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Cloud and tech commentary from Forrest Brazeal. Click to read Good Tech Things, by Forrest Brazeal, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

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2026 4

  1. How a book (maybe) becomes a movie
  2. A love letter to time travel stories
  3. Paradox, Inc
  4. Speed Trap

2025 6

  1. When everybody's down, nobody is
  2. Harsh truths to save you from ChatGPT psychosis
  3. Breaking some huge personal news
  4. I'm glad I took the off-ramp from software engineering
  5. Notes on Nix
  6. Why are tech people suddenly so into homeschooling?

2024 22

  1. What hath AWS wrought?
  2. The case against living in the Bay Area, for ambitious tech people
  3. Tech the Heck? Archera
  4. Knowledge Worker
  5. The death of the [modified] developer
  6. The end of the Everything Cloud
  7. The case for conferences in 2024
  8. This is what software development looks like now
  9. I made a new cartoon thing for you to try
  10. A tale of two clouds
  11. Closed as unhelpful: an elegy for Stack Overflow
  12. Why didn't one of the big clouds buy HashiCorp?
  13. Is there such a thing as good gatekeeping?
  14. The threat to open source comes from within
  15. The end is Gemi-nigh
  16. Tech the Heck? - CloudTruth
  17. Take on the Kubernetes Resume Challenge
  18. Cynicism is the mind-killer
  19. IaC wars
  20. "Here's the sad state of the cloud"
  21. Google is a giant squid wearing Mickey Mouse gloves
  22. Leaving Google Cloud

2023 3

  1. Wait, is cloud bad?
  2. Calm down about Service Weaver
  3. When programming is gone, will we like what's left?

2022 6

  1. Crimes against cloud: an investigation
  2. The cloud billing risk that scares me most as a developer
  3. A new era of the Cloud Resume Challenge
  4. In pursuit of compute
  5. The cloud project that made headlines
  6. Update on The Best Jobs in Cloud: Jan 2021

2021 23

  1. The best jobs in cloud: Dec 16, 2021
  2. Unfair truth
  3. The best jobs in cloud: Dec 2, 2021
  4. What if...
  5. Supply chain
  6. The best jobs in cloud: Nov 18, 2021
  7. The Arrrs of Migration
  8. Bug taxonomy
  9. The best jobs in cloud: Nov 4, 2021
  10. Digging into that Pokémon GO architecture
  11. Developer equations
  12. The best jobs in cloud: Oct 21, 2021
  13. The best jobs in cloud: Oct 7
  14. The greatest resume I've ever seen
  15. The best jobs in cloud: Sept 23, 2021
  16. Every engineer should do a stint in consulting
  17. The Best Jobs in Cloud: Sept 9, 2021
  18. The best jobs in cloud: Aug 26, 2021
  19. Coming soon: the best jobs in cloud
  20. Why all the songs?
  21. Please fix the AWS Free Tier before somebody gets hurt
  22. Announcing a new thing
  23. You're thinking about docs all wrong

2020 9

  1. The Year in Cloud: 2020
  2. The cold reality of the Kinesis Incident
  3. AWS hearts multi-cloud? It's gonna happen.
  4. What would you say you do here?
  5. You're not ready for feature flags
  6. A war story about COVID, cloud, and cost
  7. The cloud resume challenge
  8. Tech in the time of COVID-19
  9. Code-wise, cloud-foolish

2019 3

  1. Hey AWS - it's time to pay OSS developers.
  2. On building a "personal brand" in tech
  3. Cloud and tech analysis from Forrest Brazeal