Keeping up with AWS announcements is like drinking from a firehose.
The signal to noise ratio is abysmal. We filter through it all to find the hidden gems, the community contributions-the stuff worth reading! Then we summarize it with snark and share it with you – minus the nonsense.
The Podcasts
The AWS morning show you never knew you wanted, three days a week.
Spend 15 to 20 minutes of your commute listening to host Corey Quinn contextualize and poke fun at the latest in AWS news, dive into popular AWS services, and answer listener questions on AWS architecture.
Insightful conversation. Less Snark.
Every Wednesday, listen to host Corey Quinn interview domain experts in the world of Cloud Computing discuss AWS, GCP, Azure, Oracle Cloud, and why businesses are coming to think about the Cloud.
Nobody Cares About the Operating System Anymore
Once upon a time when I was a fledgling Linux systems administrator, the distribution you used Really Mattered. You used Gentoo or similar if you didn’t value your time, you used Ubuntu (once it came out) if you valued community, you went with Debian if you enjoyed having the crap kicked out of you in […]
You Can’t Trust Amazon When It Feels Threatened
Last week, someone behind the @AmazonNews Twitter account took a fistful of pills, washed them down with a handle of Old Grand-Dad, and started tweeting. They picked fights with Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. They also argued with Wisconsin’s congressional Representative Mark Pocan. And while all of this is embarrassing and highly cringey, my problem […]
Sell Me an AWS Service, but Crappier
A recurring theme has arisen recently: I find myself wishing for a version of an AWS service that charged me less in return for being actively worse at what it did. This isn’t me hoping for a Chaos Engineering region that breaks intentionally so I can shore up my application’s durability. Instead, it’s me wishing […]
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