Another adventure begins.
Two months ago I’ve joined @WalmartLabs to lead the mobile web services team. Surprised? I was. After working for one of the largest web companies in the world, all I wanted to do was go to a startup. That’s not exactly right; I wanted to be part of a tiny team with a big mission, a place where the size of the challenge is matched by the freedom and resources to address it. Oh, and a lot of node.js!
I am excited to share this and tell you all about it, especially on the heels of this morning announcement of the acquisition of Small Society. But I’m not going to lie to you: I have an agenda and I am trying to recruit you. If you are contemplating a career move and I “had you at node”, feel free to jump right to very end of this post to find more about the team we’re building.
As is often the case when working on a startup, virtual or not, things don’t work out according to plan. I had the privilege to spend the past year working on Sled, from product inception to execution. At the same time we were launching Sled, I experienced some significant management changes at Yahoo! which eventually led to shutting it down.
A picture started to emerge from casual conversations I’ve had over the past few weeks with friends working at Facebook. I have noticed how Facebook engineers are using a different, more restrained vocabulary to describe their jobs. What once was ‘amazing’ is now ‘challenging’, ‘exciting technology’ turned to ‘learning a lot’, and ‘having fun’ toned down to ‘still engaged’. They are all very ‘content’.
(A note to my long-time readers, I’m planning on expanding this blog to include opinions about current technology trends and news beyond my usual fare of standards, open web, and engineering posts.) This morning I logged into my Netflix account and changed my plan from 3 DVDs + Streaming to DVDs Only. Despite the excellent [...]
I’ve spend the past week participating as a judge in the 2nd Node Knockout competition – a 48 hours worldwide hackathon using node.js. The event included 720 contestants organized in 294 teams and resulted in 178 entries submitted for review. Overall, a fantastic event and a testament to the awesomeness that is the node community. [...]
Just a quick update. I’ve split my twitter account into two. Follow @hueniverse for blog updates and other information about the technical topics I discuss on this blog. Follow @eranhammer for my personal brain farts.
As I’m getting ready to finish work on OAuth 2.0 and add new content to this site, I decided it was time to finish the OAuth 1.0 chapter of this site. I’ve finally cleaned up the OAuth 1.0 guide and other pages. The guide is now updated to reflect RFC 5849 as well as some bug [...]
I’ve been obsessed with project management and personal productivity for a almost two decades. My experience ranges from tiny lists to gigantic project plans with hundreds of people and resources. In the past I’ve been a certified PMP and managed large engineering teams. What I’ve learned above all, is that we tend to overcomplicate everything. Four [...]
This post is part of a series of articles about my recent experience building Sled using Node.js. Express It There wasn’t much of selection 6 months ago when I started coding Sled when it came to Node frameworks. Node itself provides very little. You create an HTTP server and get a callback when a new HTTP request comes [...]
This post is part of a series of articles about my recent experience building Sled using Node.js. I started with CouchDB and ended with MongoDB. Working with CouchDB was fantastic. It took no time to learn the REST API and jump right into building the application. I had the first version of the base API ready in 2 days, including [...]
This post is part of a series of articles about my recent experience building Sled using Node.js. Node is all about non-blocking, asynchronous architecture. This means any activity taking a long time to finish, such as file access, network communication, and database operations, are requested and put aside until the results are ready and returned [...]
For the past 6 months I’ve been spending most of my time building a new service called Sled. I’ll write more about Sled in the coming weeks, but for now all you need to know is that Sled is a collaborative list making tool for small groups. Sled is built entirely in JavaScript, both on [...]
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