Karthik Sirasanagandla karthiks

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

	apachectl -M \| grep evasive
	# Output:
	# [Mon Jan 27 13:55:35.707317 2020] [so:warn] [pid 29031] AH01574: module dav_module is already loaded, skipping
	# evasive20_module (shared)

	logging:
	receivers:
	mywebserver:
	type: files
	include_paths:
	- /var/log/apache*/access.log
	- /var/log/apache*/error.log
	- /var/www/logs/any-other-custom-logs-of-your-app-*.log
	service:
	pipelines:

	<VirtualHost *:80>
	ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
	DocumentRoot /var/www/html
	ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
	CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
	RewriteEngine on
	RewriteMap hosts-deny "txt:/etc/apache2/blacklist"
	RewriteCond "${hosts-deny:%{REMOTE_ADDR}\|NOT-FOUND}" "!=NOT-FOUND" [OR]
	RewriteCond "${hosts-deny:%{REMOTE_HOST}\|NOT-FOUND}" "!=NOT-FOUND"
	RewriteRule .* - [F]

	RewriteEngine on
	RewriteMap hosts-deny "txt:/etc/apache2/blacklist"
	RewriteCond "${hosts-deny:%{REMOTE_ADDR}\|NOT-FOUND}" "!=NOT-FOUND" [OR]
	RewriteCond "${hosts-deny:%{REMOTE_HOST}\|NOT-FOUND}" "!=NOT-FOUND"
	RewriteRule .* - [F]

	/var/log/nginx/*.log {
	daily
	missingok
	rotate 14
	compress
	delaycompress
	notifempty
	create 0640 www-data adm
	sharedscripts
	prerotate

	SetEnvIf Remote_Addr "::1" loopback
	SetEnvIf Remote_Addr "127\.0\.0\.1" loopback
	CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined env=!loopback

	# Know the id of the username in the original distro that was exported
	wsl -d Ubuntu-20.04 -u kartz -e id -u
	# Outputs 1000

	# Knowing the id of the username in the distro that was created by importing the tar image
	wsl -d Ubuntu-20 -u kartz -e id -u
	# Outputs 1000

	# I would want to use this distroname and id, to set this user as the default login profile of WSL.
	# I set this up in Windows Registry with the line snippet below:

	71.119.54.101 -
	52.123.54.102 -