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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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Tuesday, November 27: 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. 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM SPO06 – Maker Space […]

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Monday, November 26: 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. 10:45 AM – 11:45 AM ANT395 – Using Apache […]

The Wheel

Keeping the AWS cloud operating efficiently worldwide is a big job. The team is growing rapidly, and it’s important that new leaders internalize the high bar we set for service operations, and that our senior leaders are able to periodically inspect what’s happening deep in the stack. For over ten years, one of our mechanisms […]

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Open Source Summit Edinburgh

中文版 Next week will be a busy one for AWS open source afficionados: in addition to All Things Open, a bunch of us will be at the Open Source Summit in Edinburgh, for which we are also Gold sponsors. The Open Source Summit will be co-located with two other important events: the Embedded Linux Conference […]

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Open Source News Roundup: June 22, 2018

Next Week! Amazon Linux Launch Event Join us for an interactive event and discover how you can innovate faster using AWS services for Amazon Linux. Senior product leaders from Amazon will announce new features, provide interactive demos, and AWS Chief Evangelist Jeff Barr will share his insights. Afterwards, join us for drinks to celebrate and […]

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Open Source News Roundup: May 11, 2018

AWS SAM CLI Now official! If you knew SAM Local CLI, this is that – but way better! Quickly get started with `sam init`, validate SAM templates, develop and test locally, and package and deploy to the cloud! – GitHub, What’s New AWS EFS Backup Solution v1.2 Released The EFS-to-EFS backup solution automatically deploys the […]

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Open Source News Roundup: April 13, 2018

Open Source News from the AWS Summit San Francisco The AWS Summit in San Francisco on April 4th saw a slew of announcements, including some in open source: SAM Implementation is now open source! “In 2016, we launched SAM and opened up the SAM specification on this Github repo to invite collaborators. We’ve loved your […]