Sarah Collison S-Collison

Rust in Large Organizations

Initially taken by Niko Matsakis and lightly edited by Ryan Levick

Agenda

Introductions
Cargo inside large build systems
FFI
Foundations and financial support

CloudFormation -> Terraform Import Helpers

I wrote these scripts to help faciliate batch import of our CloudFormation templates into Terraform Configuration.

region-batch.sh

This script is a light wrapper around batch.sh. It simply iterates over the list of regions provided, exports expected variables, creates required directories, and calls batch.sh.

BASE_DIR=/path/to/dir EXCLUDE_REGEX="(some-stack-production|some-stack-staging)" ./region-batch.sh us-east-1 us-west-1

ABOUT

about:config settings to harden the Firefox browser. Privacy and performance enhancements.
To change these settings type 'about:config' in the url bar. Then search the setting you would like to change and modify the value. Some settings may break certain websites from functioning and rendering normally. Some settings may also make firefox unstable. I am not liable for any damages/loss of data.

Not all these changes are necessary and will be dependent upon your usage and hardware. Do some research on settings if you don't understand what they do. These settings are best combined with your standard privacy extensions (~~HTTPS Everywhere~~ No longer required: Enable HTTPS-Only Mode, NoScript/Request Policy, uBlock origin, agent spoofing, ~~Privacy Badger~~ etc), and all plugins set to "Ask To Activate".

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

	#!/usr/bin/env bash
	set -e

	# Formats any *.tf files according to the hashicorp convention
	files=$(git diff --cached --name-only)
	for f in $files
	do
	if [ -e "$f" ] && [[ $f == *.tf ]]; then
	#terraform validate `dirname $f`
	terraform fmt $f