SystemicEmotions

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

System Design Cheatsheet

Picking the right architecture = Picking the right battles + Managing trade-offs

Basic Steps

Clarify and agree on the scope of the system

User cases (description of sequences of events that, taken together, lead to a system doing something useful)
- Who is going to use it?
- How are they going to use it?

A curated list of AWS resources to prepare for the AWS Certifications

A curated list of awesome AWS resources you need to prepare for the all 5 AWS Certifications. This gist will include: open source repos, blogs & blogposts, ebooks, PDF, whitepapers, video courses, free lecture, slides, sample test and many other resources.

The Imposter's Handbook

This a collection of interesting links found in The Imposter's Handbook by Rob Conery.

Content:

Introduction
A Little History
The Tools
Customizing The Terminal

	/**
	* Convert an instance of google.visualization.DataTable to CSV
	* @param {google.visualization.DataTable} dataTable_arg DataTable to convert
	* @return {String} Converted CSV String
	*/
	function dataTableToCSV(dataTable_arg) {
	var dt_cols = dataTable_arg.getNumberOfColumns();
	var dt_rows = dataTable_arg.getNumberOfRows();

	var csv_cols = [];

	#!/usr/bin/perl

	# Copyright (c) 2015, Paul Ford, [email protected]
	# All rights reserved.
	#
	# Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
	# modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
	# are met:
	#
	# 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright

	curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/spinnaker/halyard/master/install/stable/InstallHalyard.sh

	sudo bash InstallHalyard.sh

	hal config deploy edit --type localdebian

	hal config storage edit --type redis


	echo "host: 0.0.0.0" \| tee \

	apiVersion: apps/v1beta1
	kind: Deployment
	metadata:
	name: azure-container-service-poc
	spec:
	replicas: 1
	strategy:
	rollingUpdate:
	maxSurge: 1
	maxUnavailable: 1

	a4b.amazonaws.com
	access-analyzer.amazonaws.com
	account.amazonaws.com
	acm-pca.amazonaws.com
	acm.amazonaws.com
	airflow-env.amazonaws.com
	airflow.amazonaws.com
	alexa-appkit.amazon.com
	alexa-connectedhome.amazon.com
	amazonmq.amazonaws.com