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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

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	Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)
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	L1 cache reference 0.5 ns
	Branch mispredict 5 ns
	L2 cache reference 7 ns 14x L1 cache
	Mutex lock/unlock 25 ns
	Main memory reference 100 ns 20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache
	Compress 1K bytes with Zippy 3,000 ns 3 us
	Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network 10,000 ns 10 us
	Read 4K randomly from SSD* 150,000 ns 150 us ~1GB/sec SSD

	#!/bin/sh

	###
	# SOME COMMANDS WILL NOT WORK ON macOS (Sierra or newer)
	# For Sierra or newer, see https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.macos
	###

	# Alot of these configs have been taken from the various places
	# on the web, most from here
	# https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/5b3c8418ed42d93af2e647dc9d122f25cc034871/.osx

	#!/usr/bin/env python

	"""Simple HTTP Server With Upload.

	This module builds on BaseHTTPServer by implementing the standard GET
	and HEAD requests in a fairly straightforward manner.

	"""

	#include <stdio.h>
	#include <stdlib.h>
	#include <assert.h>

	typedef unsigned int u32;
	typedef unsigned long long u64;

	//-------------------------------------------------------------------------
	// WorkArea
	//-------------------------------------------------------------------------

	from multiprocessing.process import Process
	import time
	import redis

	def pub(myredis):
	for n in range(10):
	myredis.publish('channel','blah %d' % n)
	time.sleep(5)

	def sub(myredis, name):

	zmq = require("zmq")
	fs = require("fs")

	var config = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(process.argv[2]))

	var connexion = "tcp://"+config.ip+":"
	var shell_conn = connexion+config.shell_port
	var pub_conn = connexion+config.iopub_port
	var hb_conn = connexion+config.hb_port

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