6. Creating a niche of your own | Corey Quinn, The Duckbill Group

Corey Quinn is the Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group and a big celebrity at the AWS circles well known for his sense of humor and unrelenting focus on making some good fun of the cloud providers.

In our interview, we are learning Corey’s background, how The Duckbill Group got started, and how he runs the media side of his business. As usual, we talked about bootstrapping and running consulting services while building a product.

This episode was originally published on the Metacast podcast, episode 32.

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Where to find Corey

• Screaming in the Cloud (podcast)
• Last week in AWS (newsletter)
• AWS Morning Brief (podcast)
• X: @QuinnyPig
• Duckbill Group

Books

• Practical Monitoring: Effective Strategies for the Real World by Mike Julian
• Never Eat Alone by Tahl Raz Keith Ferrazzi

Other references

• Route 53, Amazon’s Premier Database
• Writing New Editions and Ticking All the Boxes with Andreas Wittig
• Metacast Ep. 8 - SquadCast Founders on Remote Collaboration in Podcasts
• Yes, I Test in Production (And So Do You) by Charity Majors

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