Post from March 16, 2016:
This week Jeff Barr announced the 10th anniversary of AWS Cloud and we at Datapipe would like to congratulate them on the immense milestone! Jeff notes:
Looking back at the past decade, it is pretty impressive to see just how much the IT world has changed. Even more impressive, the change is not limited to technology. Business models have changed, as has the language around it. At the same time that changes on the business side have brought about new ways to acquire, consume, and pay for resources (empowering both enterprises and startups in the process), the words that we use to describe what we do have also changed! A decade ago we would not have spoken of the cloud, microservices, serverless applications, the Internet of Things, containers, or lean startups. We would not have practiced continuous integration, continuous delivery, DevOps, or ChatOps. While you are still trying to understand and implement ChatOps, don’t forget that something even newer called VoiceOps (powered by Alexa) is already on the horizon.
Of course, dealing with change is not easy. When looking in to the future, you need to be able to distinguish between flashy distractions and genuine trends, while remaining flexible enough to pivot if yesterday’s niche becomes today’s mainstream technology. I often use JavaScript to illustrate this phenomenon. If you (like me), as a server-side developer initially brushed off JavaScript as a simple, browser-only language and chose to ignore it, you were undoubtedly taken by surprise when it was first used to build rich, dynamic Ajax applications and then run on the server in the form of Node.js.
Today, keeping current means staying abreast of developments in programming languages, system architectures, and industry best practices. It means that you spend time every day improving your current skills and looking for new ones. It means becoming comfortable in a new world where multiple deployments per day are commonplace, powered by global teams, and managed by consensus, all while remaining focused on delivering value to the business!
We at Datapipe couldn’t agree more. One thing we all know for sure, AWS brings amazing growth potential to the cloud market. Did you know Datapipe has believed in the power of AWS from the beginning? In 2010 Datapipe launched the company’s managed services for AWS, transforming the managed service provider industry and defining best practices for public cloud management. Since the launch, Datapipe has been a close AWS partner, bringing public and hybrid cloud solutions and best practices to enterprises around the world.
There have been so many noteworthy highlights from the progress we’ve made since initiating our relationship with AWS 5 years ago. Today we’re proud to say we’ve supported AWS for these past few years and look forward to continuing to do so in the future.
For more articles on the significant AWS milestone:
- http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2016/03/10-lessons-from-10-years-of-aws.html
- https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/ten-years-in-the-aws-cloud-how-time-flies/
- https://aws.amazon.com/10year/
Check out our page here if you’d like to learn more about Datapipe’s relationship with the company. And if you’re unfamiliar with our longstanding relationship with AWS, see here:
