2013

    Burroughs Fundraiser for Mazie’s school. Fun event!

    Crowded indoor fundraiser event with guests mingling under chandeliers and draped fabric, purple stage lights in background

    Live auction time. Be careful about raising hand for photo. πŸ˜€

    Crowded indoor fundraiser event with a presenter on stage beside a projected slideshow screen, chandeliers overhead

    Daft Punk β€œGet Lucky” good Burroughs fundraiser tonight.

    Crowded nightclub fundraiser event with blue stage lighting, chandeliers, and colorful projected artwork on the walls

    Fun to finally meet Donnie Berkholz, fittingly at the airport. Looking forward to connecting again soon!

    AWS re:Invent - Day 2

    Great seats for day 2 AWS re:Invent keynote by Amazon CTO Werner Vogels.

    Large conference hall audience facing a stage with a massive screen displaying the AWS re:Invent logo in white and yellow text.

    The kerning on the ’ in the AWS re:Invent font could use some help.

    re:Play party invitation presented by Intel showing date Thursday 8-11pm in Hall D with games libations and live concert

    Amazon releases RDS for PostgreSQL today! Nice!

    Great to watch Werner giving AWS re:Invent keynote.

    Bald presenter in black t-shirt on a large conference stage with AWS re:Invent branding and circuit board design on the screen behind him, audience in foreground

    Wow. New i2 instances are crazy. New c3 instances = super computer on demand. EC2 spot market is revolutionary. Allows a model that has never been available before.

    Amazon Kinesis for managing streaming data. This looks very interesting. I think Amazon Kinesis just revamped a project #TeamSPS is starting right now. Awesome. This Kinesis demo has awesome visuals. AWS Kinesis looks huge.

    Werner Vogels sporting Red Hot Chili Peppers shirt now. Nirvana this morning. My guess is for tonight shirt? Foo Fighters.

    Attending the Kinesis introduction session at AWS re:Invent. Kinesis for stock market data seems like such an awesome fit. I’m guessing Stephen Orban and Dow Jones are already testing. πŸ˜€ Kinesis streams != Queues.

    Saying goodbye to AWS re:Invent and heading home. Really happy I came. Fun things ahead for #TeamSPS!

    A giant frog is singing over an artificial waterfall. Only in Vegas.

    Cartoon frog figure peering over a curved wall above a glowing blue pool, surrounded by trees lit in blue and green at night.

    Seriously, this should be illegal. This from the Wynn in Las Vegas.

    The use of this service is $13.99 for 24 hours and will be billed to your room. Guests paying our daily resort fee will automatically have their internet charges removed from the final bill.

    White text on dark background stating internet service costs 13.99 per 24 hours but is waived with the daily resort fee.

    And no, I did not pay the fee.

    AWS re:Invent - Day 1

    Ready for AWS re:Invent!

    AWS re:Invent conference badge for Jamie Thingelstad from SPS Commerce, held by a hand against a dark background.

    Perhaps the largest dining hall ever. AWS re:Invent

    Panoramic view of a vast convention center dining hall filled with hundreds of attendees seated at round tables with red chairs.

    Great seat for AWS re:Invent keynote.

    Large conference hall packed with hundreds of seated attendees facing two large screens showing the AWS re:Invent logo and a live tweet display

    Rob Krystyniak, @maas_8128,@zwingocom, @LukeSamaha, @scottbjer, and @pixelsnbits πŸ‘ #TeamSPS ready for AWS re:Invent keynote!

    Group of six colleagues wearing conference lanyards seated in rows at an AWS re:Invent keynote hall, smiling at the camera

    β€œwe are finally data center free!” quote from AWS re:Invent

    9,000 attendees from 57 countries. AWS re:Invent

    Amazon Workspaces. Huh.

    Great to see former colleagues at Dow Jones getting highlighted at AWS re:Invent! Congrats all!

    Amazon AppStream looks interesting.

    Tradeworx segment of #awsreinvent keynote is mind blowing.

    Terabyte of data added a day to S3.

    This graph shows the power of AWS.

    Conference presentation slide showing a graph of 1780000 AWS core hours with a 952000 peak, scaling more than 200 percent month-over-month, then archived to Glacier, with silhouetted audience in

    Attending Big Data: State of the Union session by Paul Duffy at AWS re:Invent.

    Morning keynote at AWS re:Invent was great. Hit right topics. Expanded thinking.

    Crap. Phone is at 12% battery already! Argh.

    Love the Amazon Public Datasets and Big Open Data effort. Great stuff.

    You could make a lot of $$$ selling precharged battery packs for phones at #awsreinvent.

    I don’t know what’s more impressive: AWS scaling or the dining service feeding 9,000 people.

    Pro tip for those in #awsreinvent dining hangar and trying to find people. The pillars have numbers.

    At session about Amazon Redshift at #awsreinvent with Rob Krystyniak.

    Going to Netflix Development Patterns for Rapid Iteration, Scale, Performance & Availability session at AWS re:Invent next.

    Someone should make a twitter client optimized for conferences.

    Netflix red, black and blue systems concept is very smart. Did something similar at Dow Jones but no blue concept.

    I think it might finally be time to move all my personal web stuff to AWS.

    Guys in suit coats playing ping pong at #awsreinvent Dev Lounge.

    Bald man in a suit playing ping-pong inside a large conference hall with a Developer Lounge glass enclosure and AWS Support signs visible behind him.

    Fun running into @jondahl at AWS re:Invent!

    AWS re:Invent - Day 0

    Looking forward to joining other #teamsps folks at AWS re:Invent!

    I’m not sure why, but I always find it a little sad to fly out at night.

    AWS re:Invent iOS app could use some help. πŸ˜• just not as useful as it should be.

    Installing English β†’ Russian dictionaries on my iPhone for trip to Kharkiv, Ukraine in a couple of weeks.

    Tammy and I hanging out with Ira Glass! πŸ˜€

    Three people posing for a selfie indoors, smiling and laughing, one wearing glasses and a black blazer, one in a red plaid shirt, one in front making a surprised face. Two men smiling and posing together, one wearing glasses and a dark blazer, the other in a red plaid shirt giving a thumbs up.

    Need Dogwood Coffee beans. Stop at Urban Bean Coffee. Get a delicious macchiato. Repeat as needed.

    Macchiato with leaf latte art in a white cup and saucer on a dark cafe counter
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