I'm really humbled to see the architecture that we came up with at reddit with help from Heroku and JustinTV, which I then taught to Amazon and AWS, is still the one AWS is highlighting today (and presumably teaching their customers). It's an amazing feeling to see your work live on beyond your involvement.
* They flew me up to Seattle to teach Amazon retail how to move to AWS back when retail had just started that process. Amusingly, the guy mainly responsible for that move now works for Pinterest (a company that "does cloud right").
It was a little odd because I felt like there is no way I could teach these people anything they didn't already know, but I got really good questions and feedback so at the end I didn't feel nearly as weird about it.
* They flew me up to Seattle to teach Amazon retail how to move to AWS back when retail had just started that process. Amusingly, the guy mainly responsible for that move now works for Pinterest (a company that "does cloud right").