And learned a few things along the way — It happened more than a decade ago. While I might have forgotten some technical details, I remember how I felt like it was yesterday. “I am done. It is the end, and I will be fired now.” These were the words I kept repeating to myself. I had just deleted…

Becoming a Better Engineer — Part 3 — “Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.” — Winston Churchill I deleted a database in production “I am done. It is the end and I will be fired now.” These were the words I kept repeating to myself. I had just deleted a production database critical to our customers…

Becoming a Better Engineer — Part 2 — “In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks”. — John Muir In part 1 of this series, I talked about intuition and how it can help engineers improve their performance. In this part 2, I will talk about another soft skill critical for engineers— empathy. How it all started I…

Becoming a Better Engineer — Part 1 — The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. — Albert Einstein How it all started The realization that intuition was going to be important happened approximately 15 years ago. Cloud computing was still…

My response to the reaction generated by the Prime Video article published last week — “Life is not always perfect. Like a road, it has many bends, ups and down, but that’s its beauty.” ― Amit Ray Every now and then, the internet goes crazy over something someone said, did, or thought. Last week, it was an article from the Video Quality Analysis (VQA) team…

A list of my blog posts related to AWS Fault Injection Simulator — AWS Fault Injection Simulator AWS Fault Injection Simulator (AWS FIS) is a fully managed service for running fault injection experiments on AWS that makes it easier to improve an application’s performance, observability, and resilience. Supported actions are listed here — but more will follow. Following are the different blogs that dive deep into using…

Tutorial — Using Datadog Alarms with Amazon EventBridge to Safely Monitor AWS Fault Injection Simulator Experiments — Many businesses and organizations adopt cloud computing as a key aspect of their technology strategy. While most applications can be migrated easily, some need modernization before they can be moved to the cloud. There are also applications that must remain on-premises due to extreme low-latency requirements, and data sovereignty or…

I have been working in the IT industry for a little over two decades and while a lot has changed since I started, few things haven’t, including Technology and People. Of course, technologies have changed. But Technology, with a capital T, hasn’t. If anything, it has become more pervasive. Most…

Originally published in AWS Compute Blog This post is written by Adrian Hornsby (Principal System Dev Engineer) and Marcia Villalba (Principal Developer Advocate). AWS Lambda comprises over 80 services working together to provide the serverless compute service that it offers to customers. Under the hood, many of these services are…