Corey Quinn
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- Devopsdays Boston2 editions2016–2017
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- Adam Mckaigonce
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- Federico Fregosi9 talks
- Ram Iyengar34 talks
- Pete Cheslock5 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| RDS is Crap | Percona Live 2026 Bay Area | 2026-05-27 |
RDS charges per-IO billing (about $0.20 per million IOs) and an IO‑optimized tier that raises instance and storage costs ~25%, making monthly bills… | ||
| Keynote: AI Speaks Terraform Like a Tourist | IaCConf 2026 | 2026-05-14 |
AI produces Terraform that is syntactically fine but often wrong — about 30% broken — because it trains on Stack Overflow, old tutorials and vendor docs so it… | ||
| YOUR AI DOESN'T KNOW WHAT THINGS COST | AI SRE Summit 2026 | 2026-05-12 |
A cautionary pattern: proofs of concept use big models and cheap staging but ship unchanged to production, producing 200,000 tokens per diagnosis at $1–$5 each… | ||
| Lightning Talks | SREcon25 Americas | 2025-03-25 |
Seven seven mini-stories deliver concrete takeaways not platitudes: quitting tech to train as an EMT teaches that hands‑on emergency work builds confidence for… | ||
| Scam or Savings? A Cloud vs. On-Prem Economic Slapfight | SREcon24 Americas | 2024-03-18 |
Argues that cloud is usually chosen for speed and features, not lower cost, and that moving back on‑prem is rare except for small proofs of concept or… | ||
| Lightning Talks | SREcon24 Americas | 2024-03-18 |
Nine micro-updates: cognition research shows experts use recognition and mental simulation with limits of three moving parts and ~six steps so planning lets… | ||
| Terrible Ideas in Kubernetes | KCD Los Angeles 2024 | 2024-03-14 |
Built a Kubernetes control plane on 10 Raspberry Pi cluster to avoid cloud billing, observes the control plane costs ~ $0.10/hr (rises to $0.60/hr for extended… | ||
| POST No AWS Bills: Cloud Cost Optimization without APIs | LISA19 | 2019-10-28 |
Claims that off‑the‑shelf cloud cost tools fail to capture real business insight, backed by hands‑on experiments: a netcat + dd experiment exposes… | ||
| SRE Theory vs. Practice: A Song of Ice and TireFire | SREcon18 Europe/Middle East/Africa | 2018-08-29 |
A postmortem of polished conference rhetoric vs messy reality: a touted “perfect” SRE setup actually hides chaos engineering used as blame insurance… | ||
| The Myth of Cloud Agnosticism | SREcon18 Europe/Middle East/Africa | 2018-08-29 |
Argues that true cloud agnosticism rarely exists: a survey of ~1,000 readers shows CloudFormation 43% / Terraform 41% and most companies run one primary cloud… | ||
| Corey Quinn, Last Week in AWS | ServerlessConf 2018 | ServerlessConf 2018 San Francisco | 2018-07-29 |
Discussion argues serverless moves from toy to production, highlights a real-world adoption split between cautious pilot projects and full rewrites, and names… | ||
| "Don't You Know Who I Am?!" The Danger of Celebrity in Tech | LISA17 | 2017-10-29 |
Talk argues that copying famous companies without context fails; cites Netflix has developers with root in production and explains why that works only with… | ||
| Terrible Ideas In Lambda | DevOpsDays Boston 2017 | 2017-09-18 |
Calls out concrete limits and outcomes: Lambda fails for big stateful bundles above 75 MB, times out at 500 seconds, and can produce explosive concurrency (one… | ||
| And the CFO Wept: AWS Cost Control | SREcon17 Europe/Middle East/Africa | 2017-08-30 |
Tells how AWS bills balloon with concrete fixes: run a tagging audit to tag everything so finance can allocate costs; buy Reserved Instances to cut ~20% with… | ||
| This Conference Will Pay For Itself... | DevOpsDays Boston 2016 | 2016-08-25 |
Practical negotiation steps for changing jobs: establish market rate from peers and Glassdoor, delay money talk until ask as late as possible, never be first… | ||
| Terrible Ideas in Git | LinuxCon + ContainerCon North America 2016 | 2016-08-22 |
Commits include a doomed ubuntu.iso 173MB that bloats .git and proves Git will happily store large binaries; fixes shown are git annex or git LFS and history… | ||
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