Corey and Ahmed dive into the delicate balance of giving honest feedback while speaking at company events. From AWS’s “sharp edges” to clunky user experiences, they explore how to be constructive without burning bridges.
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AWS Morning Brief for the week of April, 13th with Corey Quinn.
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Thinking everyone “already knows” is a trap we all fall into… but it’s never true.
Corey and Ahmed discuss why making your talks and insights accessible to everyone is always the right move.
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You start with one app…
Then it becomes five…
Then suddenly you're running a platform.
We talk about Kubernetes, scaling decisions, and when building your own tools stops making sense with Ahmed Bebars.
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AWS Morning Brief for the week of April 6th, with Corey Quinn.
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Kubernetes isn’t always the answer.
Build vs buy isn’t black and white.
And engineering trade-offs are everywhere.
Ahmed Bebars joins us for a real-world conversation on cloud decisions that actually matter.
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Engineers love to build.
But maintaining what you build? That’s the hard part.
We dive into cloud complexity, Kubernetes, and build vs buy with Ahmed Bebars.
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Just because you can build it… doesn’t mean you should.
In this episode, Ahmed Bebars breaks down the real cost of build vs buy, Kubernetes complexity, and engineering trade-offs.
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AI costs today feel like cloud in 2013: fast growth, unclear value, and lots of guesswork.
We unpacked it with JR Storment 👇
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The biggest myth in cloud?
“That AWS/Azure/GCP already solved cost management.”
Spoiler: they didn’t.
Corey and J.R. unpack why understanding your bill is still the hardest problem, and why that’s not changing anytime soon.
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AWS Morning Brief for the week of March 30th, with Corey Quinn.
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The biggest myth in cloud?
“That AWS/Azure/GCP already solved cost management.”
Spoiler: they didn’t.
Corey and J.R. unpack why understanding your bill is still the hardest problem, and why that’s not changing anytime soon.
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AI is driving cloud costs… but no one can explain the bill.
Corey and J.R. dig into:
FinOps for AI vs AI for FinOps
Why forecasting AI spend is so hard
And how companies are flying blind
This conversation is a must-listen if you're touching AI.
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AWS Morning Brief for the week of March 23rd, with Corey Quinn.
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AWS Morning Brief for the week of March 16th, with Corey Quinn.
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Can’t swing a dead cat without hitting a new database these days… but when do you actually need a graph database?
In this episode Corey talks with Roi Lipman, CTO of Falco DB, about where graph fits.
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AWS Morning Brief for the week of March 2nd, with Corey Quinn.
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Short-form content gets attention.
But can it drive real business?
Chris talks about:
• Podcast clips on TikTok
• Enterprise marketing in short-form
• Why platforms don’t want users to leave
• And what actually converts
This one goes deep.
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AWS killed startups by launching competing products, but Datadog and Snowflake still won. Why? Eric Anderson breaks it down.
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AWS Morning Brief for the week of February 17th, with Corey Quinn.
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Eric Anderson built Spot Instances at AWS by turning unused capacity into hundreds of tiny markets. Hear the story on this episode of Screaming in the Cloud.
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The best AI products don’t scream “AI” everywhere. Eric and Corey use Honeycomb as an example on this episode of Screaming in the Cloud.
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On this episode of Screaming in the Cloud, Eric Anderson explains why the AI bubble is inevitable when companies go from $1B to $7B revenue in one year.
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On this episode of Screaming in the Cloud, Chase Douglas and Corey Quinn discuss how AI changed software engineering on this episode of Screaming in the Cloud.
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Chase Douglas was frustrated with AI coding tools for months. Now he's optimistic after learning spec-driven development. Hear what changed on this episode of Screaming in the Cloud.
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AWS Morning Brief for the week of February 9th, with Corey Quinn.
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AWS released 66 announcements at re:Invent compared to 100+ before. Chase Douglas and Corey Quinn discuss declining AWS innovation on Screaming in the Cloud.
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New episode of Screaming in the Cloud features Chase Douglas from Archodex discussing Shadow AI, re:Invent nightmares, and capturing AI interactions for compliance.
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On this episode of Screaming in the Cloud, Corey Quinn explains how he uses AI to curate his newsletter, and he still reads everything himself.
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