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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

vLEI ID (A CESR encoded string)

A vLEI ID is just a KERI AID (autonomic identifier) and is encoded as a TLV (type, length, value) CESR encoded string. CESR uses the Base64URLSafe encoding to encode strings. It uses a front-loaded TLV scheme meaning the type codes are at the beginning, not the end.

ED1e8pD24aqd0dCZTQHaGpfcluPFD2ajGIY3ARgE5Yvr

ACDC JSON object (subpart of a CESR stream)

	#
	# First test run (stopped after 23 seconds)
	#

	$ docker-compose run --rm -it bench -c 200 -n 2000 http://keria:3903/health

	# stdout ->
	[+] Creating 1/0
	✔ Container keria-bench-keria-1 Running 0.0s
	This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3 <$Revision: 1826891 $>

	# Cryptographic Salt (seed) generation - kli salt
	kli salt
	# Sample Output ->
	# 0ACrH43dd6hmqrX3-708BFBl

	# Setting of required environment variables for sample commands below
	export WIT_NAME=witness-01
	export WIT_SALT=0ACrH43dd6hmqrX3-708BFBl
	export CONFIG_DIR=$HOME/witnesses/witness-01/
	export CONFIG_FILE=main/sample-witness-config.json