Shagun Kaushik sigmakappa

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

#MongoDB - Basic Commands

##Saving Data

db  //Tells you the current database

show collections //Shows the collections available in the current db

db.foo.save({_id:1, x:10}) //Save the document into the foo collection

db.bar.save({_id:1, x:10}) //Save the document into the bar collection

	"""
	This is an example on how to reload Flask app in runtime

	It can be useful for the use case where you want to enable/disable blueprints/routes dynamically.

	To run the app:

	> pip install flask & python app.py

	Then test it via curl

	#!/usr/bin/env python3
	#
	# Query AWS Athena using SQL
	# Copyright (c) Alexey Baikov <sysboss[at]mail.ru>
	#
	# This snippet is a basic example to query Athen and load the results
	# to a variable.
	#
	# Requirements:
	# > pip3 install boto3 botocore retrying