The number 402 is following me, you could call it my lucky number. And apparently I’m sharing the luck with my cofounders. I should probably take our investors’ money to Vegas and bet on 402. Back when I first moved to the east coast my first apartment was at 402 Broadway in Cambridge. My office at MIT, where I first met and worked with my cofounders was in Building 26, office 402. When we started Cloudant we set up shop in a small basement office at 402 Highland Ave. in Somerville. Starting to get creepy right? Well, this week we finally moved into our new office space in the south end. We had outgrown the place in Davis Sq. and as much as we are going to miss its horror-movie ambiance (no really, when we moved in that office looked like the set of “Saw”) we couldn’t be more excited about our new digs. Where are they? 580 Harrison Avenue, Suite 402. If I were a man that believed in such things, I would think the universe was trying to tell me something. My colleagues tell me that 402 is an obscure HTTP error code for “Payment Required.” Maybe the universe is calling in some IOUs, or maybe it’s just suggesting that we need to charge more.

Anyway, here are a few pictures of the team working in the new space. The new office has exposed brick wall, large windows without bars on them, and enough room for more than three desks. All of these amenities were lacking in the old office.

It’s a big upgrade from our previous place. If you have the time and the inclination, please stop by to say hi. We’re always happy to chat about CouchDB, startups, complex data problems, NOSQL, and our favorite Twilight Zone episodes. Oh yeah, and if all this sounds enticing (and how could it not?) we’re looking for a crack devops engineer to join the team. If you are serious about keeping the servers well-oiled, building distributed systems, and providing a great cloud service, apply here