10 Lessons from 10 Years of AWS (part 1)

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I recently presented a talk at the AWS Community Day in Bangalore. The tweet following the talk became my most popular tweet ever and I received quite a few requests for more details.

For the last 10 years, I have had the chance to work in companies that embraced the cloud, and in particular AWS. This two-part blog post is an attempt to share that experience with you. Hope you enjoy! Please do not hesitate to give feedback, share your own stories or simply like đź™‚

EMBRACE FAILURE

“It is not failure itself that holds you back; it is the fear of failure that paralyses you.” Brian Tracy

Let me start by saying that scared developers won’t:

* try things out

* won’t innovate as fast as your business would need to

* won’t dare to jump in and fix things when (pardon my French) shit hits the fan

* won’t do more than ask for

* and won’t stay long in the job

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