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Why don't AWS people actively contribute in HN discussions about their achievements? There're 8 comments on this thread and 3 of them are from GCP people givin

• boulos 9y ago
  Glad you appreciate it! Jon and I both just like explaining and clarifying. In this case he did actual work, and along with Jake and others deserve the credit (I rarely contribute directly to Compute Engine these days, but I still pretend like I can explain what Jon and others do). I don't begrudge the folks that prefer to work silently. I'm not adding the names of any people who worked on this (and there are many!) but perhaps don't want to be publicly visible. I assume that's why there are less AWS folks for their launches here, and it's a purely personal decision. You also might be biased since Jon and I are particularly loud and slack off a lot at work :). Fwiw, please call us out if you think we're straying into Sales/Marketing. That's not the intent, and part of why I make sure to put the disclosure on my posts. Clearly, Cloud is a business, but I'm (still) an engineer. My goal is that we should build an excellent product, and hopefully that convinces you or others to use it. If it's not excellent, keep complaining until we improve! Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.
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