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

rgreenjr

-- show running queries (pre 9.2)
SELECT procpid, age(clock_timestamp(), query_start), usename, current_query 
FROM pg_stat_activity 
WHERE current_query != '<IDLE>' AND current_query NOT ILIKE '%pg_stat_activity%' 
ORDER BY query_start desc;

-- show running queries (9.2)
SELECT pid, age(clock_timestamp(), query_start), usename, query 
FROM pg_stat_activity 
WHERE query != '<IDLE>' AND query NOT ILIKE '%pg_stat_activity%' 

leonardofed

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.

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olivertappin

# Please note, the commands below will create unreadable files and should be 
# used for testing file size only. If you're looking for something that has
# lines in it, use /dev/urandom instead of /dev/zero. You'll then be able to
# read the number of lines in that file using `wc -l large-file.1mb.txt`

# Create a 1MB file
dd if=/dev/zero of=large-file-1mb.txt count=1024 bs=1024

# Create a 10MB file
dd if=/dev/zero of=large-file-10mb.txt count=1024 bs=10240

tallclair

apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
kind: PodSecurityPolicy
metadata:
  name: restricted
  annotations:
    seccomp.security.alpha.kubernetes.io/allowedProfileNames: 'docker/default'
    apparmor.security.beta.kubernetes.io/allowedProfileNames: 'runtime/default'
    seccomp.security.alpha.kubernetes.io/defaultProfileName:  'docker/default'
    apparmor.security.beta.kubernetes.io/defaultProfileName:  'runtime/default'
spec:

stevenringo

| Title | Description

jjo

#!/bin/sh
# Launch a Pod ab-using a privileged=true to land on a Kubernetes node cluster as root,
# uses `privileged: true` to then nsenter init mount its (root) namespace,
# hostPID and hostNetwork already set for the Pod.
node=${1}
case "${node}" in
"")
    nodeSelector=''
    podName=${USER+${USER}-}sudo-any
    ;;

etiennetremel

#!/bin/bash
#
# Create Kubernetes user. Require cfssl.
#
# Usage:
#   ./create-user.sh <kubernetes api host> <fulle name> <clusterrole>
#
# Example:
#   ./create-user.sh k8s-api.my-domain.com "Jane Doe" my-project:admin

strongjz

Tools

• Kops https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/blob/master/docs/README.md
• Kubectl https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/tools/install-kubectl/
• kubespy https://blog.pulumi.com/kubespy-trace-a-real-time-view-into-the-heart-of-a-kubernetes-service
• kops https://icicimov.github.io/blog/virtualization/Kubernetes-Cluster-in-AWS-with-Kops/

Presentations

benc-uk

Official Exam Links & Resources

• Main certification landing page
• Handbook
• Importannt Tips
• CKAD FAQ

The Exam Itself

• CNCF Training Portal
• System Checker