Corey Quinn

The cloud wars are getting a lot more interesting this week. A Cloud Guru’s senior director of content and community, AWS Serverless Hero, and friend of this newsletter (“Aaaah! DON’T CALL ME THAT! DON’T EVER CALL ME THAT!”) Forrest Brazeal has announced that he’s accepted a role as Google Cloud’s head of content. This has […]

If you’ve taken the Cloud Resume Challenge, it’s reasonable to assume that you’re looking to start a career in the world of cloud computing. Congratulations or condolences, to your preference. There’s a good chance that in hopes of snaring your next great job, you’ve built a portfolio website on top of AWS to show off […]

Not all cloud customers are the same, but there seems to be a lack of awareness of this in the industry. Let me sketch out two customer personas for you. Customer A is a SaaS company. They run their environment on the cloud in some way: Perhaps it’s all-in-on one provider, perhaps it’s multi-cloud (which […]

As far as conferences go, AWS re:Invent is certainly notable. It’s the absolute center of the Cloud World for a week each year in Las Vegas. But given the physical and virtual split for this year’s conference, I started mulling over: What is re:Invent at its heart? AWS calls re:Invent an “educational conference.” Given how […]

The biggest mistakes we ever find in software are written by the worst developer imaginable: the past version of yourself. “If I’d known then what I know now, I’d have built that thing completely differently” is a common refrain, and not just for individual coders. So it goes for cloud providers, who are forced to […]

Be wary of the ways Amazon is running its retail business; it’s starting to leach into AWS.

There’s a universal lie that technical people believe across the board. It goes something like this: “After this next sprint ends, then we’re going to pay off all of our technical debt and start doing everything the right way.”

I’m afraid I come to you this morning with terrible news: I’ve been writing code again.

I once said that AWS has launched so many services that I could talk about a service that didn’t really exist and not get called out for it–by AWS employees. Sure enough, last week saw the rise of AWS Infinidash, an imaginary AWS service that doesn’t (at the time of this writing) really exist.

Back in March, I took the beta AWS Certified Sysops Administrator – Associate exam because my Certified Cloud Practitioner was expiring.

There’s a joke that I’ve always been partial to: a software engineering type rubs a lamp and a genie appears. The genie says that he’ll grant the engineer $1 billion, but only if they can spend $100 million in a single month with three rules. “You can’t gift it away. You can’t gamble with it. […]

A couple of weeks ago, a blog post from Andreesen Horowitz talked about “The Cost of Cloud, a Trillion Dollar Paradox.”