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MichaelEvans

Amazon War Story #1: Jeff Bezos

Over the years I watched people give presentations to Jeff Bezos and come back bruised: emotionally, intellectually, often career-ily. If you came back with a nod or a signoff, you were jumping for joy. Presenting to Jeff is a gauntlet that tends to send people back to the cave to lick their wounds and stay out of the sunlight for a while.

I say “presentations” and you probably think PowerPoint, but no: he outlawed PowerPoint there many years ago. It’s not allowed on the campus. If you present to Jeff, you write it as prose.

One day it came time for me to present to Jeff. It felt like... I don’t know, maybe how they swarm around you when you’re going to meet the President. People giving you last-minute advice, wishing you luck, ushering you past regiments of admins and security guards. It’s like you’re in a movie. A gladiator movie.

Fortunately I’d spent years watching Jeff in action before my turn came, and I had prepared in an unusual way. My presentation -- which, roughl

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My Philosophy on Alerting
based my observations while I was a Site Reliability Engineer at Google

Author: Rob Ewaschuk <rob@infinitepigeons.org>

Introduction
Vernacular
Monitor for your users
Cause-based alerts are bad (but sometimes necessary)
Alerting from the spout (or beyond!)

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package com.firebase.client;

import com.firebase.client.core.Constants;
import rx.Observable;
import rx.Subscriber;
import rx.functions.Action0;
import rx.functions.Func1;
import rx.subscriptions.Subscriptions;

public class RxFirebase {

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import rx.Observable;
import rx.Observable.OnSubscribe;
import rx.Subscriber;
import rx.functions.Action1;
import rx.functions.Func1;
import rx.functions.Func2;
import rx.observables.ConnectableObservable;

import java.util.ArrayList;
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