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It's not a huge market. I usually have a queue of clients, but both deal flow and actual scheduling are wildly variable--sometimes I'll go without income for si

by aphyr 3y ago

It's not a huge market. I usually have a queue of clients, but both deal flow and actual scheduling are wildly variable--sometimes I'll go without income for six months or more. I've considered hiring one or two people, but I couldn't offer the kind of stability people need from an employer. I do subcontract though! Editing, legal, finance, occasional code, that sort of thing. There's a lot of folks out there who can do basic testing work with Jepsen. I've taught... I dunno, maybe a few hundred people directly in Jepsen workshops. A couple people have worked alongside me, and I'm sure lots more have learned from the docs online. Writing a report is a more involved problem--certainly not intractable, but for me it involves testing, experiment design, lots of reading, doc review, writing, editing, finding reviewers, and of course all the business stuff.

orthoxerox 3y ago
> There's a lot of folks out there who can do basic testing work with Jepsen. I've taught... I dunno, maybe a few hundred people directly in Jepsen workshops. I don't know why all the DBMS vendors don't just have a guy on the QA team whose job is to run and interpret Jepsen tests for every new version. It's certainly a better option than eventually getting a damning report written by you.
bsaul 3y ago
Thanks, that's very interesting. I would have assumed that with today's world of distributed database being so common, and with the various technologies available, lots of people would be interested in hiring experts in ensuring database work as advertized. But i guess people trust the product documentation too much. As an anecdote i was surprised to discover mongodb had a second life in the corporate world as a standard , certified technology to store critical documents. So yeah, maybe people aren't really that aware of the kinds of nasty gotchas that lure in their systems.

by aphyr 3y ago

orthoxerox 3y ago

> There's a lot of folks out there who can do basic testing work with Jepsen. I've taught... I dunno, maybe a few hundred people directly in Jepsen workshops. I don't know why all the DBMS vendors don't just have a guy on the QA team whose job is to run and interpret Jepsen tests for every new version. It's certainly a better option than eventually getting a damning report written by you.

bsaul 3y ago

Thanks, that's very interesting. I would have assumed that with today's world of distributed database being so common, and with the various technologies available, lots of people would be interested in hiring experts in ensuring database work as advertized. But i guess people trust the product documentation too much. As an anecdote i was surprised to discover mongodb had a second life in the corporate world as a standard , certified technology to store critical documents. So yeah, maybe people aren't really that aware of the kinds of nasty gotchas that lure in their systems.