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The day after the election

The day after the election, my toddler son wakes up at 6:00am. He’s bright and awake. He is happy. Mom and Dad stayed up late, doomscrolling the election news, but he doesn’t know any of this.

Nov 6, 2024 - 2 min read
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The expectation creates the result

Recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about artificial intelligence, the nature of human consciousness, and the challenging problem of alignment, both for artificial and human intelligences.

Oct 16, 2024 - 9 min read
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A new direction for my career

For the past seven years I’ve been working with builders who want to deploy containers on AWS. You may know me from personal assistance I’ve given you in direct messages, from reading my social media posts and blog posts about Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate, or from using my reference architecture patterns on Containers on AWS.

Mar 28, 2024 - 5 min read
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The website is down. The cloud is up.

It has been well over a decade since I embarked on my journey with the cloud. I spent the first five years of my career as a customer of Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Mar 25, 2024 - 6 min read
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Chaos in Containers - Unleashing Resilience

I delivered this talk about chaos engineering at CIVO Navigate North America. It felt great to deliver this talk back in my hometown, at the alumni center of The University of Texas at Austin.

Feb 26, 2024 - 29 min watch
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Rethinking infrastructure as code from scratch

Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about infrastructure complexity, and the current state of infrastructure as code. This is problem space that many talented people are tackling.

Jul 20, 2023 - 18 min read
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What I've learned from 6 years as a developer advocate

I’m about to reach six years as a developer advocate at Amazon Web Services. Two years ago I shared a retrospective look at my first four years as a developer advocate and many people have told me that article was helpful for them.

Dec 21, 2022 - 16 min read
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Build your application easily and efficiently with serverless containers

I delivered this talk at AWS re:Invent 2022, as part of the serverless containers track. It compares the ease and efficiency of AWS Lambda, AWS App Runner, and AWS Fargate, with a particular focus on the built-in features of each compute model, and how it scales as you receive large amounts of concurrent web traffic.

Dec 1, 2022 - 44 min watch
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Run a Hybrid Cloud with Amazon ECS Anywhere

I delivered this talk at AWS re:Invent 2022, alongside Cam Mac, Head of Product at Ocado Technology. This talk does a deep dive into the concept of hybrid cloud, and explains how Amazon ECS Anywhere works to help you orchestrate your own hardware using a cloud control plane.

Dec 1, 2022 - 56 min watch