Disclaimer: This piece is written anonymously. The names of a few particular companies are mentioned, but as common examples only.
This is a short write-up on things that I wish I'd known and considered before joining a private company (aka startup, aka unicorn in some cases). I'm not trying to make the case that you should never join a private company, but the power imbalance between founder and employee is extreme, and that potential candidates would
| #!/usr/bin/env ruby | |
| if ARGV.length < 2 | |
| puts "usage: #{$0} databag.json new_encrypted_databag.json [encrypted_data_bag_secret]" | |
| exit(1) | |
| end | |
| databag_file = ARGV[0] | |
| out_file = ARGV[1] | |
| if ARGV.length >= 3 |
| # Installing graphite dependencies | |
| apt-get install -y python2.6 python-pip python-cairo python-django python-django-tagging | |
| apt-get install -y libapache2-mod-wsgi python-twisted python-memcache python-pysqlite2 python-simplejson | |
| pip install whisper | |
| pip install carbon | |
| pip install graphite-web | |
| # Setup a vhost by grabbing the example the graphite team released on their repo. | |
| # In this file, you'll provide the url used to access to your Graphite dashboard | |
| wget https://raw.github.com/tmm1/graphite/master/examples/example-graphite-vhost.conf -O /etc/apache2/sites-available/graphite |
| from time import strftime,gmtime,time | |
| import urllib2 | |
| import hmac | |
| import hashlib | |
| import base64 | |
| import string | |
| def publishAmazonSnsMsg(Subject,TopicArn,Message,AWSAccessKeyId,privatekey): | |
| #http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/2008-01-01/SQSDeveloperGuide/ | |
| amzsnshost = 'sns.us-east-1.amazonaws.com' |