Randall Hunt
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VP Cloud at @CaylentInc . We're hiring! Formerly @pytorch , @awscloud , @mongodb , @SpaceX . Opinions are my own.
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I love this team. ❤️
We are building some incredible stuff here.
Huge news! Caylent is now home to over 500 Cayliens!
Caylent's journey has been remarkable, from being named AWS's Rising Star Partner of the Year in 2021 to ranking
#7
in Inc 5000's fastest-growing companies in 2023. We are committed to helping impactful organizations evolve
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I’ve been coding for almost 2 decades. I can’t beat most nontrivial coding interviews to save my life. I’ve written software that saved ~$62M. Architected systems that serve billions of requests per day.
But fuck me because I can’t solve an infinite jigsaw puzzle 🧩, right?
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This is completely false. I was there.
I have him muted but 50+ people have sent me this nonsense and asked for my comment... so I've conceded.
The record needs to be corrected. He's completely incorrect and I have receipts. 🧵
The only reason AWS teams chose to host non-trivial applications on Lambda was because Amazon leadership forced them to.
The argument was:
“How can we sell something we’re not using ourselves?”
and
“If we force ourselves to use it, it will become better.”
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She said yes. Very good day. Sorry for sappy non tech tweet.
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Very cool new feature to SSH into ec2 instances via IAM:
Connect in the console or via CLI:
$ aws s3 cp s3://ec2-instance-connect/cli/ec2instanceconnectcli-latest.tar.gz .
$ pip install ec2instanceconnectcli-latest.tar.gz
$ mssh instanceid
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My last day at AWS is July 31st. Working here has been the highlight of my career so far. I will continue blogging, speaking, and participating in the AWS community! I'll update everyone on my next adventure soon.
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I learned a magic trick for filtering out people who just want me to do their work for them.
“What have you tried so far?”
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AWS just released mountpoint - an open ssource high-throughput file client for S3. Written in Rust!
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I don’t know who needs to here this but:
you probably don’t need kubernetes.
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Quick life update: Friday was my last day on the AWS Evangelism team. I’ve moved to the Amazon Connect team to help build out new features and tools for a super fun product. I’ll still be around and speaking but with less of a focus on outbound. Thanks for an amazing 5 years!
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Anyway. I hate all this twitter bullshit and he has an army of bot followers that I have no interest in engaging. There was probably a way of saying this that was more diplomatic... but I've got a broken foot and a root canal in the same week so I woke up and chose violence.
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Just saw a job description:
"10+ years of experience with AWS Lambda"
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I don't know exactly when DynamoDB published this guide of best practices but it is a **masterclass** in documentation. I now refer to it constantly
My new goal is to get the SEO on this page higher so people can answer their DDB modeling questions.
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Kubernetes 😅🤪
What’s the best term for the phenomenon by which people create additional complexity in order to preserve their role & importance?
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I’ve been working with
@awscloud
’s
#Bedrock
service for a couple of months now at
@caylentinc
, and I’d like to share some of what I’ve learned. 🧵
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Just launched: Aurora Serverless for MySQL
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I turn 30 today. That freaks me out and makes me uncomfortable because I still don't feel like a grown up.
If I were an AWS lambda function I would have been running for 9.461×10^11 ms and cost $15,800.00. Oof, and about 10 years of that was all cold start.
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As a counterpoint I also once restarted a system b/c I fat fingered something. That cost a company ~$4M ... but I’m net positive.
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Daniel was an L5 engineer who had literally zero visibility into AWS leadership. I have no idea why he's crafting this absurd narrative that AWS leadership was pushing lambda. Half of them had no idea what Lambda was.
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@kwiens
@AnthropicAI
I see the disallow in your robots.txt are you saying they explicitly ignored that or that was the fix to prevent the crawling?
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Amazon has an internal tool where you can earn icons, like tiny virtual trophies, for various events.
Teams try to motivate me to work on stuff with AMZN gift cards... but what they don’t realize is that the only thing I truly care about in life is those icons.
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Vim is better than emacs. Javascript is mass psychosis. A-M-I not ahmee. You don't need kubernetes. Coding interviews don't work.
<+33.97881061,-118.41451170> +/- 65.00m
Send help.
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I think we should have a "Kelsey Hightower" award in technology each year.
I'm in 100s of slack communities and discords. Everyone is sharing stories of how this one person positively impacted their lives.
@kelseyhightower
, congratulations and thank you for everything.
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I do think Daniel makes decent content. I just hate all the posturing.
He doesn't have any skin in the game but he doesn't hesitate to make bold prognostications.
Daniel, I wish you the best - but stop opining on things your know fuck all about. I was there. You're wrong.
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Developer Evangelism is 100% the best job in the world. I get to travel the world and see places I never would have seen before. Everyday I meet people building solutions to complex problems. What an interesting and exciting world we live in.
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Streaming responses in AWS Lambda. Incredible.
A lower TTFB is a game changer for *so many* workloads. Congratulations to the
@awscloud
Lambda team for getting this out.
This is the most important announcement so far this year.
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I'm totally in love with this visualization of our global infrastructure. I talk about our global deployments in every single presentation and have a visualization like this will be a huge benefit for helping customers understand:
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Just to clarify - this brings Lambda
@Edge
to the next level. Functions up to 50mb, using 1536mb of memory, and timeouts up to 30 seconds. You can run full apps at the edge now!
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I just started a new role as VP of Cloud Strategy and Solutions at
@caylentinc
!
I’m particularly excited about this role because of the amazing talent on the existing team, the huge opportunity to be *the* premier AWS partner, and the chance to build in
@awscloud
again! 🧵
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Cool launch today with CloudFormation Macros!
⚡️Write lambda functions to transform your templates.
⚡️You can extend your infrastructure as code with more code!
It's incredibly powerful and I'm excited to see what customers build with it!
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AWS Lambdas are now configurable up to:
10GB deployment size
10GB RAM (6vCPU)
10GB /tmp
15 minute runtime
So your most expensive per-invocation lambda cost ends up: ~$0.13
On Fargate, nonspot, (4vCPU) that same task:
~$0.07
Worth it? Totally depends on the workload.
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Deep dive is here:
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AWS Secrets Manager launch! Check out my blog post for more info :)
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A few folks seem to think I hate k8s in any form. I don’t. It’s fine for plenty of things. And managed k8s is great too. I just go to a lot of startups and see it being used to “speed up app deployment” meanwhile their app is missing a logout button and customers.
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Run step functions locally!
docker pull amazon/aws-stepfunctions-local
docker run -p 8083:8083 amazon/aws-stepfunctions-local
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🎊🎉SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning 🎉🎊
My favorite feature of 2018 so far.
Great console, great SDK, great work. I wrote a blog post that covers a few of the features.
Tweet thread full of gifs and code to follow.
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Had a consult with a principal engineer today and they brought up something that might be obvious but I'm repeating it because it wasn't obvious to me:
Just because you can make something more performant doesn't mean you should. Why? (thread)
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It's strange to realize all the best things at AWS start with a word document written hastily on plane rides with thousands of iterations by 100s of people carefully pouring over each word. Stay tuned.
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What are the best open source AWS cost-control tools?
Shortlist to start us off:
* Cloud Custodian
* Komiser
* Cloud Haunter
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June 1st is my last day at Facebook. It's bittersweet to leave the incredible
@fbOpenSource
and
@PyTorch
teams.
Where am I headed next? I'm extremely excited to join
@VendiaHQ
as Director of Developer Relations. I'll share more about Vendia in a few days.
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If you’re worried about your kids or pets being on calls then please don’t. Anyone who doesn’t understand is a jerk and you don’t want to be on a call with them anyway.
I had a call with a customer today and their kid was so cute and polite. It’s the highlight of my day so far.
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What are the biggest mistakes you see startups making in AWS?
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Unpopular opinion: every AWS VP/GM should build a solution on their product. Once a month.
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I have no degree. I am a tech evangelist for
@awscloud
and used to work in flight software
@SpaceX
#unqualifiedfortech
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RDS Storage now scales automatically for all engines. Nice!!
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So wait... is the secret to good cooking just lots and lots of oil, butter, salt, and pepper?
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I remember a conversation with Peter Bell that convinced me that "leaders" have no idea what they're doing - he said "lambda should be like the sum function in excel".
The idea that AWS leadership has any input into tech decisions is kind of laughable.
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Say what you will about
@awscloud
but I have had a GCP support ticket open for almost 6 weeks with no meaningful response. AWS fixed this random build issue in less than 24 hours.
Thank you 🙏
@jrhunt
I created it as a daytime sev 2, but someone already took a look and root caused it. They'll trigger and monitor the rollback during business hours in Dublin.
For now, please utilize the previous Python3.11 image
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Not seeing many people talk about this one but: CloudWatch Synthetics runs tests on your endpoints every minute, 24x7, and alerts you when your application endpoints don’t behave as expected
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Every major blog post I wrote for re:invent
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If you were going to get a tattoo of any technical concept, encoding, piece of code, whatever - what would it be?
Do something better than this.
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Imagine if they'd spent that money on their products and support🙄
Amazon professes to be customer-obsessed, not competitor-focused, but one of its cloud rivals is proving tough to ignore this week. Now appearing on
@SphereVegas
, a 90-second
@googlecloud
ad, strategically timed for
@awscloud
#reinvent2023
, taking place on the next block over.
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I have not always been happy at AWS. I am currently happy. It is a nice feeling. If any of my colleagues are having a rough time here: don’t despair. It’s a big company full of opportunities and you can find a place that makes you happy.
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Dear Men,
There’s lots of things we need to do better. Let’s make “using your cellphone at the urinal” one of the things we stop doing.
Please,
Randall
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Oh dear god - wait does this mean I have to pay my own AWS bill?
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When your passwords randomly stop working does anyone else have a panic attack that they got fired?
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Me: yeah so I've been sick since reinvent
Doctor: wtf is reinvent
Me: conference, vegas, I shake many hands, it was 2 weeks ago.
Doctor: What hurts
Me: ...
Doctor: ...
Me: throat and chest.
Doctor: I prescribe vacation, hot water, antibiotics, and stop shaking hands with randos.
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I know this has been said before but, as a manager, sometimes the code you see committed is actually the result of hundreds of experiments. So just because it’s only a few 100 lines - those 100 lines took 1000s of lines to get to. It’s frustrating if you don’t recognize that.
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1. Denial
2. Anger
3. Bargaining
4. Depression
5. Acceptance.
The five stages of kubernetes 😅
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1. Build greenfield on lambda/serverless. Exceptions for services that spend long times in IO wait states.
2. Once you understand the utilization, entities, and access patterns you can get better price/performance out of other compute platforms.
It's that simple.
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2 steps to becoming wealthy as a programmer:
1. Learn object oriented programming
2. Inheritance
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Today I was pair programming with my amazing colleague Erin Hall and not only did our code compile correctly on the first try but it worked end-to-end on the first try. This is a ridiculously complex system.
I now announce my retirement from programming. I will never top this.
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Why can’t Trump reenter the whitehouse?
Because it’s forbiden.
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Sometimes I want to sign up for an unpaid internship at AWS just so I can rebuild SSO and Cognito but not in Java from 2009. I would accept profit sharing from the literal oceans of cash they would get from providing an AWS native auth solution THAT ALLOWS YOU TO LOGOUT.
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Would it be insane if I became a JS dev after all my years of trash talk?
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Two nights ago I spent 2 hours researching why thunderbolt on an m1 wasn't carrying a usb keyboard signal in addition to the display signal (for kvm setup). I got into device driver code, kernel extensions, everything.
It turns out I was plugging/unplugging the wrong keyboard.
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We are so back.
This Swami keynote is epic. Great job to
@awscloud
team!
THIS is why we come to
#AWSreInvent
. Love these new capabilities that we can bring to our customers to build new and innovative things.
I am so pumped up right now. LETS GO! ☁️🚀
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Hill I'm willing to die on:
People, on instant messengers, who send "hi" and then don't immediately follow that up with relevant info / context, should have their messaging privileges revoked.
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