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After 20 years, and 3283 posts including as much as 1,577,106 phrases I’m wrapping up my time because the lead blogger on the AWS Information Weblog.
It has been a privilege to have the ability to “stay sooner or later” and to get to study and write about so a lot of our improvements over the past 20 years: message queuing, storage, on-demand computing, serverless, and quantum computing to call only a few and to depart many others out. It has additionally been a privilege to have the ability to meet and to listen to from so a lot of you which have faithfully learn and (hopefully) discovered from my content material over time. I treasure these interactions and your type phrases, and I hold each in thoughts after I write.
Subsequent for Jeff
I started my profession as a builder. Over time I’ve written tens of 1000’s of traces of meeting code (6502, Z80, and 68000), Visible Primary, and PHP, together with lots of of 1000’s of traces of C. Nonetheless, over time I’ve progressively spent much less time constructing and extra time speaking about constructing. As every new service and have whizzed previous my eyes I’d memory about days and many years previous, after I might really use these goodies to create one thing cool. I went from being a developer who might market, to a marketer who used to have the ability to develop. There’s completely nothing incorrect with that, however I wish to construct. The medium could possibly be code, 3D printing, LEGO bricks, electronics elements, and even cardboard –creating and innovating is what motivates and sustains me.
With that as my driving power, my aim for the subsequent step of my profession at AWS is to speculate extra time centered on studying and utilizing fewer issues, constructing cool stuff, and creating recent, developer-focused content material as I achieve this. I’m nonetheless working to determine the shape that this may take, so keep tuned. I’m additionally going to proceed to make my weekly appearances at AWS OnAir (our Friday Twitch present), and I’ll proceed to talk at AWS neighborhood occasions across the globe.
Subsequent for the Weblog
As for the AWS Information Weblog, it has lengthy been backed by an superior group, each seen and invisible. Right here we’re on the latest AWS re:Invent celebration of the weblog’s twentieth anniversary (picture courtesy of Liz Fuentes with edits by Channy Yun so as to add those that have been in any other case occupied):
Through the celebration I advised the group that I stay up for celebrating the 30 yr anniversary with them at re:Invent 2034.
Going ahead, the group will proceed to develop and the aim stays the identical: to offer our clients with rigorously chosen, high-quality details about the newest and most significant AWS launches. The weblog is in nice palms and this group will proceed to maintain you knowledgeable even because the AWS tempo of innovation continues to speed up.
Thanks Once more
As soon as once more I have to thank all of you for the very type phrases and gestures over time. As soon as in your life, for those who work arduous and get actually fortunate, you get a singular alternative to do one thing that actually and really issues to individuals. And I’ve been fortunate.
— Jeff;
