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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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## Alertmanager YAML configuration for routing.
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## 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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1. go to http://dl.hhvm.com/ubuntu/pool/main/h/hhvm/ and right click and copy the link to the version of hhvm you want to rollback to
2. sudo apt-get autoremove hhvm -y
3. wget <link you just copied>
4. sudo dpkg -i <name of file u just downloaded>
5. apt-get install -f
6. service hhvm start

Edit: Don't worry when it errors out on step 4. that is expected. just continue to step 5. 

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#!/usr/bin/env ruby
#
# Syncs Ruby binstubs for ruby-communal-gems.
# Run this everytime you install a new Ruby, or when you install a new gem
# with a bin/ command. (ie, when you typically do rbenv rehash)
#
# See: https://github.com/tpope/rbenv-communal-gems/issues/5
#
require 'fileutils'

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# Twilio HTTP HAProxy Configuration 
# Version: 0.1

global
        daemon
        log 127.0.0.1 local0 info
        maxconn 60000
        spread-checks 3

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Running redis using upstart on Ubuntu

I've been trying to understand how to setup systems from the ground up on Ubuntu. I just installed redis onto the box and here's how I did it and some things to look out for.

To install:

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#!/usr/bin/env sh

##
# This is script with usefull tips taken from:
#   https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.osx
#
# install it:
#   curl -sL https://raw.github.com/gist/2108403/hack.sh | sh
#