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How to negotiate.

When you reboot your EC2 instance, that VM is provisioned on a (patched) system.

The AWS EC2 Systems Manager Service and the Parameter store: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/systems-manager/parameter-store/ is a great way to store secrets with integrated encryption provided by KMS.

I recently interviewed and accepted a position at Amazon. Prior to the interview the recruiters did a great job of preparing me for what to expect. My direct manager was also part of the interview team, so I got to meet them. Overall it was a very pleasant experience, which is part of the reason I decided to join.

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This was my question as well. How do you not notice 100's of qps from the same IP, and then go on to say, he was betting $8k/second. server logs, and basic networking chomps seems like it would have found this much quicker.

In the Orthodox Jewish world, many women wear sheitels, essentially wigs sourced from human hair. The entire buying experience is very different from what Ben describes in his blog. The women who sell the sheitels provide the whole experience, from picking out the hair type/color/length, etc, to making sure it fits well and that the customer is satisfied. Granted this is a much smaller and niche market, and the products (sheitels) themselves can easily sell for $1,000-$2,000+. (source, my wife regularly wears a Sheitel in accordance with Halacha).

This is what I have wondered for a long time.

I'm really sorry about your experiences as an engineer in LA. I also live in LA and as a sysadmin/network engineer my experiences have been completely different. There are some great companies in LA that do pay well, maybe not as high as in the bay area, but if you're a capable engineer you shouldn't have any problems getting a well paying stable engineering job.

Yes, there is a concern in getting a bad batch, or having several drives fail all at once. Interestingly enough, while opening those 1450 anti-static cases and seeing the manufacture date of them, they were in separate batches (some with more dust on the cases than others), so we have some heterogeneous-ness on them. HDFS with its various levels of replication factors, and our backups/DR for high-value data takes care of the rest.

Whatever happened to the old unix philosophies of KISS, and if it isn't broken, don't fix it. Granted, as many other have pointed out, SysVinit definitely has its pain points and could use improvements, but there are some other init systems people can use without having systemd shoved down our throats. It's been a while since I've played with *BSD, but it might be the time to start seriously looking at it again. Or switch to slack/debian and keep my old-fashioned init system.

I really want to applaud backblaze for publishing these reports and stats. Too many companies closely guard this information that really helps the larger community. Based on the previous blogs from backblaze, when I built out our new hadoop cluster, I purchased 1450 Hitachi drives. I plan to gather our failure rates and publish them as backblaze does. Thanks for blazing the path!