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AWS Distinguished Eng: Learning From 3000 Incidents And How Engineering Is Changing | Marc Brooker

2026-04-13 ยท 72 min ยท 21 entities

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    Link in episode "AWS Distinguished Eng: Learning From 3000 Incidents And How Engineering Is Changing | Marc Brooker": https://brooker.co.za/blog/2023/04/20/hobbies.html
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    Link in episode "AWS Distinguished Eng: Learning From 3000 Incidents And How Engineering Is Changing | Marc Brooker": https://brooker.co.za/blog
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    Link in episode "AWS Distinguished Eng: Learning From 3000 Incidents And How Engineering Is Changing | Marc Brooker": https://developing.dev/
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    Link in episode "AWS Distinguished Eng: Learning From 3000 Incidents And How Engineering Is Changing | Marc Brooker": https://tiktok.com/@ryanlpeterman
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    Link in episode "AWS Distinguished Eng: Learning From 3000 Incidents And How Engineering Is Changing | Marc Brooker": https://kickstarter.com/projects/ryanlpeterman/compose-simple-ergonomics-beautifully-done
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    Link in episode "AWS Distinguished Eng: Learning From 3000 Incidents And How Engineering Is Changing | Marc Brooker": https://developing.dev/p/aws-distinguished-eng-learnings-from
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    Link in episode "AWS Distinguished Eng: Learning From 3000 Incidents And How Engineering Is Changing | Marc Brooker": https://brooker.co.za/blog/2026/03/20/ic-leadership.html
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    Link in episode "AWS Distinguished Eng: Learning From 3000 Incidents And How Engineering Is Changing | Marc Brooker": https://kickstarter.com/projects/ryanlpeterman/compose-simple-ergonomics-beautifully-done
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    Link in episode "AWS Distinguished Eng: Learning From 3000 Incidents And How Engineering Is Changing | Marc Brooker": https://developing.dev/p/aws-distinguished-eng-learnings-from
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    Link in episode "AWS Distinguished Eng: Learning From 3000 Incidents And How Engineering Is Changing | Marc Brooker": https://developing.dev/p/aws-distinguished-eng-learnings-from
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    Link in episode "AWS Distinguished Eng: Learning From 3000 Incidents And How Engineering Is Changing | Marc Brooker": https://brooker.co.za/blog/2026/03/20/ic-leadership.html
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    Link in episode "AWS Distinguished Eng: Learning From 3000 Incidents And How Engineering Is Changing | Marc Brooker": https://brooker.co.za/blog/2026/03/25/ic-junior.html

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    Link in episode "AWS Distinguished Eng: Learning From 3000 Incidents And How Engineering Is Changing | Marc Brooker": https://brooker.co.za/blog/2023/04/20/hobbies.html
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    Link in episode "AWS Distinguished Eng: Learning From 3000 Incidents And How Engineering Is Changing | Marc Brooker": https://brooker.co.za/blog
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    Link in episode "AWS Distinguished Eng: Learning From 3000 Incidents And How Engineering Is Changing | Marc Brooker": https://developing.dev/
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    Link in episode "AWS Distinguished Eng: Learning From 3000 Incidents And How Engineering Is Changing | Marc Brooker": https://threads.com/@ryanlpeterman
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    Link in episode "AWS Distinguished Eng: Learning From 3000 Incidents And How Engineering Is Changing | Marc Brooker": https://brooker.co.za/blog/2023/04/20/hobbies.html
  • references Blog website
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    Link in episode "AWS Distinguished Eng: Learning From 3000 Incidents And How Engineering Is Changing | Marc Brooker": https://brooker.co.za/blog
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    Link in episode "AWS Distinguished Eng: Learning From 3000 Incidents And How Engineering Is Changing | Marc Brooker": https://developing.dev/
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In this episode, I talked to Marc Brooker, a distinguished engineer at AWS who started there as a new grad and rose through the ranks. We discussed technical learnings from 3,000+ cloud system postmortems, how software engineering is changing with AI, how to find impactful problems and much more. ๐Ÿ”ถ My keyboard Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ryanlpeterman/compose-simple-ergonomics-beautifully-done ๐—ฃ๐—ผ๐—ฑ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐˜€๐˜ ๐—น๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ธ๐˜€: โ€ข YouTube: https://youtu.be/u3GjIXP9N0s โ€ข Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1qX2GfpbzxzGpGvDZVINdO?si=wsDGZo9PTbCNalKVybFVnA โ€ข Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-peterman-pod/id1777363835 โ€ข Transcript: https://www.developing.dev/p/aws-distinguished-eng-learnings-from ๐—˜๐—ฝ๐—ถ๐˜€๐—ผ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ ๐—น๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ธ๐˜€: โ€ข Post we discussed on hobbies and apparent expertise: https://brooker.co.za/blog/2023/04/20/hobbies.html โ€ข Post on software engineering changing: https://brooker.co.za/blog/2026/02/07/you-are-here.html โ€ข Post about Senior engineers and AI: https://brooker.co.za/blog/2026/03/20/ic-leadership.html โ€ข Post on Junior engineers and AI: https://brooker.co.za/blog/2026/03/25/ic-junior.html ๐—ง๐—ถ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฎ๐—บ๐—ฝ๐˜€: 0:00 - Intro 1:27 - Finding problems that matter 11:42 - Learnings from 3000 postmortems 23:58 - Why caches are bad 29:37 - How AI will change software engineering 36:49 - Advice for junior engineers given AI 44:02 - Thoughts for senior engineers 49:59 - Why engineers should write 57:51 - Visibility and apparent expertise 1:04:23 - AWS engineers he admires 1:06:53 - Technical book recommendations 1:09:06 - Advice for his younger self 1:10:37 - Outro ๐—ช๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐˜๐—ผ ๐—ณ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐— ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฐ: โ€ข LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marc-brooker-b431772b/ โ€ข Twitter/X: https://x.com/MarcJBrooker โ€ข Personal Blog: https://brooker.co.za/blog/ ๐—ช๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐˜๐—ผ ๐—ณ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—ฅ๐˜†๐—ฎ๐—ป: โ€ข Newsletter: https://www.developing.dev/ โ€ข X/Twitter: https://x.com/ryanlpeterman โ€ข LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanlpeterman/ โ€ข Threads: https://www.threads.com/@ryanlpeterman โ€ข Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ryanlpeterman โ€ข TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ryanlpeterman