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Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

I was at Amazon for about six and a half years, and now I've been at Google for that long. One thing that struck me immediately about the two companies -- an impression that has been reinforced almost daily -- is that Amazon does everything wrong, and Google does everything right. Sure, it's a sweeping generalization, but a surprisingly accurate one. It's pretty crazy. There are probably a hundred or even two hundred different ways you can compare the two companies, and Google is superior in all but three of them, if I recall correctly. I actually did a spreadsheet at one point but Legal wouldn't let me show it to anyone, even though recruiting loved it.

I mean, just to give you a very brief taste: Amazon's recruiting process is fundamentally flawed by having teams hire for themselves, so their hiring bar is incredibly inconsistent across teams, despite various efforts they've made to level it out. And their operations are a mess; they don't real

Fundamentals: why state machines?

States. The final frontier. These are the voyages of an enterprising developer. Her eternal mission: to explore strange new techniques, to seek out better ways to engineer for mental models and new design patterns. To boldly go where a few awesome devs have gone before.

So you’ve found our poignant guide to SCXML and surely you’re wondering “Why should I want to go out of my way to use formal state machines?” or something like that. Hopefully this introduction addresses that kind of question.

An example: Nancy’s RPG

The problem

Go (Golang) GOOS and GOARCH

All of the following information is based on go version go1.17.1 darwin/amd64.

GOOS Values

GOOS	Out of the Box
`aix`	✅
`android`	✅

	-- show running queries (pre 9.2)
	SELECT procpid, age(clock_timestamp(), query_start), usename, current_query
	FROM pg_stat_activity
	WHERE current_query != '<IDLE>' AND current_query NOT ILIKE '%pg_stat_activity%'
	ORDER BY query_start desc;

	-- show running queries (9.2)
	SELECT pid, age(clock_timestamp(), query_start), usename, query
	FROM pg_stat_activity
	WHERE query != '<IDLE>' AND query NOT ILIKE '%pg_stat_activity%'

	package main

	import (
	"os"
	"log"
	"net"
	"strconv"
	"strings"
	)

	package main

	import (
	"bytes"
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"log"
	"mime/multipart"
	"net/http"
	"os"

	with
	dau as (
	-- This part of the query can be pretty much anything.
	-- The only requirement is that it have three columns:
	-- dt, user_id, inc_amt
	-- Where dt is a date and user_id is some unique identifier for a user.
	-- Each dt-user_id pair should be unique in this table.
	-- inc_amt represents the amount of value that this user created on dt.
	-- The most common case is
	-- inc_amt = incremental revenue from the user on dt

	const MY_DOMAIN = "agodrich.com"
	const START_PAGE = "https://www.notion.so/gatsby-starter-notion-2c5e3d685aa341088d4cd8daca52fcc2"
	const DISQUS_SHORTNAME = "agodrich"

	addEventListener('fetch', event => {
	event.respondWith(fetchAndApply(event.request))
	})

	const corsHeaders = {
	"Access-Control-Allow-Origin": "*",