Who's Hiring?

• An exciting opportunity for a Software Engineer to join Apple's Messaging Services team. We build the cloud systems that power some of the busiest applications in the world. You'll have the opportunity to explore a wide range of technologies, developing the server software that is driving the future of messaging and mobile services. To apply please visit this URL. 
• Two Sigma is building our next generation research environment, and we're looking for a functional programmer with a passion for distributed computing. We're scaling machine learning and operations research to tens of thousands of CPUs. Please send qualifications to buildstuff@twosigma.com.
• Have strong LAMP skills and the ability to make systems really scale?  Our Client – a multibillion dollar global entity, has Retained us to find someone who can lead the Architecture of a portfolio of LAMP oriented companies. Interested applicants should email WAllen@Cendea.com.
• Blurocket is looking for smart and fun people to build its next generation ecommerce platform.  If creating scalable services is in your DNA, let us know! (Salary $250k+). Apply over at StackOverflow.
• Amazing things are happening at Dow Jones – help build the next generation News and Media platforms that serve the best journalism in the world. High-impact, passionate, and driven technologists thrive in our environment, building platforms that deliver trusted content that enlightens and inspires millions around the world.  Please apply online
• LogicMonitor is looking for a Front End developer to have a huge impact, be valued, realize their dreams, and help us realize ours. We are looking for someone to own the code that delivers the design and usability of LogicMonitor's enterprise SaaS application(s). Please apply online. 
• New Relic is looking for a Java Scalability Engineer in Portland, OR. Ready to scale a web service with more incoming bits/second than Twitter?  http://newrelic.com/about/jobs

Fun and Informative Events

• Surge - The Scalability & Performance Conference, presented by OmniTI is happening on Sept. 12th-13th. Special, High Scalability Reader Rate: $50 off registration--now through September 10! Book hotel and get $50 off, from OmniTI. FREE Puppet training w/registration, September 11.
• It's back! Join the MySQL Community at the annual Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo in Santa Clara, April 22-25. This year's conference features an outstanding lineup of 92 speakers delivering 112 breakout sessions over three days! 
• Visit Budapest this July and learn from those who have been in the trenches of building highly scalable systems at RAMP.

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• LogicMonitor - Hosted monitoring of your entire technology stack. Dashboards, trending graphs, alerting. Try it free and be up and running in just 15 minutes.
• AppDynamics is the very first free product designed for troubleshooting Java performance while getting full visibility in production environments. Visit http://www.appdynamics.com/free.
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