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Comment · 10 years ago
Comment · 10 years ago
It's notoriously hard to hire for. They cherrypick devs that are 85-99%[0] of the way to passing the Google SWE hiring bar, who in addition have ops experience.
The Google SRE head honcho says: [1]
>Fundamentally, it’s what happens when you ask a software engineer to design an operations function.
So I think the short answer to your question is yes, they hire software devs and train them [2], but require them to already have some ops/Linux internals knowledge.
[0]: SRE Book
[1]: https://landing.google.com/sre/interview/ben-treynor.html
[2]: https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon15/program/presentat...
Comment · 10 years ago
I've been seeing a lot of references to SRE recently. Is Google trying to market this position and acquire more engineers?
The SRE book, and Google in general, have mentioned that SREs are notoriously hard to hire, and I'm wondering if they are doing a marketing push.
Comment · 10 years ago
A really cool idea. Is this more or less how rootkits work and hide themselves? A system call is made to list the contents of a directory, and the rootkit excludes itself from that listing?
Comment · 11 years ago
>bonus points goes to the people who realise there is an odd thing about the form of the baz (branch if Ra is zero) instruction.
Is this because the second argument is another register (presumably containing an address to branch to) instead of a label?
Comment · 11 years ago
Keep in mind that OTA television is using MPEG-2 instead of the more advanced H.264 video codec - roughly double the bitrate for the same quality.
As well, OTA is somewhat inefficient with duplicated frames, as all 1080i content is broadcast at 1080i60, whereas Netflix can encode content to the original frame rate (i.e. 1080p24).
[0]: http://i.imgur.com/jvExNWT.png