Leaving Hibernating Rhinos
After working for a while as a core developer for RavenDB, it is time for me to move on. Starting September, I will no longer be with Hibernating Rhinos working, supporting and training on RavenDB as my day job.I love RavenDB. It is a great product, and I'm sure it will get very far. The design decisions behind it make it be real art. The way it breaks old bad habits we developers have and the design it enforces us to use, all make you build overall better apps. Finally a database that actually helps you do your job without any real compromise.
However, from now on, RavenDB for me will be an open-source project which I'm involved in. As time permits, I will continue to hang out in the mailing list and provide support, perhaps even adding features or fixing bugs from time to time. I will also continue providing training and consulting, on-site and remote. My next scheduled trip is to London during the first 2 weeks of September. I still have a few open slots for UK-based companies, so feel free to shoot me an e-mail. I will also deliver this free talk on RavenDB at SkillsMatter on September 12th while there, and will be happy to take any RavenDB related questions after it or over a beer (good beer and conversation always buys me off..). My next gig is with Buzzilla, an Israeli-based company which builds software that can track, monitor and analyze on-line conversation in social networks and the general Internet. A lot of cutting edge stuff is going on there, involving Machine Learning, NLP and search engines, so that's pretty exciting. I'm going to be leading a development team building a new search engine platform, tackling problems like distributed search and multi-lingual content, and working with BigData, which is always fun. Great times ahead!