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I spent five and a half years at AWS before moving (back) to Microsoft, where I work today. At Amazon, many meetings began with silent reading. Instead of presenting a document,...

Friday, February 14th is my last day at Amazon.

Since my first day in AWS 5 1/2 years ago, I’ve been experimenting with keeping a CHANGELOG of everything I do, available for everyone at the company to see. I wrote about it he...

Amazon OpenSearch and Amazon OpenSearch Serverless use AWS SigV4 for authentication. We’ve made it dead easy to make authenticated requests across all OpenSearch clients in open...

I’ve now been at Amazon for 3 years, and it has been a year since I joined OpenSearch, a community-driven, open source fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana. Last week we released Op...

I made a website in PHP around 1996, right after the birth of the thing itself, to replace some dirty C++ CGI scripts. That didn’t live for long, so I haven’t really done PHP in...

I haven’t written any C++ since 2009, or cross-platform C++ since the 90s. Working with the language in 2020 continues to require a lot of paper and glue (a.k.a. autoconf and ma...

Six months ago I joined AWS to work on a new service, AWS Data Exchange, launched today. AWS Data Exchange makes it easy to find, subscribe to, and use third-party data in the c...

I recently started working with Apache Spark, Hadoop, HDFS and Hive. I made some jobs in Scala that generated website sitemaps and another that calculated the importance of an a...