Operation Merry Christmas

What surprises you most about the community builders program?

The people, I mean - I've had the pleasure of meeting community builders live at two ReInvents now. Both times these guys amaze me. We're all givers, not takers.

The warm hearted welcome and inclusion, and crazy ideas that we come up with when put together.

It keeps surprising me time after time.

What’s your background and your experience with AWS?

I've got some 23+ years of IT career behind me, started out at a helpdesk on an ISP, went on to Linux system administration and datacenter management at the next ISP, and after cloud became the thing - left old style datacenters - to work with someone else's datacenter.

AWS experience for 8+years, 5 and 1/2 years fully just in cloud.

I love working with datacenters, specially someone else's. I don't anymore have to care if the A/C works or not, someone does it for me.

What’s the biggest benefit you see from the program?

This pretty much circles around to my answer to the first question, the people, the community. I hope to see more of all you guys. Not to mention any by name, but you guys know who you are - taking part in this operation.

What’s the next swag item that you would like to get?

I'm not a big fan of swag, as it a lot of time tends to be something not so usable. So took me a while to think of what would be useful, a travel power adapter would be great. Something that adapts to power my devices from all sockets around the world.

Or maybe invite to some live community event. Maybe one on every continent?

What are you eating for dinner today? Share the recipe!

Dinner tonite, impossible to say - but I know I will be baking before Christmas, so want to share my favourite pie at the moment - the version I make of Key Lime Pie.

Ingredients:

Base:
200g digestive cookies
75g melted butter

Filling:
4-7 fresh limes
5 egg yokes
1 can condensed milk

On top:
2dl whipping cream
1 1/2 tee spoons sugar
1 1/2 tee spoons vanilja sugar
1 lime

What to do:

Base:
Crush the cookies in a blender, melt butter and combine with cookiecrumble. Spread onto a cake pan, covering the bottom and 1,5cm from the sides.
Preface in 150 celcius for 10min, while preparing the filling.

Filling:
Wash the limes, and grate the peel. Squeeze the juice into a cup (you'll need about 1dl in total, doesn't hurt to put more).
Separate the egg yokes.
Combine all ingredients in a bowl and whisk em together.
Put the filing into the cake pan.

Cook at 150 celsius for 15minutes, let the pie cool in room temperature, and then put it into refrigerator for 3h or overnight.

Topping:
Whisk the cream with the sugars, grate lime peel for nice visual on top of the whipped cream while plating.

Enjoy.

Is there anything else you would like to say about the community builders program in 2022?

I hope it'll continue in 2023, and the next years. And that I'll have a chance to participate even more.

Big thanks to the AWS team working with us.

And Merry Christmas.