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In our final episode of the year, Forrest Brazeal talks his journey from home schooling to A Cloud Guru and beyond and performs a special medley of his greatest hits.
Forrest Brazeal is an enterprise cloud architect, speaker, and community advocate. Currently Head Of Content for Google Cloud and prior a senior manager at A Cloud Guru, he spent years designing applications for the cloud at Infor and Trek10. One of the original AWS Serverless Heroes, Forrest was also named one of Jefferson Frank’s Top 7 Global AWS Experts in 2019
Timeline/Topic
00:00 – Opening
00:14 – Introduction to Forrest Brazeal – The Cloud Bard
00:31 – The Journey of Forrest Brazeal
03:01 – Forrest’s love of Sci-Fi Writing
05:30 – A Cloud Guru
09:17 – Does music help you be a better technologist?
11:24 – The Read Aloud Cloud book Forrest wrote. (Link below)
14:43 – Forrest Brazeal explains and does a medley of his Greatest Hits
15:30 – Durably: The Ballad of S3
18:05 – That Sinking Feeling (The #HugOps Song)
21:41 – The Ransomware Song (Just Blame Math)
24:41 – 168 AWS Services in 2 Minutes
31:34 – What work is Forrest most proud of?
Episode Links
https://forrestbrazeal.com/
https://acloudguru.com/blog/author/forrest-brazeal
Forrest’s Youtube (some songs from the episode) – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt5LsaDWTEBY7FThtp37LfQ
Stan Freberg – https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/apr/08/stan-freberg-funny-commercial-parodies
168 AWS Services in 2 Minutes – https://youtu.be/BtJAsvJOlhM
Read Aloud Cloud – https://www.amazon.com/Read-Aloud-Cloud-Innocents-Inside/dp/1119677629/
Cloud Resume Challenge https://cloudresumechallenge.dev/
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