Corey Quinn

The Cloud’s Competing Approaches to Deprecation

By Corey Quinn

The biggest mistakes we ever find in software are written by the worst developer imaginable: the past version of yourself. “If I’d known then what I know now, I’d have built that thing completely differently” is a common refrain, and not just for individual coders. So it goes for cloud providers, who are forced to […]

The Amazonian Evil Infecting AWS

By Corey Quinn

Be wary of the ways Amazon is running its retail business; it’s starting to leach into AWS.

The Great Lie

By Corey Quinn

There’s a universal lie that technical people believe across the board. It goes something like this: “After this next sprint ends, then we’re going to pay off all of our technical debt and start doing everything the right way.”

The Lessons of AWS Infinidash

By Corey Quinn

I once said that AWS has launched so many services that I could talk about a service that didn’t really exist and not get called out for it–by AWS employees. Sure enough, last week saw the rise of AWS Infinidash, an imaginary AWS service that doesn’t (at the time of this writing) really exist.

I Scored 81% on my AWS Certification Exam, Locking in my re:Invent Lounge Pass

By Corey Quinn

Back in March, I took the beta AWS Certified Sysops Administrator – Associate exam because my Certified Cloud Practitioner was expiring.

The Cloud Genie

By Corey Quinn

There’s a joke that I’ve always been partial to: a software engineering type rubs a lamp and a genie appears. The genie says that he’ll grant the engineer $1 billion, but only if they can spend $100 million in a single month with three rules. “You can’t gift it away. You can’t gamble with it. […]

The Trillion-Dollar Paradoxical Arguments of a16z

By Corey Quinn

A couple of weeks ago, a blog post from Andreesen Horowitz talked about “The Cost of Cloud, a Trillion Dollar Paradox.”

The Key to Unlock the AWS Billing Puzzle is Architecture

By Corey Quinn

When you talk about AWS billing, you’re talking about AWS architecture. Most folks don’t recognize that they’re the same thing.

To Save Money on Your AWS Bill, Turn That S— Off

By Corey Quinn

Before you buy Savings Plans, sign an AWS contract, or rearchitect your environment, consider doing this first.

The 17 Ways to Run Containers on AWS

By Corey Quinn

There may be 50 ways to leave your lover, but there are 17 ways to run containers on AWS. I will now enumerate them.

New CEO Onboarding at AWS

By Corey Quinn

Adam Selipsky is returning to AWS as its new CEO. I fill him in on some of the things he missed while he was gone.