Application Scale and Quartz "Where"

I don't think it is to controversial to say that Quartz Scheduler is by far the dominant Open-Source Java job scheduler. It provides fast, flexible, and extremely reliable job execution and it is embedded in just about everything out there. In the last 6 months or so we have added a new Terracotta backed version of Quartz, lots of bug fixes and a GUI for monitoring quartz when clustered with Terracotta. We have a lot more coming. The team is hard at work on what's next. My favorite feature on the Quartz 2.0 list, the one they are working on right now, is Job Location Control or what is code named "Where".

Some of the trends we are seeing in our user base include the leveraging of EC2, larger apps/user bases, demanding HA requirements and hardware farms. As a result, scaled-out architectures are becoming common place in many IT environments. Scheduling work in these large multi-node environments is becoming a part of many software developers lives. Currently, Quartz supports scale-out but with little control over how the work is distributed. While this is a good start one quickly runs into problems like assigning jobs to machines that have the processing power to the work on them at the time the job is fired. Or execute the job where the data is local. Or just perform certain jobs on certain classes of machines do to their location or by purpose.

Well that is "where" we are headed. In the next few months the Quartz guys working with the Terracotta Guys and the Ehcache guys are developing a solution to the above set of problems. We'll be giving the same flexible and reliable scaled out scheduler but adding a new level of control. We are adding the "Where"

Stay tuned...

Hiring at Terracotta - Performance/Testing Engineer and or Lead

Working at Terracotta is just about the best job someone could want (my humble opinion). Fast paced, super smart people, lots of interesting problems and widely adopted products wrapped up in a nice little package known as a fast growing startup. So send your resume now!

These positions can be either in San Francisco or Noida India.

About Terracotta:

Terracotta is the a fast growing company behind the most widely used software for application scalability, availability and performance. Our software is deployed in more than 250,000 enterprise installations, including the majority of the Fortune 2000.

Snap-in Scale and Performance

Terracotta's software products provide snap-in performance and scale for enterprise applications. With a simple change in two lines of configuration, Terracotta customers can run enterprise applications 10x faster and scale them―from one node, to 1000s, even to the cloud―without re-writing code or compromising performance or reliability.

A Leader in Distributed Caching

In “The Forrester Wave™: Elastic Caching Platforms, Q2 2010,” Forrester named Terracotta a Leader in this emerging market and ranked us strongest in strategy among eight elastic caching platforms.

http://www.terracotta.org

Where we are:

Our main headquarters are in San Francisco, CA in the SOMA area. We have an office in Noida, India and we have super star developers all over the world.

Description for LEAD QA Engineer

At Terracotta quality and stability in our product are our primary

objectives. Join our highly motivated, fast paced, agile, quality driven development team

where you will have many great opportunities to make an impact on

product capabilities and success in your role as QA Lead.

As a valued member of our tech lead team you will:

* Develop, maintain, and enhance both unit testing and performance

testing frameworks

* Design test strategies, develop test tools and implement test cases to

ensure highest quality deliverables for maintenace and new feature releases

* Improve the overall productivity of all of your co-workers by

identifying tools and processes to increase overall efficiency

* Create and maintain functional, performance, stress and endurance tests

* Diagnose and debug issues in a production environment

* Work closely with Engineering to understand the Product Architecture

and work on identifying, designing or enhancing existing test frameworks

to support backend test development

* Mentor and manage QA Engineers in a distributed team

Qualifications

* Proven track record as a lead in development and/or QA

* Motivated to improve existing processes, test strategies

* Strong knowledge of Java or other related programming languages

* Strong Knowledge in at least one scripting language such as Perl or Ruby

* Experience in creating back end test frameworks

* Ability to work independently to triage issues and prioritize tasks

* Strong understanding of QA Process

* Strong communication skills (verbal and written)

* Experience with code coverage and test tool development

* Experience with UNIX

* Experience with distributed caches, high availability products, and/or NoSQL solutions

* Experience with common java frameworks and containers such as Spring, Jetty, Hibernate, Ehcache, Quartz

* Ability to focus on multiple projects while in differing SDLC phases

If that's you and you meet most of the below criteria send us your resume careers@terracottatech.com.

Hiring at Terracotta...

Working at Terracotta is just about the best job someone could want (my humble opinion). Fast paced, super smart people, lots of interesting problems and widely adopted products wrapped up in a nice little package known as a fast growing startup. So send your resume now!

About Terracotta:

Terracotta is the a fast growing company behind the most widely used software for application scalability, availability and performance. Our software is deployed in more than 250,000 enterprise installations, including the majority of the Fortune 2000.

Snap-in Scale and Performance

Terracotta's software products provide snap-in performance and scale for enterprise applications. With a simple change in two lines of configuration, Terracotta customers can run enterprise applications 10x faster and scale them―from one node, to 1000s, even to the cloud―without re-writing code or compromising performance or reliability.

A Leader in Distributed Caching

In “The Forrester Wave™: Elastic Caching Platforms, Q2 2010,” Forrester named Terracotta a Leader in this emerging market and ranked us strongest in strategy among eight elastic caching platforms.

http://www.terracotta.org

Where we are:

Our main headquarters are in San Francisco, CA in the SOMA area. We have super star developers all over the world.

Who we are looking for:

Have you written or worked on a distributed system, messaging system or NoSQL solution? Do you love cool, hard problems? Are you good at design API's that work well in todays Java Applications? Can you work both in a group and on your own?

Qualifications:

• Works hard and solves hard problems
• Strong OO/Framework design sense
• Understand the Java Landscape in a deep way (i.e. Spring, J2EE, Ehcache, Quartz, Rest, SOAP, NoSQL)
• Excited about performance, caching and scale-out
• Love to code and write tests
• Works well in a team and individually
• Believes that the only way to know if something works is to test it in a repeatable way

Nice to have:

• Experience with open-source
• Live in/near San Francisco
• Tech Lead experience

Responsibilities:

• Design and build the next generation of scale-out, performance and HA software.
• Contribute to and extend Terracotta, Ehcache and/or Quartz Scheduler, some of the most popular and widely used frameworks in Java

If that's you and you meet most of the below criteria send us your resume careers@terracottatech.com.