☕ $10 Billion Dollar Low Code Tool?
We added a job board! A Low Code Developer Tool is now valued at 10 billion dollars. Plus, amazing resources for DevOps and a Microsoft Interview Question! Also, China's new digital currency!
Hey Guys,
I’m super excited to announce that we’re adding a new section to Quastor Daily!
A job board!
The jobs we’ll be listing are all fully remote!
We’ll try and get a good mix of backend, frontend and full-stack engineering jobs.
If you’re interested in any of these jobs (shown below), please reply to this email with your resume and we’ll put you in touch with the hiring manager (if you’re a good fit).
As always, if you have any feedback/criticisms about Quastor Daily, please feel free to reply to this email!
Industry News
OutSystems raises $150 million dollars at a $9.5 billion dollar valuation
A big trend in the Software Industry is giving developers more leverage. A great example of that is with the Serverless trend, which we covered in our last email.
Another example is with Low Code tools. You’ve probably heard of No Code tools, like Wordpress or Webflow ( tools to build websites without knowing HTML/CSS).
Low Code tools are a step higher; where you still have visual tools, but developers have the ability to write code to modify the visual tools to add more functionality.
This allows developers to build applications much faster, as they can use off-the-shelf software for the majority of their apps, but also modify the software where necessary. That’s the theory at least.
OutSystems is a company that develops low code tools in the B2B space. Their platform allows businesses to quickly build software services to suit their specific needs.
The OutSystem platform handles scaling, security and also provides machine learning capabilities. They also provide integrations that make it easy to connect with services like PayPal, Twilio, Salesforce, MongoDB and hundreds of other apps.
The company has been growing massively over the past few years and they’ve 9x’d their valuation since 2018!
The company now raised $150 million dollars at $9.5 billion dollar valuation and will probably be IPO’ing soon.
Tech Snippets
How They SRE is an amazing resource on best practices, tools, techniques and the culture of Site Reliability Engineering.
It’s a Github Repo collecting best practices on DevOps, Chaos Engineering, Automation and Site Reliability Engineering from a ton of big tech companies
India has been considering a ban of private ownership of cryptocurrencies. Balaji Srinivasan, ex-CTO of Coinbase, wrote an amazing essay on why banning cryptocurrency would be bad for India and what the country should do instead.
China is investing heavily in building their own digital currency with the “e-yuan”. As part of a test, they’ve given away tens of millions of renminbi that can only be downloaded through a digital wallet. China is intent on becoming the first large economy to unveil the digital currency, showcasing it to the world at next year’s Winter Olympics (in Beijing).
Job Board
If you’re interested in any of these positions, please reply to this email with your resume. We’ll put you in touch with the hiring manager if there’s a good fit!
Movatic - Full Stack Developer
Movatic is a rapidly growing startup that is all about making renting and sharing easy. Our platform enables users to rent bikes, scooters, and bike parking at 450+ Movatic powered systems across the world. We believe in a culture of collaboration, hard work, and work-life balance to maximize speed and productivity.
Qualifications
2 years of experience of full stack development (or relevant CS degree)
Experience in React and React Native
Programming experience in Python or a similar language
Experience with a relational database
ConvertKit - Full Stack Developer
ConvertKit is delightful email marketing software built for creators. We help creators own their audience and turn fans into customers. For makers, authors, chefs, musicians, athletes, and anyone else making a living by creating the culture we all love, there isn’t a better tool for reaching inboxes.
Qualifications
Experience with React and Ruby/Rails
Experience architecting code that is accessible, scalable, maintainable, and performant
Confidence architecting end-to-end features
Interview Question
You are given a 9 x 9 array that represents a Sudoku board.
Write a function that determines if the Sudoku board is valid.
A valid board follows these rules
Each row must contain the digits 1 - 9 without repetition
Each column must contain the digits 1 - 9 without repetition
Each of the nine 3 x 3 sub-boxes of the grid must contain the digits 1 - 9 without repetition
The sudoku board may not be entirely filled. If there are empty boxes, then validate the board based off the filled boxes.
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