Friday, December 16, 2011

Looking at Clouds from Both Sides Now

I'll apologize up front for that horrible pun in the title.  No excuse, really.

After 18 months at Eucalyptus, the best private cloud vendor out there, I have decided to see what things are like on the public cloud side.  As of Monday, December 19, I will be a senior engineer at Amazon Web Services.

I was very reluctant to leave Eucalyptus.  It is a great company, full of great people and with a corporate culture that absolutely cannot be beat.  And, while a lot of people's attention has been focused on shiny new things over the past year, Eucalyptus has quietly and steadily built amazing sales, support, marketing and professional services teams to match their already awesome engineering team.  2012 is going to be another kick-ass year for Eucalyptus and I really hate to miss that.

But the idea of seeing how the sausage is made at the biggest public cloud is an opportunity I couldn't pass up.  In my new job, I will still be focusing on software tools and how to make it easier for developer's to use cloud infrastructures, both public and private.  I will still be doing a lot of Python stuff and definitely still making sure that boto stays a popular, useful and independent open source project just as it did while I was at Eucalyptus.

It should be fun!


8 comments:

  1. Congrats! You'll do very well at AWS. I do hope they'll keep you on boto a good bit, selfishly.

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  2. Sending congrats from Finland, too :D Btw, does this mean that there'll be an official AWS SDK for Python some time in the future?

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  3. I think boto will be just fine in the future with a bit more energy and focus and the support of Amazon.

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  4. congrats on your new journey! I'll continue to seek your wisdom :)

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  5. I wonder how many people got the Joni Mitchell reference in the title. :) Godspeed, sir.

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  6. Fantastic news, makes AWS much more attractive now you are officially part of it. Looking forward to Dynamo in Boto :) Keep up the good work.

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  7. The initial support for Amazon DynamoDB was committed to github yesterday. Give it a try and let me know what you think!

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