Distributed Systems Jobs and Tooling Roundup
Engineering hiring and infrastructure tooling move fast, and this edition of our sponsor highlights covers both ends of that spectrum. From job-search platforms that compress the application funnel to geolocation APIs and stateful database offerings, here is what caught our attention for teams building at scale.
Streamlining the Engineering Hiring Process
For engineers on the job market, Triplebyte operates a centralized technical assessment run by engineers. Candidates who pass their screening can bypass the initial interview rounds at partner companies including Apple, Dropbox, Mixpanel, and Instacart. The company positions this as making your search O(1) instead of O(n), meaning you take one evaluation rather than repeating similar screens at every employer.
If you're preparing for interviews, InterviewCamp.io offers system design curriculum broken into fundamental building blocks, plus weekly live system design discussions.
Geolocation and Security API Services
Two IP intelligence vendors are featured this week. IP2Location has provided IP geolocation data since 2002. Their database and API expose over 20 parameters, including location, proxy detection, and related metadata. The service claims citations in more than 700 research papers and adoption by Fortune 500 companies.
ipdata offers a competing IP Address Geolocation API for approximating location, detecting proxies, and identifying the company associated with an IP address. It is currently trusted by more than 10,000 developers.
Security Testing in the CI Pipeline
Application security tooling has lagged behind the pace of modern software delivery. A newer class of developer-first products aims to close that gap. Teams can now integrate tools like StackHawk and Snyk directly into their pipelines; a guide on adding security bug testing to CI walks through the approach.
Cloud Architecture and Stateful JavaScript
For AWS practitioners, a course titled The Good Parts of AWS claims to filter out the hype and focus on the services worth using. It was created by engineers with 15 years of senior-level AWS experience.
Developers building stateful JavaScript applications can add persistence with FaunaDB, which offers a generous free tier. Meanwhile, Educative.io has a four-course learning track on Scalability and System Design for Developers that has attracted more than 300,000 learners.
Stream: Feed and Activity Stream Infrastructure
Stream provides APIs for building news feeds and activity streams. Their service is free up to 3 million feed updates, and client libraries ship for Node, Ruby, Python, PHP, Go, Java, and .NET. The company reports that more than 400 companies—including apps with 30 million users—rely on its production feed infrastructure.
Stream is also hiring DevOps and Python/Go developers in Amsterdam, with openings listed on AngelList.
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