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

jroper

package com.gwtplatform.mvp.client.proxy;

import com.google.gwt.event.logical.shared.ValueChangeEvent;
import com.google.gwt.user.client.Window;
import com.google.inject.Inject;
import com.google.inject.Singleton;
import com.google.web.bindery.event.shared.EventBus;

@Singleton
public class Html5PushStatePlaceManager extends PlaceManagerImpl {

codeinthehole

#!/usr/bin/env bash
#
# Get the value of a tag for a running EC2 instance.
#
# This can be useful within bootstrapping scripts ("user-data").
#
# Note the EC3 instance needs to have an IAM role that lets it read tags. The policy
# JSON for this looks like:
#
#    {

timbutler

FORTIDATE %{YEAR:year}\-%{MONTHNUM:month}\-%{MONTHDAY:day}
FORTIGATE_52BASE <%{NUMBER:syslog_index}>date=%{FORTIDATE:date} time=%{TIME:time} devname=%{HOST:hostname} devid=%{HOST:devid} logid=%{NUMBER:logid} type=%{WORD:type} subtype=%{WORD:subtype} eventtype=%{WORD:eventtype} level=%{WORD:level} vd=\"%{WORD:vdom}\"
FORTIGATE_52BASEV2 <%{NUMBER:syslog_index}>date=%{FORTIDATE:date} time=%{TIME:time} devname=%{HOST:hostname} devid=%{HOST:devid} logid=%{NUMBER:logid} type=%{WORD:type} subtype=%{WORD:subtype} level=%{WORD:level} vd=\"%{WORD:vdom}\"
FORTIGATE_52IPS severity=%{WORD:severity} srcip=%{IP:srcip} dstip=%{IP:dstip} sessionid=%{NUMBER:sessionid} action=%{DATA:action} proto=%{NUMBER:proto} service=%{DATA:service} attack="%{DATA:attack}" srcport=%{NUMBER:srcport} dstport=%{NUMBER:dstport} direction=%{NUMBER:direction} attackid=%{NUMBER:attackid} profile=\"%{DATA:profile}\" ref=\"%{DATA:ref}\";? incidentserialno=%{NUMBER:incidentserialno} msg=\"%{GREEDYDATA:msg}\"
FORTIGATE_52DOS severity=%{WORD:severity} s

jedvardsson

public interface LabeledEnum {
    String getLabel();
}

thapakazi

Agenda

To automate the autoscaling launch config generation process.

if its boring with 🐁 clicks and uis, lets automate it with ⌨ --randomthought

Conventions/Assumptions

loganvolkers

Custom format for displaying bytes as kb, mb, gb or tb.

Response to a few places on the internet: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/docs/x_T_N-yRUYg And here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1533811/how-can-i-format-bytes-a-cell-in-excel-as-kb-mb-gb-etc

Here is one that I have been using:

[<1000000]0.00," KB";[<1000000000]0.00,," MB";0.00,,," GB"