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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

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$ docker export $(docker ps -lq) | tar tf - | egrep config
usr/sbin/tzconfig
usr/share/man/man5/config.5ssl.gz
usr/share/man/man5/x509v3_config.5ssl.gz

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###################################################
##
## Alertmanager YAML configuration for routing.
##
## Will route alerts with a code_owner label to the slack-code-owners receiver 
## configured above, but will continue processing them to send to both a
## central Slack channel (slack-monitoring) and PagerDuty receivers
## (pd-warning and pd-critical)
##

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require 'socket'

listen_socket = TCPServer.new('127.0.0.1', 9292)

client_conn = listen_socket.accept
request_line = client_conn.gets

while(line = client_conn.gets) do
  break unless line.include?(':')
end

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#!/bin/sh
# ./docker-copy a25dae391089 /bin/prometheus ./

id=$(docker create $1)
docker cp $id:$2 $3
docker rm -v $id

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set height 0

catch syscall close
catch syscall read
catch syscall lseek
disable 1 2

commands 2
 disable 1 2
 continue

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#!/bin/bash

set -x
set -e

project="XXX"
prefix="http"

metrics=$(
  curl \

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 command:
    - /bin/sh
    - -c
    - |
      cat << EOF > blackbox.yml && /bin/blackbox_exporter --config.file=blackbox.yml
        modules:
          http_2xx:
            prober: http
            http:
              tls_config:

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#!/bin/sh

# cat /etc/os-release 
# NAME="Amazon Linux"
# ...

sudo yum -y install git docker htop tree golang ruby

sudo systemctl enable docker