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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 go away 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) realized from my content material through the years. 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 strains of meeting code (6502, Z80, and 68000), Visible Primary, and PHP, together with lots of of 1000’s of strains of C. Nevertheless, through the years 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 might memory about days and a long time previous, after I may really use these goodies to create one thing cool. I went from being a developer who may market, to a marketer who used to have the ability to develop. There’s completely nothing fallacious with that, however I prefer to construct. The medium may very well be code, 3D printing, LEGO bricks, electronics parts, and even cardboard –creating and innovating is what motivates and sustains me.
With that as my driving drive, my purpose for the subsequent step of my profession is to speculate extra time centered on studying and utilizing fewer issues, constructing cool stuff, and creating contemporary, 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 staff, each seen and invisible. Right here we’re on the current AWS re:Invent celebration of the weblog’s twentieth anniversary (photograph courtesy of Liz Fuentes with edits by Channy Yun so as to add those that have been in any other case occupied):
Throughout the celebration I instructed the staff that I stay up for celebrating the 30 yr anniversary with them at re:Invent 2034.
Going ahead, the staff will proceed to develop and the purpose stays the identical: to offer our prospects with fastidiously chosen, high-quality details about the newest and most significant AWS launches. The weblog is in nice palms and this staff 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 through the years. As soon as in your life, for those who work onerous and get actually fortunate, you get a singular alternative to do one thing that basically and really issues to individuals. And I’ve been fortunate.
— Jeff;