Nice project! Quick question: how do you handle LLM access control in practice? For example, can different steps in a workflow run under different credentials or provider accounts, and is that enforced centrally by AxonFlow or delegated to the underlying orchestrator? Thanks!
+1 as well: 2M LOC codebase with little to no tests and a lot of lost knowledge due to disbanded teams, people moving on etc. In my experience very common state of affairs honestly.
Promotions are an employee retention tool. In a hot market, they come by easily. In a cool market, they are harder to get. Outside of your company they might mean very little. If you get a higher salary, good for you :-)
These are the places where the person sitting next to you and doing pretty much the same job as you could be making half of what you are making simply because you have a CERN contract and they work for a contractor.
I tried in Italian. Speech to text is impressive: kudos. The conversation was definitely weird and very repetitive. It needs more work I think. In any case, great idea and I am sure that you will soon enough get a fantastic product out.
There are a number of ways to move to Europe, or any other country for that matter. Your exact options depend dramatically on your specific situation. Things like which passport(s) do you hold, specific skillset, etc.
In general, my advice to folks looking to move to another country is "simply" to get a job in that country with a company that will sponsor your visa.
Now, one thing that I noticed over the years (and the reason for the double quotes around "simply") is that getting a job overseas is often times not trivial.
Many companies will be reluctant to even consider your application. Maybe they are afraid that you will get home-sick and leave after 6 months, maybe they do not want to deal with visa paperwork, maybe they see your hire as too expensive, maybe they are afraid of language issues... whatever the reason might be.
Whenever I changed continent, I have had most luck applying to companies with a large, mostly international workforce. These companies routinely hire people from all over the world and are used to the associated bureaucracy. They usually have immigration lawyers, which helps. In some cases, they might even have agreements with their host country that will make your visa paperwork much easier and much faster. In some cases there will be no need for a visa at all. Examples include universities and research institutions, large multinationals, NGOs etc.
You say that you do not have a degree. This might matter more in Europe than in other parts of the world but it will not make it impossible for you to find a job. I assume that you already checked out the monthly "Who's Hiring" threads and identified companies sponsoring visas. That would already be a good start.
We do not use the cloud. We operate (24/7) facilities in remote locations where we do not have super reliable internet connection (we do have redundant links including three different fibres on distinct paths plus radio links but still). For this reason alone nothing critical can be in the cloud. In our experience, however, cloud offerings are not that cheap compared to purchasing and operating your own machines. Besides, one still needs sysadmins even when operating infrastructure in the cloud.
I am writing this with sadness and frustration in my heart.
The only issue I have found seriously limiting my ability to use my own self hosted email server is the deliberate decision of Google, Yahoo and Microsoft to make it hard for me to do so.
Their decision is essentially un-appealable. I still get hotmail complaints about spam being sent from an IP I do not own anymore. For the life of me I could not find a way to solve this. Yes I did remove that address from their “responsible domain owner nonsense thingy” to no avail.
Often times I would send an email to a domain owned by one of the big three and that email would just disappear. No bounce back at all. The recipient would not even see it in their spam folder.
They tell you to implement various technical solution line DMARC and DKIM but in the end what really matters is the arbitrary and capricious decision of these three companies against which there is no recourse.
I agree that hosting your own email server is important but this is a battle that I gave up fighting.
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IRAM (iram-institute.org) is an international research organisation for millimetre and sub-millimetre astronomy supported by the CNRS (France), the Max-Planck Gesellschaft (Germany), and the IGN (Spain). IRAM operates two world-class research facilities, a 30-meter single-dish telescope (Spain) and the mm/submm interferometer NOEMA (France). The 30-meter telescope has been instrumental in the recently-released EHT observations of the supermassive black hole in the centre of M87.
We are looking for a System Administrator to work in our offices downtown beautiful Granada, Spain (indefinite contract, after a probation period of 6 months). Reporting to the Head of the Computer Group (myself), the successful candidate will support server, desktop and laptop operating systems and system software. This position has tons of autonomy and the chance to truly define our infrastructure evolution. We deal with everything from embedded systems used to move the telescope to linux servers for data processing to monitoring applications etc. You will not get bored :-)
This is totally my experience as well. It got so bad that I gave up operating my email server.
Anyway, Gmail is getting some heat in this thread and rightfully so. We should however not forget that Microsoft and Yahoo are just as bad if not worse in this respect.
Working in a research org: A possible especially in a senior position; B possible; C yes, depending on the project; D possible; E tossup; F quite likely; G possible; H yes; I definitely.
I worked with long (>> 24 hours, some times up to a week) complex workflows on big (thousands of nodes) clusters. We used custom software layered on top of a job scheduler like PBS Pro or HTCondor. The nice thing about this setup is that it supports re-running failed jobs, has pretty good monitoring, does an OK job at resource selection and allocation and is language agnostic. The last point is good if your workflows have parts written in different languages. There are a handful of conferences a year on these topics by the way. My favorite is HTCondor Week at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Talks are online [1]