It is that time of the year, again:
Percona Live is the name of this years MySQL conference in the Santa Clara Hyatt Regency.
Booking.com is there, and
we are hiring, looking specifically for
Admins and DBAs, but we also have Developer positions open.
Meet Nicolai and Sheila at the booth, if you have any questions.
I am working for this small "not-really-a-travel-agency" in Amsterdam for almost 3 years now (Booking.com is part of the
Priceline Group of Companies): We are reserving hotels rooms for guests using a website, and we sleep several hundred thousand people, each night.
To accomplish that we are operating a three-digit number of MySQL database servers on CentOS in about three dozen replication hierarchies, automating system administration as good as possible using puppet. Our developers are abusing these boxes using Apache and mod_perl. Because we are still growing faster than the market, we are looking for multiple MySQL DBAs. The positions are based in Amsterdam, NL and Cambridge, UK.
An applicant should have multiple years of experience with MySQL, with a focus on InnoDB, replication and partitions. Good working knowledge of Linux (CentOS), experience with Puppet or general Linux system administration skills are a useful bonus. Experience with operations in large scale environments is, too.
Booking.com can offer help in relocation and with the administrative and legal formalities that come with working abroad. Also, the Netherlands have an attractive tax model for "Knowledge Workers" which may be applicable for you, and again we might be able to help with that as well.
Company language is english, and we are located in attractive parts of the city centers in the cities where we are present. Your colleagues in IT are coming from at least a dozen countries all over the world. The entire production is completely based on open source products, of course. Booking.com is hosting the perl git repository, and contributes to the development of Perl, Puppet and MariaDB as well as a few other things. Some of your future colleagues are likely to have authored some of the software you are using every day.
Links:
DBA Amsterdam (804-006),
DBA Cambridge 569-006)
Ok, this is my highest post so far: I am on the way to the UC 2006 and I am posting this using in-flight internet from 30,000ft height. The connection is not too bad. Ping times look like this:
kris@linux:~> ping -c 3 193.98.110.1
PING 193.98.110.1 (193.98.110.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 193.98.110.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=237 time=609 ms
64 bytes from 193.98.110.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=237 time=709 ms
64 bytes from 193.98.110.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=237 time=640 ms
--- 193.98.110.1 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2006ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 609.600/653.176/709.380/41.702 ms
That's not too bad, I believe.
Jim Starkey: "I wonder why there are so few women in Open Source Development."
Monty: "Well, women actually have a life."
MySQL is not only providing flickr with their database, we are contributing a number of images as well. :)
Here is my little list of MySQLers on flickr. If you have more, please leave the URL in the comments.
Brian Aker
Carl Collier (added)
Chad Miller
Colin Charles
Domas Mituzas
Elliot Murphy
Gerardo Narvaja
Jim Winstead
Mark Leith
As
reported earlier I have been taking the MySQL core and pro exams. This morning I found two letters from Denmark in my mail, wherein The Company deemed me fit and bestowed upon me the vast powers of the Certified MySQL Professional.
My
certification IDs are 73899 and 74024 and the password is "public".
This is the MySQL Certification Stude Guide, Version 4.1. It was the foundation of my
preparation for the MySQL 4 Core and Pro exams I took at the
MySQL Consulting Bootcamp 2005. The test results are not yet in, so I cannot tell you if it worked. :) I complemented my preperations with practical experiments and by simply reading my way through the
MySQL Online Manual.
I can tell you about the Guide, and the Test, though.
Continue reading "MySQL certification - the experience"
Although I will join MySQL not before November, 1st, I managed to attend the MySQL Consulting Bootcamp 2005 in Munich. The meeting started last Monday, September, 5th, with all members of the new EMEA consulting team seeing each other for the first time and lasted a week.
My personal blog has
Images of the team and
Hofbrauhaus Impressions.
Continue reading "MySQL Consulting Bootcamp 2005"
