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

Kartones

PSQL

Magic words:

psql -U postgres

Some interesting flags (to see all, use -h or --help depending on your psql version):

• -E: will describe the underlaying queries of the \ commands (cool for learning!)
• -l: psql will list all databases and then exit (useful if the user you connect with doesn't has a default database, like at AWS RDS)

simeji

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"github.com/awslabs/aws-sdk-go/aws"
	"github.com/awslabs/aws-sdk-go/aws/credentials"
	"github.com/awslabs/aws-sdk-go/service/ec2"
)

func main() {

mdwhatcott

package main

import (
	"bytes"
	"encoding/json"
	"fmt"
	"strconv"
)

func main() {

sdieunidou

rabbitmqctl add_user test test
rabbitmqctl set_user_tags test administrator
rabbitmqctl set_permissions -p / test ".*" ".*" ".*"

cestinger

We use hipchat to post messages out of hipchat.  One thing we noticed is that we were consistently getting an error even though messages were posting correctly.  

After a little research, we found that we were getting back a 204 from the api call.  A 204 indicates that the request has been fulfilled and that there is no additional content to send in the response payload body - https://httpstatuses.com/204.

In our case, this is a valid return for this type of traffic - so looking at the hipchat.py script in modules, you can see that a false is purposefully being returned when no content is returned:

    if result.get('status', None) == salt.ext.six.moves.http_client.OK:
        response = hipchat_functions.get(api_version).get(function).get('response')
        return result.get('dict', {}).get(response, None)
    elif result.get('status', None) == salt.ext.six.moves.http_client.NO_CONTENT:

vipmax

Kafka installation with systemd

0. Create kafka user

sudo adduser kafka
sudo adduser kafka sudo
su -l kafka

1. Download and Install kafka archive

joyrexus

collapsible markdown?

CLICK ME

yes, even hidden code blocks!

print("hello world!")

olivere

package main

import (
	"context"
	"encoding/json"
	"fmt"
	"reflect"

	"github.com/olivere/elastic"
)

smford22

/*
This is a test server definition for GCE+Terraform for GH-9564
*/

provider "google" {
  project = "${var.project}" // Your project ID here.
  region  = "${var.region}"
}

resource "google_compute_firewall" "gh-9564-firewall-externalssh" {