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Sep 2024
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#685: [Beyond the API] Colm MacCárthaigh

Amazon Web Services
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In this conversation, Simon Elisha interviews Colm MacCárthaigh, Vice President and Distinguished Engineer at AWS, about his background in technology and his work at Amazon. They discuss topics such as Colm's first computer, his role in building the European sovereign cloud, and his involvement in the creation of the S2N open-source library for TLS and SSL p ... Show More
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