“A distinguished engineer not only leads; they also take responsibility. A distinguished engineer will not throw any of his or her team under the proverbial bus to protect themselves, nor will the make technical decisions that involve a massive pay back later (technical debt) without explaining why and getting buy in and understanding for the decision.”

Building Lambda functions is fun, but we needed a way to preview what we've done before paying to do it in production. So we built an emulator. Enjoy!

Ce soir aux HumanTalks de MaineLabs, j'ai eu la plaisir de faire une petite présentation sur mon boulot comme DevOps à Amazon Web Services lors de mes 2 années à Dublin.

L'intégralité du talk a été filmé et mise en ligne sur Youtube :

Les slides sont accessibles ici, ainsi que …

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