Indeed You Can: Get a Job Using Puppet, and Learn More About Indeed.com
Indeed uses puppet in testing, integration, staging and production environments.
Puppet has enabled Indeed Operations to scale to hundreds of servers across multiple datacenters with differing infrastructure while maintaining configuration consistency in testing, integration, staging and production environments.
Our new Vice President of Marketing, Scott Johnston, was recently poking around on Indeed.com and discovered the trend feature. He did a quick search:
In an email to all, our CEO proclaimed: “Pretty sweet.”
What can only be described as a the virtual equivalent of the Ninja Turtles signature jumping group high five quickly followed. One thing we’ve all learned is that unless the x-axis is “time after doomsday” and the y-axis is “pain and suffering incurred,” graphs going up and to the right are worth celebrating.
Fortunately, That Guy came along before someone pressed the red button that pops all the bottles of champaign hidden in the walls and drops the confetti from the ceiling:
“I’m having a hell of a time reconciling the Y axis of that graph. What does 35,000 “Percentage Growth” mean? I think the absolute mode is even more telling. If I’m reading it right, the percentage of all job postings matching “puppet” has tripled since early 2009.”
We’re all fortunate for this email as it saved us from doing shots of Patron while hanging off the balconies (probably in violation of a few laws), but why does That Guy always have to come along and ruin the party? Honestly.
Predicament: I have no idea what these graphs mean either, and I’ve already agreed to write this blog post about how awesome they are. Insert expletive!
I went on a long hunt to learn more about these graphs in order to draw conclusions about the growth of jobs for people with Puppet know how, and other information like the total number of jobs on Indeed in 2010, and the total number of jobs in Indeed.com. However, I learned that the relative growth lines are showing percentage growth from a baseline of zero and that the process that goes into generating them is rather complex, using algorithms and moving averages to smooth out cyclical factors and numerous variables unique to online job postings. At the end of the day I am still a bit confused by what they indicate, but hell, they go up and to the right.
What I can say with confidence is that there are 1,160 available jobs for people with Puppet knowhow on Indeed.com. That’s a pretty good sign that learning Puppet and participating in a Puppet Training can help you find your next gig, or become more valuable to your organization. Don’t you think it’s time you checked out our training opportunities?
I also learned the following:
“We’ve used Puppet for about two years. We use Puppet to maintain configuration consistency after provisioning servers. Puppet also manages httpd, java, tomcat, log4j, MongoDB, and operating system configuration.
Indeed uses Puppet in testing, integration, staging and production environments.
Puppet has enabled Indeed Operations to scale to hundreds of servers across multiple datacenters with differing infrastructure while maintaining configuration consistency in testing, integration, staging and production environments.We adopted Puppet to assist in standardizing and enforcing configuration consistency. Since we began harnessing Puppet, the number of servers we manage has grown from a handful to hundreds. Provisioning new servers and application instances with Puppet has enabled us to grow rapidly with peace of mind.
Jason Koppe, Systems Administrator at Indeed
Some other interesting searches on Indeed.com:
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“We’re all fortunate for this email as it saved us from doing shots of Patron while hanging off the balconies (probably in violation of a few laws), but why does That Guy always have to come along and ruin the party? Honestly.”
Thanks for sharing the great news and hilarious commentary. I talked to a recruiter today in Atlanta and she has never heard of puppet. This leads me to think that maybe smart decisions to use datacenter automation are more commonly made with west coast companies than east coast companies. Does your data show any location specific results?
Unfortunately I don’t have access to Indeed’s database, and while their search allows filtering by location it does so by miles from a city or zip code, which doesn’t get us the high level east versus west split. I suppose in a broad sense you’ll find more bleeding edge technology on the west coast emanating from the Bay Area but we’ve found Puppet to be pervasive throughout the country, and the world. There are quite a few sharp folks in Atlanta, too. John Vincent, a presenter at PuppetConf, is based out of Atlanta. A local DevOps group has taken root in Atlanta, and I hear tell of a Puppet User Group starting in Atlanta.