Farewell AWS
The author reflects on their departure from AWS, expressing gratitude for the support received from colleagues. They share fond memories and lessons learned from various coworkers during their four-year tenure. The post serves as a farewell and acknowledgment of the relationships built at the company.
- ▪The author was surprised by the positive response to their post about being fired from AWS.
- ▪They express appreciation for the friendships and professional growth experienced during their time at the company.
- ▪The author highlights specific colleagues and the impact they had on their career and personal development.
Hacker News (Newest) files mainly under programming. We currently carry 5,305 of its stories.
Story provenance
Source · retrieval · rights · ranking — open for full record
inspect →
Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | Adventures in Open Source Software |
| Canonical URL | https://www.adventuresinoss.com/farewell-aws/ |
| Publication time | Sat, 30 May 2026 05:00:36 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-30T05:12:05.787Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-30T05:12:05.787Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | None |
| Cluster logic | Not yet clustered, or no peer story found in the clustering window. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
AWS Farewell AWS May 29, 2026 13 minute read Wow. I really didn’t expect my post about being fired from AWS to get as much traction as it did, but verklempt doesn’t even begin to describe my feelings. The outpouring of support on LinkedIn was humbling, and the fact someone posted it on Hacker News and that it hit number one, however briefly, allowed me to check off a bucket list item. I don’t have a screenshot of that but I do have the email from my hosting provider warning me about a spike in traffic. (grin) I didn’t even really want to write that post, but my mild OCD wouldn’t let me skip it since I did a two year and a three year anniversary post. Gotta be consistent.
…
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Adventures in Open Source Software.
Discussion
0 commentsMore from Adventures in Open Source Software
