[Author's note: This blog post accompanies the Seattle React.js Meetup we hosted on September 19, 2018, watch the recording] At Qumulo, we build a scale-out distributed file system, and building such a system, as it turns out, is hard. We have layers upon...
Since the inception of Qumulo, we’ve understood teams are most innovative when they feel psychologically safe. Safe enough to take appropriate risks, to try new things, to learn from them quickly, and to produce a product that is both novel in approach and safe for...
Before joining Qumulo eight months ago, I thought I had left behind the creativity and collaborative culture of my college days. At Harvey Mudd College (class of ‘15), I learned and collaborated with a stunningly intelligent and motivated cohort inside and outside of...
The Qumulo engineering internship is unique for a lot of reasons. You get to help build a highly scalable, distributed file system. You get to ship code to actual customers every two weeks. There’s a ton that can be said about the groundbreaking technology we’re...
Before I came to Qumulo, I had gotten so jaded as a software engineer working on UI at other companies, that I gave up on good engineering practices. I felt like Code Monkey for much of my career, working hard on meeting deadlines and building, leaving no time for...
As a startup, Qumulo gives its engineers a lot of influence in deciding how we do things. And since joining as an intern five years ago, I’ve gotten to be involved in many of the important decisions Engineering has made. So Qumulo’s decision to start using the Rust...
You may have read that Qumulo builds a modern, highly scalable file storage system. But what does that really mean? Let’s break it down: A file system You may not know this, but you’re probably already familiar with scalable file storage systems. Every laptop has a...
My route to Qumulo began after I was laid off from a major mobile phone company and decided to launch my own startup from home while spending time with my 10-month-old son. As rewarding as that experience was personally, it was not as rewarding financially...
We strive to make engineering at Qumulo an organization that is agile and self-organizes. It is your teammates ho drive both your work satisfaction and work quality – they are the people with whom you work most closely from day to day.
It turns out that some of the innovative aspects of Qumulo’s design draw from a number of groundbreaking techniques that have been developed for file systems over the years, including log-structured file systems. To explain this, we’ll give a bit of history about how file systems have historically ensured consistency in the event of unclean shutdowns such as power failures
In Qumulo engineering, every team member has at least one coach who works directly with them and their team every day. Not the kind of “coach” who’s all up in your business telling you what to do, but the kind who asks questions and seeks to help you deepen your own understanding. Coaches also help you with self-accountability on your self-generated improvement goals.
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