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Andrew Meredith

Great questions! I originally started writing this book under a deal with a publishing company and got about halfway through the manuscript at that point. I ended up having to back out of that deal due to both personal circumstances and the requirement to re-work the format of the book so that it could go into a different series than I was originally writing for. I felt pretty burned out and dropped the project entirely for a couple of years. When I came back to finish the second half of the book, I had way less free time than when I had first started it, and it was a huge challenge to finish it up.
I would definitely recommend the process if you have blocks of time to dedicate to it! What is the book that you have started?

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Tim McNamara

Congratulations for persevering Andrew. Not many people would have done so.

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Erik Lundevall Zara

Thanks for the response!
I will be able to carve out some dedicated time soon, moving forward - so far it has been some droplets of time only, which has been a challenge.

My book is going to be about establishing ways of working for getting clean and structured cloud infrastructure usage, focused on AWS. The aim is to provide hands-on advice.