joshxyzhimself

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

joshxyzhimself

HAProxy and Let's Encrypt

HAProxy is a open-source TCP/HTTP load-balancing proxy server supporting native SSL, keep-alive, compression CLI, and other modern features.

Let’s Encrypt is a free, automated, and open certificate authority (CA), run for the public’s benefit. Let’s Encrypt is a service provided by the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG).

Concept

joshxyzhimself

MicroService Proxy Gateway Solutions

Kong, Traefik, Caddy, Linkerd, Fabio, Vulcand, and Netflix Zuul seem to be the most common in microservice proxy/gateway solutions. Kubernetes Ingress is often a simple Ngnix, which is difficult to separate the popularity from other things.

Github Star Trend:

This is just a picture of this link from March 2, 2019

Originally, I had included some other solution

joshxyzhimself

Use the Android Gradle Plugin offline

This document describes how to use Android Studio with downloads of offline Android Gradle plugin and Google Maven repository dependencies.

Download and unzip offline components

If you haven’t already done so, download the offline components from the official Android Studio website: https://d.android.com/r/studio-offline/downloads .

joshxyzhimself

brew install caddy mkcert nss dnsmasq

mkcert -install

mkcert '*.app.test' '*.cdn.test'

# rename the certs and move them under /usr/local/etc/caddy/certs

cat <<EOF > /usr/local/etc/caddy/Caddyfile
*.app.test:443, *.cdn.test:443 {

joshxyzhimself

Unofficial Bash Strict Mode

Sometimes a programming language has a "strict mode" to restrict unsafe constructs. E.g., Perl has use strict, Javascript has "use strict", and Visual Basic has Option Strict. But what about bash? Well, bash doesn't have a strict mode as such, but it does have an unofficial strict mode:

set -euo pipefail

set -e

joshxyzhimself

Doxbee sequential
benchmarking ./doxbee-sequential/async-bluebird.js
{"time":428,"mem":60.38671875,"errors":0,"lastErr":null}
benchmarking ./doxbee-sequential/async-es2017-native.js
{"time":591,"mem":98.82421875,"errors":0,"lastErr":null}
benchmarking ./doxbee-sequential/async-es2017-util.promisify.js
{"time":479,"mem":69.7734375,"errors":0,"lastErr":null}
benchmarking ./doxbee-sequential/callbacks-baseline.js
{"time":149,"mem":29.99609375,"errors":0,"lastErr":null}

joshxyzhimself

// JSON to Uint8Array parsing and visa versa
// (Intended Bluetooth communication on Cordova)

var JsonToArray = function(json)
{
	var str = JSON.stringify(json, null, 0);
	var ret = new Uint8Array(str.length);
	for (var i = 0; i < str.length; i++) {
		ret[i] = str.charCodeAt(i);
	}

joshxyzhimself

#
# This is the ultimate HAProxy 2.0 "Getting Started" config
# It demonstrates many of the features available which are now available 
# While you may not need all of these things, this can serve
# as a reference for your own configurations.
#
# Have questions?  Check out our community Slack:
# https://slack.haproxy.org/
#

joshxyzhimself

let fnGetFileNameFromContentDispostionHeader = function (header) {
    let contentDispostion = header.split(';');
    const fileNameToken = `filename*=UTF-8''`;

    let fileName = 'downloaded.pdf';
    for (let thisValue of contentDispostion) {
        if (thisValue.trim().indexOf(fileNameToken) === 0) {
            fileName = decodeURIComponent(thisValue.trim().replace(fileNameToken, ''));
            break;
        }