Ask HN: Working for companies that optimize software?

2 points by assemblylang 4 years ago | 2 comments

Inspired by an AskHN from a few days ago about working for "boring" companies.

I really enjoy the process of optimizing software, making it more reliable, faster, smaller code size, anything where a particular metric can be targeted and challenging yourself to hit that target or conclude it's impossible to hit after doing the math out and trying many possible paths.

The problem is, how do I go about finding jobs like this? It seems many dev jobs are focused on adding more features, but not optimizing the prior features. It's disappointing adding a new feature that I know will always be half baked, since I don't get to test the limits of the problem that particular feature is trying to solve. Any advice?

NicoJuicy 4 years ago |

Well, just encountered this by accident a couple of house ago:

https://ecoapm.com/.

Their Twitter provides better insights that it's similar to what you are looking for: https://twitter.com/ecoAPM?t=FUH0jSDA86ksk9pu77HsjA&s=09

smt88 4 years ago |

Very few companies optimize because it's cheaper to throw bigger hardware at a problem than to rewrite code.

You should look at database companies, though. There are a lot of them now, and they all really do care a lot about optimization.