> Adrian Cockcraft helped lead Netflix's effort to move to AWS and now is a VP at AWS.
I always get a bad taste in my mouth when I read things like that. Was it really an objective choice, or was this AWS’ way of saying “thank you” ?
I always get a bad taste in my mouth when I read things like that. Was it really an objective choice, or was this AWS’ way of saying “thank you” ?
He wasn't hired by AWS because he migrated datacenters to the cloud. He was hired by AWS because he created this: https://netflix.github.io/ - Netflix's OSS, which has allowed them to attract so much great talent, was a direct result of Adrian's passionate open source advocacy. He's doing the same thing at AWS now, and has already accomplished great things like open sourcing all of the AWS documentation.
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