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kislayverma / steve-yegge-google-platform-rant.md
Created December 26, 2019 07:11
A copy (for posterity) of Steve Yegge's internal memo in Google about what platforms are and how Amazon learnt to build them

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 really have SREs and they make engineers pretty much do everything,

@lmakarov
lmakarov / lambda-basic-auth.js
Created August 30, 2017 19:15
Basic HTTP Authentication for CloudFront with Lambda@Edge
'use strict';
exports.handler = (event, context, callback) => {
// Get request and request headers
const request = event.Records[0].cf.request;
const headers = request.headers;
// Configure authentication
const authUser = 'user';
const authPass = 'pass';
@iMilnb
iMilnb / README.md
Last active January 18, 2024 08:08
AWS Terraform configuration: Stream CloudWatch Logs to ElasticSearch

Rationale

This snippet is a sample showing how to implement CloudWatch Logs streaming to ElasticSearch using terraform. I wrote this gist because I didn't found a clear, end-to-end example on how to achieve this task. In particular, I understood the resource "aws_lambda_permission" "cloudwatch_allow" part by reading a couple of bug reports plus this stackoverflow post.

The js file is actually the Lambda function automatically created by AWS when creating this pipeline through the web console. I only added a endpoint variable handling so it is configurable from terraform.

@davidski
davidski / elk-opsworks-stack.json
Created January 3, 2016 19:21
Elasticsearch-Logstash-Kibana Opsworks stack creation via CloudFormation
{
"AWSTemplateFormatVersion": "2010-09-09",
"Description": "Create the ELK OpsWorks Stack.",
"Metadata": {
"AWS::CloudFormation::Interface": {
"ParameterGroups": [{
"Label": { "default": "Network"},
"Parameters": [ "VpcID", "SubnetID", "KeyName" ]
}, {
"Label": { "default": "ELK Config"},