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Ask HN: Where to Go from Here?
Was hoping the hn community (which i've grown with over my decade+ career) would provide some original insight - I've been a backend/jvm/low latency engineer for a long time. I specialize in indexing the web and providing it to downstream processes in warc format. My current role involves upleveling junior engineers as the system is pretty mature at this point and I probably won't be promoted staying here. I could see myself building crawlers for a while but I'm not seeing any startups that need this skill. Where would you recommend I look for the next interesting project involving low latency jvm languages (like yc's backed questdb)
- tmaly 4y agoFinancial companies need to consume large amounts of data from external sources. In some cases there is a low-latency requirement. In all cases there is a reliably requirement. Pay at certain firms in this industry can meet or exceed FAANG
- abadger9 4y agoagreed, i think it's time to check out fintech; thank you
- joshxyz 4y ago- maybe other db featured in cmu database group? - maybe transition to finance where low latency stuff meets math problems?
- abadger9 4y agogreat idea, thank you
- badpun 4y agoMaybe try companies which do systems programming in Java, such as companies behind Elasticsearch, Apache Spark, Apache Cassandra etc. They're not doing low-latency work per se, but performance is definitely important for them.
- abadger9 4y agoyou're spot on - working at apache cassandra has been on my list for 7 years. Not a big fan of the databricks engineering team went to school with a few of them and didn't enjoy my interaction with them