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Deirdré Straughan

Author: Deirdré Straughan

Deirdré has been communicating about technology, and helping others to do so, for 30 years. She has written one book (so far); edited two more (so far); produced and delivered technical training; produced hundreds of videos and live streams of technical talks; written, edited, and managed blogs; and managed events. She has been applying this skill set to cloud computing since 2010, and to open source for even longer. She joined AWS in 2017. You can find her at @deirdres on Twitter.

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AWS Open Source blog in review: 2019

Last year I published a list of the open source blog’s 2018’s top ten posts. This year I’m starting with a list of lists of things that happened on the AWS Open Source blog in 2019.   Launches We launched new projects, features, and project support: Open Distro for Elasticsearch (more info below) Amazon Introduces […]

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Open Source News Roundup: April 22, 2019

Upcoming Events RailsConf (April 30-May 2 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) – Lounge & Lanyard Sponsor. Workshop on Going Serverless with Ruby on AWS Lambda by Alex Wood and Jingyi Chen. PyCon (May 1-9 in Cleveland, Ohio) – Platinum Sponsor. Come find us at Booth #439 to see how AWS <3 Python. Percona Live (May 28-30 in […]

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Open Source News Roundup: April 8, 2019

中文版 Databases New MySQL / PostgreSQL version support on RDS – Amazon RDS now supports MySQL Community Edition minor versions 5.7.25 and 5.7.24, and MariaDB minor version 10.2.21 in all AWS regions, and Amazon RDS now supports PostgreSQL major version 11. Open Source Contributions Amazon ElastiCache contributed a new feature to the redis performance benchmark, […]

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Friday, November 30: Open Source Sessions Today at re:Invent

中文版 Please double-check the AWS re:Invent event catalog to confirm the date/time/venue for your session! Remember, this is not an exhaustive list! Also see the overview post Open Source at re:Invent 2018 for links to broad topic areas (e.g., containers) that are also about open source. 8:30 AM – 9:30 AM SEC378-R1 – Securely Deploying […]

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Thursday, November 29: Open Source Sessions Today at re:Invent

中文版 Please double-check the AWS re:Invent event catalog to confirm the date/time/venue for your session! Remember, this is not an exhaustive list! Also see the overview post Open Source at re:Invent 2018 for links to broad topic areas (e.g., containers) that are also about open source. 11:30 AM – 12:00 PM SPO34 – Maker Space […]

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Wednesday, November 28: Open Source Sessions Today at re:Invent

中文版 Please double-check the AWS re:Invent event catalog to confirm the date/time/venue for your session! Remember, this is not an exhaustive list! Also see the overview post Open Source at re:Invent 2018 for links to broad topic areas (e.g., containers) that are also about open source. 11:30 AM – 12:00 PM SPO23 – Maker Space […]