[Weekend Drop] AWS, Cloudflare, and Techbro Therapy on AWS.fm

<p>Listen to AWS.fm: <a href="https://aws.fm/episodes/episode-25-shawn-swyx-wang">https://aws.fm/episodes/episode-25-shawn-swyx-wang</a></p><p>Shawn joins Adam to discuss Amplify and its place in the developer ecosystem, whether we should care about Cloudflare, yet, and how to cope with the anxiety that can come with being extremely online. Also, it sounds like Adam is a tech bro and he's NOT happy about it.</p><p><br><strong><br>Transcript<br></strong><br></p><p>Adam Elmore: Hey, everyone. Welcome to AWS FM, a podcast with guests from around the AWS community. I'm your host, Adam Elmore. And today, I'm joined by Shawn Swyx Wang. Hi, Shawn.</p><p><br>Shawn Wang: Hey, Adam. How's it going?</p><p><br>Adam Elmore: It's going well. I've been extremely excited. I've said this on a ton of podcasts, that I'm excited to get on with a guest, but this has been a long time because before I took my break, I was going to get on with you. Took a big, long break, and I've finally got you on. You're somebody, and I'm going to say a lot of things, I'm very dramatic, but you're somebody that I really admire in the online space. You have this ability to think about things, and distill them, and put them out there in a way that I admire greatly. I'm so excited to have you on here. It's going to be hard for me to stay on any one topic because I have just a list of questions I want to ask you, basically.</p><p><br>Shawn Wang: [inaudible 00:00:52].</p><p><br>Adam Elmore: First, could you tell everyone on this show who you are, just the short version of Shawn?</p><p><br>Shawn Wang: Yeah. So I'm Shawn, born and raised in Singapore, went to The States for college and then spent my first career in finance where I did investment banking and hedge funds. Loved the coding part because every junior finance person starts to learn to code, and didn't like the stress of the finance part, so I pivoted to tech where I was a software engineer at Two Sigma and then I was in developer relations at Netlify, AWS, Temporal, and I've just joined