After 20 years and three,283 posts totaling 1,577,106 phrases, I’m concluding my time as lead blogger on the AWS Information Weblog.
It has been a privilege to have the ability to “reside sooner or later” and be taught and write about lots of our improvements over the past twenty years: message queue, storage, on-demand computing, serverlessand quantum computing to call only a few and pass over many others. It has additionally been a privilege to have the ability to meet and listen to from lots of you who’ve faithfully learn and (hopefully) realized from my content material through the years. I worth these interactions and your sort phrases, and I hold each in thoughts once I write.
Subsequent up for Jeff
I began my profession as a builder. Through the years, I’ve written tens of 1000’s of strains of meeting code (6502, Z80, and 68000), Visible Fundamental, and PHP, together with a whole bunch of 1000’s of strains of C. Nonetheless, through the years, I’ve progressively spent much less time constructing and extra time speaking about constructing. As every new service and have flashed earlier than my eyes, I used to be reminded of days and a long time previous, once I may actually use these benefits to create one thing attention-grabbing. I went from being a developer who may market to a marketer who used to have the ability to develop. There may be completely nothing incorrect with that, however I wish to construct. The medium may very well be code, 3D printing, LEGO bricks, digital parts and even cardboard; Creating and innovating is what motivates and sustains me.
With that as my driving pressure, my objective for the following step of my AWS profession is to speculate extra time centered on studying and utilizing much less issues, creating attention-grabbing issues, and creating new, developer-focused content material whereas doing it. I am nonetheless engaged on figuring out what kind it will take, so keep tuned. I will even proceed making my weekly appearances on AWS within the air (our Friday Twitch present) and can proceed to talk at AWS neighborhood occasions world wide.
Subsequent for the Weblog
As for the AWS Information Weblog, it has lengthy been supported by an unimaginable crew, each seen and unseen. Right here we’re within the latest AWS re:Invent celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the weblog (photograph courtesy of Liz Fuentes with editions of channy yun so as to add those that had been busy):
In the course of the celebration I instructed the crew that I sit up for celebrating the thirtieth anniversary with them at re:Invent 2034.
Going ahead, the crew will proceed to develop and the objective stays the identical: to offer our prospects with high-quality, fastidiously curated data on the newest and most important AWS releases. The weblog is in nice palms and this crew will proceed to maintain you knowledgeable even because the tempo of AWS innovation continues to speed up.
Thanks once more
As soon as once more I must thanks all for the sort phrases and gestures through the years. As soon as in your life, in case you work arduous and are very fortunate, you’ll have a novel alternative to do one thing that basically issues to folks. And I have been fortunate.
— Jeff;
