Seeking a Postgres Expert (or tips on how and where to find a Postgres expert): http://www.documentcloud.org/blog/2009/11/17/seeking-consultants/ DocumentCloud (http://www.documentcloud.org) seeks a Postgres expert to consult with our lead developer on our architecture plans and help us evaluate our replication plans. We are a group of journalists and coders at the New York Times and ProPublica with a 2-year grant from the Knight Foundation to develop a shared index of primary source documents used in investigative reporting work. DocumentCloud will be a research tool for reporters, a semantic search engine (via OpenCalais), and a participant in the web of linked data. DocumentCloud will be free and open source software. You can review our code releases to date at http://github.com/documentcloud We're based in New York City but open to considering consultants who aren't. We seek an expert-level PostgreSQL Consultant: someone with experience working with sharded Postgres installations, skilled at tuning Postgres for full text searches over very large datasets (potentially approaching hundreds of thousands of documents) and well versed in best practices for deploying Postgres on EC2. If you think you might be a good fit, please forward your resume, a rate quote and a short description of particularly relevant work to: jobs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with "Postgres Consultant" in the subject line. -- ____________________________________ Amanda B Hickman Program Director, Document Cloud http://www.documentcloud.org tel 917 655 2579 -- Sent via pgsql-jobs mailing list (pgsql-jobs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-jobs
