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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

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crmsh # crm configure show
pcs   # pcs cluster cib

Display the current status

crmsh # crm_mon -1
pcs   # pcs status

	### INSTALLATION NOTES ###
	# 1. Install Homebrew (https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew)
	# 2. brew install zsh
	# 3. Install OhMyZsh (https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh)
	# 4. brew install reattach-to-user-namespace --wrap-pbcopy-pbpaste && brew link reattach-to-user-namespace
	# 5. Install iTerm2
	# 6. In iTerm2 preferences for your profile set:
	# Character Encoding: Unicode (UTF-8)
	# Report Terminal Type: xterm-256color
	# 7. Put itunesartist and itunestrack into PATH

	Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)
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	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

	###########################################
	# IMPORTANT NOTE:
	#
	# As of asuswrt-merlin 380.67 Beta, you
	# can now configure SSL certificates from
	# the Webui, making these instructions
	# unnecessary.
	###########################################

	#!/usr/bin/ruby
	# Create display override file to force Mac OS X to use RGB mode for Display
	# see http://embdev.net/topic/284710

	require 'base64'

	data=`ioreg -l -d0 -w 0 -r -c AppleDisplay`

	edids=data.scan(/IODisplayEDID.*?<([a-z0-9]+)>/i).flatten
	vendorids=data.scan(/DisplayVendorID.*?([0-9]+)/i).flatten


	sudo apt-get install qemu-utils
	sudo modprobe nbd

	sudo qemu-nbd --connect=/dev/nbd0 /full/path/to/qcow2/image/file

	sudo mkdir /mnt/ubuntu

	sudo mount /dev/nbd0p1 /mnt/ubuntu

	#Source - http://www.haproxy.org/download/1.5/doc/configuration.txt
	# Section - 9.2. Unix Socket commands

	#show stat [<iid> <type> <sid>]
	# Dump statistics in the CSV format. By passing <id>, <type> and <sid>, it is
	# possible to dump only selected items :
	# - <iid> is a proxy ID, -1 to dump everything
	# - <type> selects the type of dumpable objects : 1 for frontends, 2 for
	# backends, 4 for servers, -1 for everything. These values can be ORed,
	# for example:

	function drips(){
	docker ps -q \| xargs -n 1 docker inspect --format '{{ .NetworkSettings.IPAddress }} {{ .Name }}' \| sed 's/ \// /'
	}