know a single person in the public sector that he has ever been promoted or fired because of his skills or lack there of?
Such as building their own private businesses and employing other people in the private sector.
For example, it is much more beneficial to the country to build, say a new hotel (as this is Greece's biggest industry), instead of wasting the money on more public-railroad-type of money wasting businesses.
I am not advocating tax evasion. I think, US for example, is a great place to do business, as opposed to Greece, because the letter of the law is followed and the rules are clear to everyone. I am just saying that the Greek government was so inefficient and the public sector so bloated, that in some sense tax evasion was helping put people's money at more efficient uses.
I am not advocating something that extreme here. Not sure how familiar you are with Greece. Each of these organizations is overstaffed to a great extend. Then some of them are totally useless, like the public railroad. On the top of that there are businesses that would be very healthy in the private sector (see banks) and that the government has absolutely no reason to be in. The fact that the government is actually in those businesses, profitable or not, screws up the incentives of everyone involved.
I don't think I disagree with you. My whole argument in these posts is that tax evasion, although very real, did not lead Greece to this mess neither will its reverse take it out. The problem is the bloated public sector with all its related problems. I think fixing that should be the first step towards a real solution.
Greece does not provide its citizens with more social services than other European countries, I would say that they actually provide less. And although you are right about the deficit, again, the main problem is the inflated public sector with all its associated problems, like high pensions at a young age.
The private sector should not be burdened with this, and actually, it cannot afford to pay for this burden. If collecting more taxes is the solution here, it's certain that Greece will go bankrupt.
Regarding Germany vs the other European countries, what is easy to see is the direct contribution of Germany to the EU but the indirect benefits that Germany got because of the fixed currency are more difficult to see although very very important for them.
But this is not the cause of the economic problems. The more appropriate solution would be to shut down the money-loosing public businesses (like the train org) and lay off as many people as needed from the public sector.
This way, they will reduce government spending and will also allow people to do something more productive.
More taxation will just slow down the economy even further.
The article points out many of the problems of the greek economy, like:
* The inflated public sector
* The power of the unions over the government
* The corruption in certain areas of the public sector (e.g. hospitals)
* The loose observance of laws
But it mischaracterizes several important points, as it is commons with articles that describe such complicated issues after a minimal exposure of the journalist to the situation:
* Tax evasion does not hurt the real economy. Especially not in a country like Greece where the public sector is so inefficient. It might be unfair for some but it doesn't really hurt the economy. In some cases it enables smart and motivated entrepreneurs to start their businesses.
* Most public sector workers are not corrupted but they are part of the problem simply because of the fact that they work in the public sector. Think of DMV x1000.
* The majority of Greeks are against the unions and would like to see the public sector shrink.
When I mentioned framework, I meant something more than apt-get that just fetches and installs the packages. Something that would allow me to build background updates in my app like Chrome.
EDIT:
I guess G Omaha is what I am looking for but ...
"Support of platforms other than Windows 2000 (SP4+), Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7; in other words, we will not support OS X, Linux ..." from http://omaha.googlecode.com/svn/wiki/OmahaOverview.html