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I joined AWS 5 years ago, where I have been working in the South African Public Sector team, primarily with Education customers. With Customer Obsession being one of the core Leadership Principles driving my daily work, I’ll

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A few months ago, I started to build a communications network on a farm in the eastern Free State of South Africa. The farm is very remote, about 30km from the closest small town, 20 minute drive from the nearest tar road,

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Overview

I recently helped an AWS customer design a new system that had very specific non-functional requirements regarding how it integrates with external or 3rd party systems. The internal part of the system was developed as an event-drivensystem, but for these

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I was recently working on a little serverless app - a telegram bot that checks our electricity supply company for the load shedding status, and sends out notifications. Its actually quite simple:

• an AWS Lambda function routinely polls an API for the

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Cloud computing is not a new concept. Amazon Web Services (AWS) was the first to offer cloud services when it launched its Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) storage service in 2006. Gartner estimates that the Cloud computing market could be worth over

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I used to be a voracious reader through primary school and high school, but it kinda stopped somewhere during campus days. I have rekindled it recently, especially with the ability to read on-line (my preference is Google Play Books on Android), although

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‌Legacy corporates are abound, and they see the Internet unicorns stealing their lunch. They know that if you cant beat 'em, then join 'em. So they also want some of the fancy stuff that the Google's and Facebook's are doing, hoping that

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We touched a little on Conways Law when we spoke about the importance of culture in digital transformation. Since then, I have dug deeply into Conways Law - its implications are so profound on technology, and how companies are building products.

Tldr:

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For those of us stuck in the corporate world, only we can identify with the craziness of our daily jobs. Normal people just wont understand what it takes just to get simple things done. It's hard to explain how common sense and

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To successfully implement an API-led organization necessary for Digital Transformation requires more than just technology – it requires a transformation of software development capabilities
Case studies of telcos such as Telstra, KPN and adjacent industries show that the leaders are leveraging inhouse Agile

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