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Just started working at Red Hat about a month ago. Absolutely love working for this company! Especially that most engineers use GNU/Linux of some sort. Great to

Just started working at Red Hat about a month ago. Absolutely love working for this company! Especially that most engineers use GNU/Linux of some sort. Great to see this!

rsync 10y ago
"Just started working at Red Hat about a month ago." I have something I'd like to ask you ... Two years ago, at the RSA convention, I ran into a redhat employee and was chatting about (unix) and I mentioned that I was the founder of rsync.net with the expectation that he knew exactly who we were and what we did. He had no idea and had never heard of us. I felt like I had uncovered an enormous flaw in my outreach and relations efforts if someone at redhat had no idea who we were. But now I'm not so sure ... I have a feeling that somehow the redhat ecosystem and the people that use it are quite a bit differently focused than the HN crowd and people that are UNIX enthusiasts for the sake of UNIX. I wonder what you think ?
- ElijahLynn 10y ago
  Yeah, there are quite a diverse set of people working at Red Hat. There are a lot of different areas to be involved in as well. For instance, I am in the marketing department and am a software engineer for www.redhat.com. Nothing to do really with the engineering of the product itself. I have knowledge of rsync.net (even emailed with you once I think) but that was for personal hobbyish reasons, zfs syncing of my desktop. I could see many people never hearing of rsync.net though, until you have the need you usually don't know about stuff. Well, unless you are on HN, but even then I gloss over a lot of stuff that currently isn't in my "need" bucket.
- jaboutboul 10y ago
  The make up of the employees is pretty diverse and not everyone there is knowledgeable about every piece that ships. In fact some solutions engineers are hyper-specialized at only their specific piece of the puzzle that they may not even be familiar with more than a few specific products or pieces of products that Red Hat ships. It's not a bad thing though. It allows them to be super-expert at whatever it is they know and leverage that knowledge to assist customers. So someone who is deep into encryption may not necessarily know what Rsync does, he is not devops after all and might have never maintained a server, and doesn't keep local backups (shame on them though) to need to use rsync. There are also marketing people and finance people, etc.
- madhadron 10y ago
  To be fair, I've been developing on Linux for around twenty years now, and I've never heard of rsync.net. Rsync, of course, but not rsync.net.
- cyphar 10y ago
  > Two years ago, at the RSA convention, I ran into a redhat employee and was chatting about (unix) and I mentioned that I was the founder of rsync.net with the expectation that he knew exactly who we were and what we did. That's a bit presumptuous isn't it? While many people have heard of rsync I've only heard of you because of HackerNews, and not everyone reads this site. When I first saw the URL "rsync.net" I didn't think of "backups", I thought that you maintained rsync or provided some sort of support for rsync. > But now I'm not so sure ... I have a feeling that somehow the redhat ecosystem and the people that use it are quite a bit differently focused than the HN crowd and people that are UNIX enthusiasts for the sake of UNIX. I work for SUSE, not RedHat, but our culture is incredibly similar (and I collaborate with people from RedHat every day). The makeup of companies like us is incredibly varied, and it's not really fair to make generalisations like that. I know quite a few people who work for RedHat and SUSE who are super obsessive about Unix and have hobbies that are massively tied to programming. But that doesn't suddenly mean that they will automatically know every startup that does cloud storage.
- flukus 10y ago
  You aren't exactly a household name. Does it matter if random people haven't heard of you though? The important thing is people looking for offsite backups can find you.
- pertymcpert 10y ago
  Who are you? Are you just using this post as an opportunity to plug your company?
ufo 10y ago
What sort of distros do the folks use there? I would have assumed everyone would be using RHEL or Fedora.
- cyphar 10y ago
  At SUSE engineers use a wide variety of distros. There's no company policy against using anything (some of my coworkers even use OSX). But I'd say that a fair few use openSUSE because that's the distribution that we all help maintain.

Just started working at Red Hat about a month ago. Absolutely love working for this company! Especially that most engineers use GNU/Linux of some sort. Great to see this!

rsync 10y ago

"Just started working at Red Hat about a month ago." I have something I'd like to ask you ... Two years ago, at the RSA convention, I ran into a redhat employee and was chatting about (unix) and I mentioned that I was the founder of rsync.net with the expectation that he knew exactly who we were and what we did. He had no idea and had never heard of us. I felt like I had uncovered an enormous flaw in my outreach and relations efforts if someone at redhat had no idea who we were. But now I'm not so sure ... I have a feeling that somehow the redhat ecosystem and the people that use it are quite a bit differently focused than the HN crowd and people that are UNIX enthusiasts for the sake of UNIX. I wonder what you think ?

ElijahLynn 10y ago
Yeah, there are quite a diverse set of people working at Red Hat. There are a lot of different areas to be involved in as well. For instance, I am in the marketing department and am a software engineer for www.redhat.com. Nothing to do really with the engineering of the product itself. I have knowledge of rsync.net (even emailed with you once I think) but that was for personal hobbyish reasons, zfs syncing of my desktop. I could see many people never hearing of rsync.net though, until you have the need you usually don't know about stuff. Well, unless you are on HN, but even then I gloss over a lot of stuff that currently isn't in my "need" bucket.
jaboutboul 10y ago
The make up of the employees is pretty diverse and not everyone there is knowledgeable about every piece that ships. In fact some solutions engineers are hyper-specialized at only their specific piece of the puzzle that they may not even be familiar with more than a few specific products or pieces of products that Red Hat ships. It's not a bad thing though. It allows them to be super-expert at whatever it is they know and leverage that knowledge to assist customers. So someone who is deep into encryption may not necessarily know what Rsync does, he is not devops after all and might have never maintained a server, and doesn't keep local backups (shame on them though) to need to use rsync. There are also marketing people and finance people, etc.
madhadron 10y ago
To be fair, I've been developing on Linux for around twenty years now, and I've never heard of rsync.net. Rsync, of course, but not rsync.net.
cyphar 10y ago
> Two years ago, at the RSA convention, I ran into a redhat employee and was chatting about (unix) and I mentioned that I was the founder of rsync.net with the expectation that he knew exactly who we were and what we did. That's a bit presumptuous isn't it? While many people have heard of rsync I've only heard of you because of HackerNews, and not everyone reads this site. When I first saw the URL "rsync.net" I didn't think of "backups", I thought that you maintained rsync or provided some sort of support for rsync. > But now I'm not so sure ... I have a feeling that somehow the redhat ecosystem and the people that use it are quite a bit differently focused than the HN crowd and people that are UNIX enthusiasts for the sake of UNIX. I work for SUSE, not RedHat, but our culture is incredibly similar (and I collaborate with people from RedHat every day). The makeup of companies like us is incredibly varied, and it's not really fair to make generalisations like that. I know quite a few people who work for RedHat and SUSE who are super obsessive about Unix and have hobbies that are massively tied to programming. But that doesn't suddenly mean that they will automatically know every startup that does cloud storage.
flukus 10y ago
You aren't exactly a household name. Does it matter if random people haven't heard of you though? The important thing is people looking for offsite backups can find you.
pertymcpert 10y ago
Who are you? Are you just using this post as an opportunity to plug your company?

ufo 10y ago

What sort of distros do the folks use there? I would have assumed everyone would be using RHEL or Fedora.

cyphar 10y ago
At SUSE engineers use a wide variety of distros. There's no company policy against using anything (some of my coworkers even use OSX). But I'd say that a fair few use openSUSE because that's the distribution that we all help maintain.