Hacker News: manish_gill

New comment by manish_gill in "My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite"

manish_gill — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 14:20:41 +0000

Why are we so eager to dismiss the very personal experiences of Andrew - someone who envisioned and developed Zig from the ground up? It is entirely within the realm of possibility that what he describes here did transpire. He had bad experiences with one of the more popular projects within the ecosystem - something that he hoped would become successful but the incentives were clearly misaligned.

When in doubt - look at the incentives. And the incentives here are fairly obvious. On one hand we have an open source project that is focused on quality and craftsmanship, and on the other hand we have the world's biggest AI company.

I am not anti-AI. But things like taste and quality matter. And I trust the creator of Zig more than the creator of Bun when it comes to said taste.

New comment by manish_gill in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2026)"

manish_gill — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 13:01:34 +0000

ClickHouse | Distributed Data Infrastructure Engineer | Remote Hiring in the US right now. Seniors/Staff/Principal levels

ClickHouse is a popular, Open-Source OLAP Database. We are ClickHouse Inc, the company behind the database aiming to build the best in class real time data warehouse.

What we are looking for:

Distributed Systems / Cloud Engineers to build

    - AutoScaling Systems for a Cloud Database

    - A Distributed Caching Layer on top of S3 [0]

If you have experience in productionizing and maintaining distributed systems cloud-based multi-tenant caches - you would fit right in.

We also maintain our own ClickHouse based Data Infrastructure. Bonus points if you've worked on auto-scaling or other data-driven forecasting challenges in the past.

    Can work in a fast moving scale-up environment. Proactive and hands on.

    You must be independent and self-organized.

    Database SRE / Cache Operations experience

    Go, Kubernetes, Distributed Systems in general

    You will need to be able to do On-Call - debugging production infra, db or cache issues

    Low-level database programming (C++, ClickHouse) - This is crucial for the cache.

If you want to work on operating production critical databases/caches in the cloud on or write data-driven algorithms for autoscaling, consider applying! Send me an email: manish.gill [at] clickhouse [dot] com

[0] https://clickhouse.com/blog/building-a-distributed-cache-for...

New comment by manish_gill in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2026)"

manish_gill — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 23:30:14 +0000

ClickHouse | Senior Cloud Software Engineer - Distributed Systems / Cloud Databases / Kubernetes | Remote Hiring in the US right now. Seniors/Staff/Principal levels

ClickHouse is a popular, Open-Source OLAP Database. We are ClickHouse Inc, the company behind the database aiming to build the best in class real time data warehouse.

I am hiring for AutoScaling as well as Distributed Cache Production Engineer Roles

What we are looking for:

Distributed Systems / Cloud Engineers to build

    - AutoScaling Systems for a Cloud Database

    - A Distributed Caching Layer on top of S3 [0]

If you have experience in productionising cloud-based multi-tenant caches - you would fit right in.

We also maintain our own ClickHouse-based Data Infrastructure. Bonus points if you've worked on auto-scaling or other data-driven forecasting challenges in the past.

    Can work in a fast moving scale-up environment. Proactive and hands on.

    You must be independent and self-organized.

    Go, Kubernetes, Distributed Systems in general

    You'll need to be able to do On-Call - debugging production infra or db issues

    Low-level database programming (C++, ClickHouse) - This is crucial for the cache.

PS: If you're a pure DevOps person or a pure Data Engineer who wrangles data tools, please read the above requirements carefully before firing off an email. This role is an intersection of a lot of sub-roles, not a particular specialization

[0] https://clickhouse.com/blog/building-a-distributed-cache-for...

New comment by manish_gill in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2026)"

manish_gill — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 19:01:20 +0000

ClickHouse | Senior Cloud Software Engineer - Distributed Systems / Cloud Databases / Kubernetes | Remote Hiring in the US right now. Seniors/Staff/Principal levels.

ClickHouse is a popular, Open-Source OLAP Database. We are ClickHouse Inc, the company behind the database aiming to build the best in class real time data warehouse.

What we are looking for:

Distributed Systems / Cloud Engineers to build the AutoScaling Systems for a Cloud Database.

We also maintain our own ClickHouse-based Data Infrastructure. Bonus points if you've worked on auto-scaling or other data-driven forecasting challenges in the past.

    Can work in an early stage startup environment. Proactive and hands on.

    You must be independent and self-organized.

    Good at Go, Kubernetes (Understanding how to manage stateful services in a multi-cloud environment) and Distributed Systems in general.

    SQL / ClickHouse SQL (goes without saying)

    You'll need to be able to do On-Call - debugging production infra or db issues

    If you can do low-level database programming (C++, ClickHouse) that's added bonus.

If you want to work on operating production critical databases in the cloud on k8s + write data-driven algorithms for autoscaling, consider applying! Send me an email: manish.gill [at] clickhouse [dot] com

New comment by manish_gill in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)"

manish_gill — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 16:39:39 +0000

ClickHouse | Senior Cloud Software Engineer - Distributed Systems / Cloud Databases / Kubernetes | Remote

Hiring in the US right now. Seniors/Staff/Principal levels.

ClickHouse is a popular, Open-Source OLAP Database. We are ClickHouse Inc, the company behind the database aiming to build the best in class real time data warehouse.

What we are looking for:

Distributed Systems / Cloud Engineers to build the AutoScaling Systems for a Cloud Database.

We also maintain our own ClickHouse-based Data Infrastructure. Bonus points if you've worked on auto-scaling or other data-driven forecasting challenges in the past.

    Can work in an early stage startup environment. Proactive and hands on.

    You must be independent and self-organized.

    Good at Go, Kubernetes (Understanding how to manage stateful services in a multi-cloud environment) and Distributed Systems in general.

    SQL / ClickHouse SQL (goes without saying)

    You'll need to be able to do On-Call - debugging production infra or db issues

    If you can do low-level database programming (C++, ClickHouse) that's added bonus.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFoMsLMZKik

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufY_JFPpzRI

New comment by manish_gill in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

manish_gill — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 19:03:06 +0000

https://parallelthoughts.xyz/

New comment by manish_gill in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2025)"

manish_gill — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 20:41:23 +0000

ClickHouse | Senior Software Engineer - Distributed Systems / Cloud Data Infrastructure / Kubernetes | Remote

US remote preferred right now, EU is technically fine but I'm looking to ramp up in US atm

ClickHouse is a popular, Open-Source OLAP Database. We are ClickHouse Inc, the company behind the database aiming to build the best in class real time data warehouse.

What we are looking for:

Distributed Systems / Cloud Engineers to build the AutoScaling Systems for a Cloud Database.

We also maintain our own ClickHouse-based Data Infrastructure. Bonus points if you've worked on auto-scaling or other data-driven forecasting challenges in the past.

    Can work in an early stage startup environment. Proactive and hands on.

    You must be independent and self-organised.

    Good at Go, Kubernetes (Understanding how to manage stateful services in a multi-cloud environment)

    We have a Python service in our Recommendation pipeline, so some ML/Data Science knowledge would be good.

    SQL / ClickHouse SQL (goes without saying)

    You'll need to be able to do On-Call - debugging production infra or db issues

    If you can do low-level database programming (C++, ClickHouse) that's added bonus.

If you want to work on operating production critical databases in the cloud on k8s + write data-driven algorithms for autoscaling, consider applying!

Send me an email: manish.gill [at] clickhouse [dot] com

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFoMsLMZKik

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufY_JFPpzRI

New comment by manish_gill in "Scaling request logging with ClickHouse, Kafka, and Vector"

manish_gill — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 21:43:33 +0000

> Clickhouse is not good for joins

This is less and less true as time goes on tbh. 25.9 introduced Join Reordering as well - https://clickhouse.com/blog/clickhouse-release-25-09

New comment by manish_gill in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2025)"

manish_gill — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 17:40:22 +0000

ClickHouse | Senior Software Engineer - Distributed Systems / Cloud Data Infrastructure / Kubernetes | Remote

(US preferred right now, EU is technically fine but I'm looking to ramp up in US atm)

ClickHouse is a popular, Open-Source OLAP Database. We are ClickHouse Inc, the company behind the database aiming to build the best in class real time data warehouse.

What we are looking for:

Distributed Systems / Cloud Engineers to build the AutoScaling Systems for a Cloud Database.

We also maintain our own ClickHouse-based Data Infrastructure. Bonus points if you've worked on auto-scaling or other data-driven forecasting challenges in the past.

    Can work in an early stage startup environment. Proactive and hands on.

    You must be independent and self-organised.

    Good at Go, Kubernetes (Understanding how to manage stateful services in a multi-cloud environment)

    We have a Python service in our Recommendation pipeline, so some ML/Data Science knowledge would be good.

    SQL / ClickHouse SQL (goes without saying)

    You'll need to be able to do On-Call - debugging production infra or db issues

    If you can do low-level database programming (C++, ClickHouse) that's added bonus.

If you want to work on operating production critical databases in the cloud on k8s + write data-driven algorithms for autoscaling, consider applying!

Send me an email: manish.gill [at] clickhouse [dot] com

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFoMsLMZKik [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufY_JFPpzRI

PS: If you're a pure DevOps person or a pure Data Engineer who wrangles data tools, please consider the above requirements before firing off an email. This role is an intersection of a lot of sub-roles, not a particular specialization.

New comment by manish_gill in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2025)"

manish_gill — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 15:59:12 +0000

ClickHouse | Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure / Kubernetes | Remote (US / EU preferred)

ClickHouse is a popular, Open-Source OLAP Database. We are ClickHouse Inc, the company behind the database aiming to build the best in class real time data warehouse.

What we are looking for:

Cloud / Kubernetes Operator engineers to build the AutoScaling infrastructure. We also maintain our own ClickHouse-based Data Infrastructure. Bonus points if you've worked on autoscaling or other data-driven forecasting challenges in the past.

    Can work in an early stage startup environment. Proactive and hands on.

    Senior/Staff+ Engineer. You must be independent and self-organized.

    Good at Go, Kubernetes (Understanding how to manage stateful services in a multi-cloud environment)

    We have a Python service in our Recommendation pipeline, so some ML/Data Science knowledge would be good.

    SQL / ClickHouse SQL (goes without saying)

    You'll need to be able to do On-Call - debugging production infra or db issues

    If you can do low-level database programming (C++, ClickHouse) that's added bonus.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufY_JFPpzRI

New comment by manish_gill in "Frequent reauth doesn't make you more secure"

manish_gill — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 21:20:51 +0000

Okta / Lumos are the biggest offenders of this.

New comment by manish_gill in "Ask HN: Options for One-Handed Typing"

manish_gill — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 20:19:07 +0000

Co-incidentally, saw this video on Microsoft's VSCode Youtube channel yesterday - the Engineer in question was born without a right hand and shows her workflow with accessibility tools: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUPqKm5wVhw

Hope this helps your relative. Good luck.

Make Before Break: Kubernetes StatefulSet Semantics for ClickHouse Cloud

manish_gill — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 16:28:09 +0000

Article URL: https://clickhouse.com/blog/make-before-break-faster-scaling-mechanics-for-clickhouse-cloud

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43683063

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by manish_gill in "We clone a running VM in 2 seconds"

manish_gill — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 19:43:59 +0000

They tried running minecraft, but I wonder if a similar (or better) cloning is possible for a mission critical workload - like a database consuming a huge amount of memory. Neon uses QEMU to achieve this for example: https://neon.tech/docs/reference/glossary#live-migration but is that the only way?

New comment by manish_gill in "Teach, Don't Tell (2013)"

manish_gill — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 14:56:52 +0000

If people are still coming up with you for questions that the docs answer, then the docs are not discoverable. Nobody is going to sit through hours of docs to find that one small thing they are interested in knowing the answer to _right now_.

LLMs can solve this to some extend now tbh.

New comment by manish_gill in "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA"

manish_gill — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 20:29:24 +0000

Is it recommended or not? I've heard anecdotally that going through the Consular services to obtain EB1C is not recommended - because you can get denied easily without any protections you might get from being in the US.

New comment by manish_gill in "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA"

manish_gill — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 15:46:44 +0000

I think I qualify for EB-1C, but does one need to be present and already living in the US to apply for it, or can that happen from the current country of residence?

Or is the general path: L1 -> Move -> Apply for EB-1C once migrated.

The case of the vanishing CPU: A Linux kernel debugging story

manish_gill — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 01:54:12 +0000

Article URL: https://clickhouse.com/blog/a-case-of-the-vanishing-cpu-a-linux-kernel-debugging-story

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43286837

Points: 47

# Comments: 5

New comment by manish_gill in "Show HN: Berlin Swapfest – Electronics flea market"

manish_gill — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 15:10:50 +0000

If there are any of these hacker spaces that are friendly for English speakers (my German is only A2.1 sadly), I would love to join one of them :)

New comment by manish_gill in "Show HN: Berlin Swapfest – Electronics flea market"

manish_gill — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 15:09:31 +0000

I'm definitely gonna attend. See you there!