The AWS Developers Podcast

In this episode Dave and Emily chat with Jeff Barr, VP of Evangelism at AWS. Jeff

has been with Amazon since 2002 and was the first person in a full-time developer advocate

role. In this follow-up conversation from last week’s episode, Jeff covers the culture of

innovation behind AWS, tips for managing time, and how to have productive interactions with

other developer teams.

Jeff on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jeffbarr

Jeff on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffbarr/

Jeff Barr FAQ: http://jeff-barr.com/jeff-barr-faq/

AWS Blog: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs

AWS Community on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/aws/

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In this episode Dave and Emily chat with Jeff Barr, VP of Evangelism at Amazon

Web Services. Jeff has been with Amazon since 2002, and was the first person in a full-time

developer advocate role. Jeff covers what the early AWS developer community looked like,

early developer relations at AWS, the importance of community, and how developers have

shaped the roadmap for many AWS services over time. If you enjoy tech industry history this

episode is for you!

Jeff on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jeffbarr

Jeff on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffbarr/

Jeff Barr FAQ: http://jeff-barr.com/jeff-barr-faq/

AWS Blog: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs

AWS Community on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/aws/

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In this episode Dave and Emily chat with Ross Barich, Principal Developer

Community Manager at Amazon Web Services, and owner of the AWS Heroes program. The AWS

Heroes program, and its associated program Community Builders, are part of Amazon’s AWS

Developers Community recognition programs. These programs recognize members from across the

globe, developers helping the community grow, mentoring other developers, creating

educational content, and active both online and at in person events.

Ross on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rossbarich

Ross on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rossbarich/

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Follow a Hero:

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AWS Community Builders:

https://amzn.to/3sRkKgt

AWS Community Builders Open Enrollment (Apply by Aug 31st!):

https://bit.ly/2WnI2yV

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In this episode Emily and Dave continue the conversation with Memo Doring, Head

of Developer Relations for Latin America (LATAM) at Amazon Web Services. The Latin America

region is home to over 600 million, covering a diverse geography, people, and languages. In

part two of this two-part conversation, Memo talks about his experience helping LATAM

companies move to the cloud, the effects of the global pandemic, and some of the unique

business opportunities that only exist in LATAM.

Memo on Twitter: https://twitter.com/memodoring

AWS Certification (Spanish): https://aws.amazon.com/es/certification/

AWS Certification (Portuguese): https://aws.amazon.com/pt/certification/

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In this episode Emily and Dave chat with Memo Doring, Head of Developer Relations

for Latin America (LATAM) at Amazon Web Services. The Latin America region is home to over

600 million, covering a diverse geography, people and languages. In part one of this

two-part conversation, Memo talks about his experience starting a new developer relations

team in Latin America, being a Latino in tech, and the unique challenges of a developer

community encompassing so many cultures.

Memo on Twitter: https://twitter.com/memodoring

Book mentioned - DevOps for Dummies by Emily Freeman:

https://www.amazon.com/DevOps-Dummies-Computer-Tech/dp/1119552222/

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In this episode Emily and Dave chat with Luc van Donkersgoed, Lead Solution

Software Engineer at the Dutch Postal Service, and a DevTools AWS Community Builder. Luc

covers his journey of acquiring all 12 AWS certifications, his real-world approach to exam

taking, and ideas on prototyping with the cloud.

Luc on Twitter: https://twitter.com/donkersgood

Luc’s AWS Solution Architect Professional Course: https://youtu.be/tv3eMiO0ACM

Luc’s GitHub: https://github.com/donkersgoed

Luc’s SciFi Book Author Recommendation – Patrick Rothfuss:

https://www.amazon.com/Patrick-Rothfuss/e/B001DAHXZQ

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In this episode Emily and Dave chat with Richard H. Boyd, Sr. Developer Advocate

at Amazon Web Services for Developer Tools. Richard covers his software engineering journey,

CI/CD processes at Amazon, and shares tips for creating productive cloud developer

environments.

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Richard on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rchrdbyd

Richard's Dev Blog: https://rboyd.dev/

Richard's Github: https://github.com/richardhboyd

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Richard's "Mediocre" Cloud9 Tips: https://github.com/richardhboyd/mediocre-cloud9

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Clare Liguori's talk on automating continuous delivery pipelines

at Amazon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngnMj1zbMPY

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In this episode Dave chats again with Elad Ben-Israel, Principal Engineer at

Amazon Web Services for the Cloud Development Kit (CDK). In part two of this two-part

conversation, Elad talks about the current state of the CDK, the CDK community, Projen

project, and the future of CDK.

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Elad on Twitter: twitter.com/emeshbi

Elad’s GitHub.io: http://eladb.github.io/

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CDK.dev Slack: https://cdk.dev/

Projen: Projen - https://bit.ly/projengit

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In this episode Dave chats with Elad Ben-Israel, Principal Engineer at Amazon Web

Services for the Cloud Development Kit (CDK). In part one of this two-part conversation,

Elad talks about his time as a software engineer at Amazon, the creation of the Cloud

Development Kit, and the philosophy behind JSII, a new framework that allows code in any

language to naturally interact with JavaScript classes.

Elad on Twitter: https://twitter.com/emeshbi

Elad’s GitHub.io: https://eladb.github.io/

AWS CDK Git: https://bit.ly/3yB3kWS

CDK Patterns: https://cdkpatterns.com/

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In this episode Emily and Dave talk to Ali Spittel, who leads developer advocacy

for AWS Amplify at Amazon. Ali has a passion for teaching others how to code, and helping

them to become full-time developers. In her role at AWS, she works with mobile and web app

creators on new tools that remove friction, and speed up development time.

Ali on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ASpittel

Ladybug Podcast: https://www.ladybug.dev/

AWS Amplify on Twitter: https://twitter.com/awsamplify

AWS Amplify: https://docs.amplify.aws/

Amplify Discord Server: https://discord.gg/amplify

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