Thank you for visiting my personal website. My name is Neal Gamradt and I have been in the web industry since the late 1990s. I am passionate about this industry and love what I do. Currently, I spend most of my day working with cloud services and reviewing cloud architecture changes as a Principal Software Engineer. I enjoy playing with Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment/Continuous Configuration (CI/CD/CC) solutions, Infrastructure as Code (IaC). Container Services, Serverless, Feature Flags, CDNs, and GitOps.
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At re:Invent 2024, I attended many different sessions. In this post I will summarize what I learned in the “Proof of Concept to Production: How Amazon Scales with GenAI” session.
During the re:Invent 2024 conference, I was able to attend the keynotes for Matt Garman and Dr. Werner Vogels. There was a lot of great information presented at both keynotes. In this post, I will go over some of the highlights.
This year was my fifth time attending Amazon Web Services (AWS) re:Invent. I have previously attended in 2018, 2019, 2021, and 2022. The re:Invent 2024 conference was the best I have attended, and part of the reason is due to how prepared I was this time.