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Cloud wars: Former Amazon Web Services leader Charlie Bell reportedly joins rival Microsoft

GeekWire

Longtime Amazon Web Services leader Charlie Bell has reportedly taken a job at Microsoft. Bell joined Amazon in 1998 when it acquired his company, Server Technologies Group, an e-commerce transaction software company that he founded in 1996 after leaving Oracle, according to his LinkedIn bio. Charlie Bell (LinkedIn Photo).

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Amazon Web Services VP of AI, Matt Wood, is leaving the company

GeekWire

Amazon Photo) Matt Wood, the Amazon Web Services vice president who was a longtime champion of the cloud giant’s machine learning and artificial intelligence initiatives, is leaving the company after 15 years. Matt Wood worked at Amazon for 15 years, most recently as AWS VP of AI.

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The Best Line of Code is the One You Didn't Have to Write!

Social, Agile and Transformation

This post isn''t about code reuse or developing web services. Surely, you and your development organization understand the benefits of developing modular code, packing it in libraries, developing APIs and web services, insuring that test cases are automated, and hopefully starting to enable continuous delivery.

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9 Ways IoT Integration Will Influence Custom Software Development

IT Toolbox

The wide use of IoT will bring about changes in all areas of IT, and will definitely affect such areas of custom software development as software R&D, application of new tech and web services, software architecture, front end development and UI design. New job roles and responsibilities

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Building Like Amazon

Speaker: Leo Zhadanovsky, Principal Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services

Amazon's journey to its current modern architecture and processes provides insights for all software development leaders. To get there, Amazon focused on decomposing for agility, making critical cultural and operational changes, and creating tools for software delivery. The "two pizza" team culture.

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What to expect at re:Invent: Amazon Web Services navigates uncertain economic times

GeekWire

Amazon Web Services will face a new challenge at its annual re:Invent conference in Las Vegas this week: keeping software developers and big corporate customers engaged with the long-term potential of its cloud platform, while grappling with the more immediate realities of an economic downturn. Amazon Photo).

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Amazon Web Services to offer macOS on-demand in the cloud, in new appeal to Apple developers

GeekWire

Amazon Web Services will provide software developers with access to macOS on-demand in the cloud for the first time, promising to speed up the process and reduce the cost of making software for Apple’s computers and devices.