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afternoon / elb-sg-config.yaml
Created April 14, 2013 20:34
Security group and load balancer config file for Elastic Beanstalk. See http://tmblr.co/ZU9VxvibvDWI.
# vim: ft=yaml
# Elastic Load Balancer and Security Group configuration for the app
#
# - Allow anyone to connect to port 443 and office traffic to connect to
# port 22
# - Ensure all traffic is encrypted by configuring load balancer to listen on
# 443 and direct traffic to port 443 on app servers
# - Enable cookie-based session stickiness
# - Use /status for health check
# - Enable backend authentication policy by providing public key for cert
<string>(?:^\s+)?(&lt;)((?i:script))\b(?![^&gt;]*/&gt;)</string>
=>
<string>(?:^\s+)?(&lt;)((?i:script))\b(?!([^&gt;]*text/template[^&gt;]*|[^&gt;]*/>))</string>
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chitchcock / 20111011_SteveYeggeGooglePlatformRant.md
Created October 12, 2011 15:53
Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

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