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Hey, I'm Lou
I've been in the software industry for over 10 years now. This blog started back in 2018 when I wrote a post about how to learn AWS for beginners—after running a training at work where I realised just how hard AWS is to learn when you're starting out. Hundreds of services, endless documentation, and everyone has a different opinion on where to begin. It's overwhelming.
That post started getting thousands of hits, and I've been answering people's questions ever since. Since then, I've written over 150 articles and started a YouTube channel that now has 11,000 subscribers. People seem to like it.
These days I'm just motivated by helping people out and sharing what I've learned along the way.
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