Anwar zianwar

byte-size tuts

by alexander white ©

golang tutorials

Originally posted at http://pastebin.com/BjD84BQ3

Trigger warning: mention of suicidal ideation

tl;dr: I burned out as a developer at Amazon at the end of my second year. I’ve since found a healthy and sustainable work-life balance and enjoy work again. I write this to A) raise awareness, especially for new-hires and their families, and B) help give hope and advice to people going through the same at Amazon or other companies.

Hello, world

There’s been no shortage of anecdotes, opinions, and rebuttals regarding Amazon’s corporate culture as of late. I write this not to capitalize on the latest news-feed fad, but to share what I had already written and promptly deleted. I didn’t think anyone would want to hear my story, but it’s apparent people are going through a similar experience and don’t have a voice.

I’m a Software Development Engineer II at Amazon; SDE II basically means a software developer with at least 2–3 years of industry experience. I started at Amazon as an SDE I.

##Perks of Microsoft

####Salary

Can't go into details, but can't complain at all.

####Health and Wellness Care

Medical and hospitalization: Two choices for medical insurance. Both with no premium but different deductibles.
- The two choices on medical plans are a high-deductible health plan (Microsoft puts a chunk of money into the Health Savings Account for you, which covers most of the deductible) and an HMO.
With the HMO, you pay basically nothing as long as you only go to Group Health doctors. With the high-deductible plan, you're covered under the local Blue Cross provider which means you can go to just about any doctor in the country. For

System Design Cheatsheet

Picking the right architecture = Picking the right battles + Managing trade-offs

Basic Steps

Clarify and agree on the scope of the system

User cases (description of sequences of events that, taken together, lead to a system doing something useful)
- Who is going to use it?
- How are they going to use it?

A curated list of AWS resources to prepare for the AWS Certifications

A curated list of awesome AWS resources you need to prepare for the all 5 AWS Certifications. This gist will include: open source repos, blogs & blogposts, ebooks, PDF, whitepapers, video courses, free lecture, slides, sample test and many other resources.

	/*
	* A quick example of how to use Bluebird and Q to conjure your own promises
	*
	* Everything going on here is explained further in the following video:
	* http://youtu.be/OU7WuVGSuZw?list=PLT-DLWOBKbB4dZ83I_7Ca-sUTvorckG-E
	*
	*/

	// Import node modules
	var Q = require('q');

	# Hello, and welcome to makefile basics.
	#
	# You will learn why `make` is so great, and why, despite its "weird" syntax,
	# it is actually a highly expressive, efficient, and powerful way to build
	# programs.
	#
	# Once you're done here, go to
	# http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html
	# to learn SOOOO much more.

	alias homestead='function __homestead() { (cd ~/Documents/Code/Homestead && vagrant $*); unset -f __homestead; }; __homestead'

	# Usage

	homestead up
	homestead halt

	# etc...

	var app = require('app');
	var Menu = require('menu');
	var Tray = require('tray');

	var appIcon = null;

	app.on('ready', function(){
	// image is null, so image will not be shown in menu bar
	// so click around on the system menu bar to locate the space where the tray icon is
	appIcon = new Tray(null);

	import React from "react";
	import { render } from "react-dom";

	const ParentComponent = React.createClass({
	getDefaultProps: function() {
	console.log("ParentComponent - getDefaultProps");
	},
	getInitialState: function() {
	console.log("ParentComponent - getInitialState");
	return { text: "" };