Ditching the Geeky Tee for the Business Suit: My First Oracle CloudWorld Experience
Over the last year, I’ve been hearing the name “Oracle Cloud” a lot. And last week, I was invited to the Oracle CloudWorld annual event to learn more about this…
AWS re:Invent 2022: The Most Important Cloud Event of the Year Runs Like a Well-Oiled Machine
[Update: November 16, 2022] This week, Amazon announced that they are about to lay off around 10K employees, the largest job cut in the company’s history. The layoffs focus on…
How to Create a Content Machine: Tech Content That Drives Traffic and Lead Generation
IOD’s June hybrid event brought together two forward-thinking minds in the tech content world to discuss one of the greatest challenges tech marketers face: how to build a sustainable…
Multicloud Adoption, AWS Culture, and My New Socks: More 2019 re:Invent Reflections
It’s now a week after departing from Vegas, from my 8th AWS re:Invent, and I still find myself reflecting on the experience. Last week, still high off the mildly manic…
Embrace Change or Die: My Thoughts on Cloud, AWS, and Transformation in my 8th Year at re:Invent
If anyone in tech has the right to use the word “transformation,” it’s Amazon Web Services. Now a $36 billion company with total profits of $8.8 billion over the last…
6 Breakout Sessions I Plan on Attending at re:Invent 2019
AWS re:Invent is just around the corner and will bring together tens of thousands of attendees from around the world, including professionals in the cloud computing community, journalists covering the…
Your AWS re:Invent 2019 Guide to All Things DevOps
High-stakes gambling, fine dining, and exclusive parties; that’s what Vegas is all about. Oh, and (DevOps) computer nerds of course! Yup, re:Invent 2019 is fast approaching, and year after year,…
IOD Tech Talk: Takeaways from VMworld 2019 Europe
In my previous life, I was a journalist. Every now and again I find myself in situations where I get to wear that hat again. Last week, for instance, I…
Thoughts at the End of My 7-Year AWS reInvent Cycle
Competing with Partners, the Cost of Cloud, and Looking Forward to the Next 7 Years This was my 7th re:Invent. Which, if you know your stuff or do some quick…
So You Want to Be a Tech Blogger?
NEXT WORKSHOP: APRIL 25, 2018
Have you always wanted to start a tech blog, but worry you can’t write well or, worse, fear you don’t truly have anything important to say? Well, you can and do. More and more technology experts — from programmers to data architects to operations engineers — are researching and developing original content, and getting paid for it!
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