Episode 97 - The Cloud Bard with Google's Forrest Brazeal

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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