chitchcock

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

samalba

package main

import (
  "fmt"
  "testing"
)

func assertEqual(t *testing.T, a interface{}, b interface{}, message string) {
  if a == b {
    return

DanielMuller

#!/bin/bash

# Allows to attach and remove EBS volumes managed under LVM to
# have a dynamically sized partition attached to an EC2 instance
#
# Intance needs either to be launched with a role able to access to relevant AWS API endpoints
# or the credentials can be hardcoded in the config.
#
# Minimal IAM Role:
# {

douglascorrea

sudo yum install openssl openssl-devel
sudo yum groupinstall "Development Tools"

sudo yum install git-core
git clone [email protected]:nodejs/node.git

cd node
./configure
make

dlai0001

############################################################################################## 
# Powershell script for installing Selenium Grid Extras in Hub Mode
# Navigate with internet explorer to:
# http://boxstarter.org/package/nr/url? + raw gist url
#
##############################################################################################

# Boxstarter options
$Boxstarter.RebootOk=$true # Allow reboots?
$Boxstarter.NoPassword=$false # Is this a machine with no login password?

chrismdp

# You don't need Fog in Ruby or some other library to upload to S3 -- shell works perfectly fine
# This is how I upload my new Sol Trader builds (http://soltrader.net)
# Based on a modified script from here: http://tmont.com/blargh/2014/1/uploading-to-s3-in-bash

S3KEY="my aws key"
S3SECRET="my aws secret" # pass these in

function putS3
{
  path=$1

mirajavora

{
  "AWSTemplateFormatVersion" : "2010-09-09",

  "Description" : "Creates auto scaling Elastic Search Cluster",

  "Parameters" : {
    "InstanceType" : {
      "Description" : "Elastic Search node instance type",
      "Type" : "String",
      "Default" : "t2.small",

santisbon

Updating a feature branch

First we'll update your local master branch. Go to your local project and check out the branch you want to merge into (your local master branch)

$ git checkout master

Fetch the remote, bringing the branches and their commits from the remote repository. You can use the -p, --prune option to delete any remote-tracking references that no longer exist in the remote. Commits to master will be stored in a local branch, remotes/origin/master.

vcastellm

#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -e

function usage() {
    set -e
    cat <<EOM
    ##### ecs-run #####
    Simple script for running tasks on Amazon Elastic Container Service
    One of the following is required:
    Required arguments:

ahume

service: inventory-service
description: gRPC service for querying and updating data from the core inventory.
visibility: cluster
documentation: https://docs.google.com/12345
codeRepository: https://github.com/BrandwatchLtd/inventory-service

deploy:
  cluster: prod-maurice-aws
  namespace: default
  restartPods: true