Oleg Atamanenko uthark

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

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	kind: Pod
	metadata:
	name: pihole
	# namespace: pihole
	spec:
	hostNetwork: true
	dnsPolicy: "None"
	dnsConfig:
	nameservers:

	lifecycle:
	preStop: # taint node before stop.
	exec:
	command:
	- /bin/sh
	- -c
	- /usr/bin/lifecycle_hook.sh preStop
	postStart: # untaint node after start.
	exec:
	command:

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

	# Helper script to automatically taint/untaint node based on CNI condition.
	# Used as a lifecycle hook for CNI Deployment.
	# Tainting helps to prevent FailedCreatePodSandbox issue caused by long CNI Plugin startup/restart
	# when there are pods scheduled on the nodes which doesn't have IP addresses assigned yet.

	# Expected environment variables:
	# MY_NODE_NAME - Name of the node.

	Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)
	----------------------------------
	L1 cache reference 0.5 ns
	Branch mispredict 5 ns
	L2 cache reference 7 ns 14x L1 cache
	Mutex lock/unlock 25 ns
	Main memory reference 100 ns 20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache
	Compress 1K bytes with Zippy 3,000 ns 3 us
	Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network 10,000 ns 10 us
	Read 4K randomly from SSD* 150,000 ns 150 us ~1GB/sec SSD

	---
	apiVersion: networking.istio.io/v1alpha3
	kind: Gateway
	metadata:
	name: website-gateway
	spec:
	selector:
	# Which pods we want to expose as Istio router
	# This label points to the default one installed from file istio-demo.yaml
	istio: ingressgateway

	apiVersion: apps/v1beta1
	kind: Deployment
	metadata:
	name: web-v1
	namespace: default
	spec:
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	template:
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	labels: