[LRUG] Ruby job at Playlouder

[Matthew Willson]

Couldn't guarantee it Matty J - depends a bit if we can tease  
something "off the shelf" like ActiveMQ into doing what we want.

I am interested in Erlang's mnesia for distributed storage though, and  
also in a scalable messaging system which integrates well with  
persistent storage and can handle delivery to twitter-style  
'followers' (we call them stalkers). Seems like something Erlang-based  
could be a good fit for this at some point. We've been reading the  
PragProg book on it at any rate :)

Then again maybe we'll end up following the route of others and  
patching something together in a devious fashion with mysql, memcached  
and starling-or-similar. Whoever comes on board will certainly have a  
big say in it all.


On 18 Aug 2008, at 17:27, Matthew Rudy Jacobs wrote:

> oh cool.
> Would successful applicants get the opportunity to write their own  
> persistent messaging / queueing system in Erlang if they so wished?
>
> 2008/8/18 Matthew Willson <matthew at playlouder.com>
> Dear all,
>
> Hope you don't mind the job plug - perhaps some of you will remember  
> my talk a while back about a widget-based web framework in Ruby. As  
> it turns out, things are starting to take off at Playlouder, the  
> music start-up for which it was developed - and we're looking to  
> hire a third developer.
>
> This isn't quite your vanilla Rails development job - we're pushing  
> Ruby in some interesting directions. But it should offer some great  
> opportunities for talented Ruby sorts to play with music services,  
> messaging and rich web application development, and help scale them  
> within ISP networks.
>
> Full detail follows for those interested - feel free to email me  
> with any questions, especially if you're interested how we're using  
> Ruby :)
>
> -Matt
>
>
>
> Music Service Developer
>
> Playlouder MSP has been working with ISPs and the music industry to  
> develop both an innovative business model for music consumption, and  
> innovative user experiences around music and communication to  
> complement ISPs' offerings.
>
> As a key addition to our small but growing development team, you  
> will be critical in helping to refine, scale and roll out our  
> application and service to white-label ISP clients.
>
> Key requirements
>
>    * Background in computer science, mathematics, software  
> engineering or similar (degree or equivalent experience)
>    * A solid technical all-rounder with software development  
> experience on sizeable projects
>
> The specifics
>
> Our work involves all of the following, and you'll be tackling  
> problems involving many of them:
>
>    * Dynamic languages (experience with Ruby, on which our current  
> implementation is based, would be particularly desirable)
>    * Rich web application development with a large Javascript-based  
> client-side portion
>    * A modular, widget-based user interface framework for the above
>    * Databases (MySQL at present), data modeling and ORM tools
>    * Unix-based deployment environments
>    * Large volumes of media, media metadata and usage statistics
>    * Web services APIs, and large-scale integration work
>    * Server push technologies, and scaling applications with a live  
> messaging component
>    * Common agile software development tools, processes and  
> techniques - source control, bug tracking, testing etc
>    * A warehouse full of music geeks :)
>
> Some other things which you might get to play with:
>
>    * Other languages - Java, Python, C, possibly Erlang (see  
> 'messaging' above), …
>    * Messaging technologies like AMQP, ActiveMQ, XMPP
>    * Music technology R&D projects
>    * Lots more in a fast-growing company
>
> In return we can offer challenging problems in an interesting  
> domain, competitive pay, and a great work environment for music fans  
> in our E2 warehouse!
>
> Enquiries to matthew at playlouder.com
>
> Company site: http://mediaserviceprovider.com/
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