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In improv, we have to react
and think on our feet.

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Sometimes you have to respond
to something completely unexpected.

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Say yes, show up, start anywhere.

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Pay attention, make mistakes.

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These are some of the core ideas I focus on
as an improviser that may sound like it has

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nothing to do with being a good software
developer, but it actually helps me pivot

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quickly when I encounter a problem.

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What this should be giving us
is a much cleaner workflow.

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We're meeting with our customer care team regularly
to make sure that we're giving them

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what they actually want. Better analytics.

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You set up your server, you run the install
script, and then whenever you want to do an

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update, you're on the update script and you
keep modifying that server over time.

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While developing software solutions
for our partners,

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I've come to appreciate the value
of iterating quickly and failing fast.

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Forget everything you have and like, oh, if we
want to build this right the first way,

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here's how we would have done it, or is
it easier to iterate from what you've got?

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The one platform that I found to be flexible
enough to keep up with our partners changing

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needs, his Amazon Web Services.

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I know partners want to get their products to
customers quickly and AWS is my go to for

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that because it provides them
with the best speed to value.

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With automated testing and version control on AWS.
I'm able to provide both agility

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and quality, which means lower
costs for our partner.

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Every day I strive to seize the moment and
the work my team does reflects that mindset.

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We're ready for anything. I'm Darren Webb and
I'm a certified AWS developer associate at

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Source Allies.