im-knots

SRE Intro Projects

So you want to be an SRE? this doc will help you get there! its a living work in progress ill come back to update from time to time. SRE is not an entry level position but its also not scary!

Basics of Web Development

1. Create a Git repository on Github or elsewhere and clone it. All of your following work must be commited regularly to this repository
2. Create a basic web application using a modern front-end framework (Hint: npx create-react-app). Familiarize yourself with the basics of front-end web development. Learn modern Typescript, props, imports. Create multiple pages, navigation, routers. Style it. Import material-ui components. Become fluent and at ease navigating a modern web app code.
3. Create a REST API using modern backend frameworks (Hint: Flask-Python). Connect your API to an SQL database. Write handlers to CRUD store resources of your choice in a database table. Write a test suite for your API with >90% coverage and be able to quickly run your test suite to va

pydevops

• 0.1. References
• 0.2. Other cheatsheets
• 0.3. Manage multiple gcloud config configurations
  • 0.3.1. Switch gcloud context with gcloud config
• 0.4. Credentials
• 0.5. info
• 0.6. projects
• 0.7. zones & regions
• 0.8. Organization
• 0.9. billing

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