91. Our Journeys into Software and AWS
AWS Bites
In this episode, we take a journey through time and technology and learn the origin stories of Eoin and Luciano. In this captivating discussion, they share their paths into the world of software development and their eventual immersion into the realm of Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Eoin's story begins in the early days of home computing, where he tinkered with a Spectrum ZX, coding programs and saving them on audio cassettes. He walks us through his computer science studies, securing his first jobs, and his initial encounters with AWS, where skepticism eventually turned into fascination.
Meanwhile, Luciano shares his first magical encounter with a computer, igniting his passion for programming, and his subsequent journey into computer science and early work experiences. Moving to Ireland opened doors to work on pioneering cloud projects, leading him to develop tools like Middy and eventually join fourTheorem.
The episode delves into their experiences with serverless architecture, solo startups, and how they would approach learning differently if given the chance to do it all again.
Join us for a nostalgic, inspiring, and educational episode as we explore the captivating stories that shaped our expertise in the world of AWS.
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🔖 Chapters:
00:00 Intro 00:50 Eoin's story: The early days with a Spectrum ZX coding on Audio cassettes 02:58 Eoin's story: Studying computer science and getting the first jobs 04:36 Eoin's story: Getting into AWS... slowly! 05:38 Eoin's story: Adopting serverless while building a solo-startup 06:32 Luciano's story: the first computer 08:14 Luciano's story: discovering qBasic 09:49 Luciano's story: high school fun, studying computer science and first work experiences 10:50 Luciano's story: moving to Ireland and working on Cloud projects 12:04 Luciano's story: building Middy 13:06 Luciano's story: more cloud experiences eventually leading to fourTheorem 15:05 How would we learn today if we could go back and do everything again? 21:10 Closing notes
In this episode, we mentioned the following resources:
- Gorillas videogame (GORILLAS.BAS): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorillas_(video_game)
- Middy Lambda framework for Node.js: https://middy.js.org/
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