Weekly random links [35/52] 2019


What's your salary expectation?


Sherri Thomas - Hiring Managers want to know if they can afford you so you will need to answer this question and know your worth.  I agree with other coaches who have responded about doing your research to know what similar jobs are paying in the same city.  Be sure to research job roles (i.e. skills and responsibilities) vs. researching job titles since a Director level job in a Fortune 100 company has vastly different roles and responsibilities than a Director at a small company. 

Allow the interviewer to make the 1st move and inquire about your salary requirements.  

Finally, when answering this question say something like, "I was going to ask you what is budgeted for this position?" This allows the Hiring Manager to set the baseline. If the salary range is low but you REALLY want the job, then say what your salary range target is and that you will choose a job offer based on job growth and challenge.  If they really want you, they will try to increase the salary. #YouAsked   

Weekly random links [34/52] 2019


Elastic Load Balancing RFC 2616 HTTP Header Update Tools

Recent AWS update for Classic ELBs

In an effort to better conform to RFC2616, AWS is modifying the default request header processing of our Layer-7 Amazon Classic Load Balancers to match the behavior of the Application Load Balancers. This document provides details of the change as well as instructions about how to use the included tools to check a HTTP server's behavior and change a load balancer's behavior. This behavior can be enabled or disabled on any Classic Load Balancer using the AWS ELB API, and the script included with this document allows you to check or set desired behavior.

Seems that someone was in a rush to release this update. Lots of errors and typos on the instructions and scripts:
  • ❌  Exepected pattern 200 OK not found in response
  • The script requires the AWS CLI to be installed and configured for access to your account, and
  • requires the Bash environment to execute in. (then #!/bin/sh on the script)

https://aws-elb-files.s3.amazonaws.com/CLB-RFC2616-update-2019-08-12.zip

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