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Corey Quinn

2 Nov, 5 tweets, 1 min read

@jesse_derose

Hey @jesse_derose we should do a Twitter Spaces about what it means to be a Cloud Economist.

After all...

I am the very model of a modern Cloud Economist
I’ve seen pricing stored in CSV, Parquet and in a JSON list
I’ve walked the booths of re:Invent, and I know services historical
From SQS to EKS, RDS including Oracle

I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters more contractual,
Both PPAs and EDPs, multi-cloud and all-in fanatical
About data transfer pricing I'm spitting figures fast and furious,
Hmmm... furious... furious... Aha!
While cross-AZ is bad enough, managed NAT Gateways are usurious

I'm very good at sniffing out that wasteful infra smell;
Some days I just use Cost Explorer; others Microsoft Excel:
In short, in architectures both SaaS and 3-tier generalist
I am the very model of a modern Cloud Economist.

I know the service history, from Beanstalk to S3;
I've met the sole remaining customer still using SimpleDB,
They say I cut the bill, but nay--I get it living where it should,
You might think I'm spouting nonsense but I leave that to Dr. Wood.

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Corey Quinn

@QuinnyPig

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So a less-snarky thread about why you should consider working at The @DuckbillGroup as a Cloud Economist.

Because if you fit the role, you definitely have other options...

duckbillgroup.com/careers/

First and most key: we want people to succeed here. That means we act like it, starting with the interview. We don't play games – we interview for strengths rather than the absence of weaknesses. aka "nobody will beat you up about things you're not great at."

If you're working more than 40 hours it's a rarity and we should do something about it. We're fixing AWS bills, not SOME NONSENSE HERE. You aren't your job.

Most of us are parents ourselves; absolutely nothing we do here is more important than our lives.

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In order to help hire some of you (sales and cloud economics roles currently open!), it's me: the Worst Employee as imagined by your company's HR department and resulting policies.
duckbillgroup.com/careers/#open-…

I'm just the right blend of malicious idiot that I should be walked out as soon as I resign; I clearly didn't think to steal any company data BEFORE I resigned.

I'm simultaneously trusted with root in production and not $20 of company money.

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Hello, and welcome to our company's oh-so-very-shitty Security Awareness Training. I'm Chief Cloud Economist Corey Quinn of the Duckbill Group, and I'll be delivering this training for you because I was absolutely NOT the lowest bidder for a change.

The whole point of security awareness is to protect company information. That's what they say, anyway. Here in reality we're going to reference back to the things I spew at you rapid fire and blame you for our institutional shortcomings once we get breached.

Confidentiality is important. Assume that people will read what you write. I know, it's a heavy lift for some of you who haven't figured out that the failure mode of "clever on Twitter" is "being a huge asshole," but pretend it'll be read.

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