Werner Vogels

A T-developer has a number of knowledges in other areas of whether it's computer science, whether it's from the world or whatever.

It's a broader...

a person than just only the database developer.

And I think in the future, this is something that we will continue to harness.

You need to know more.

You need to be able, because how can you communicate with your colleagues that build other parts of the system if you actually don't know anything about what and how they're doing it?

Yeah, and I'm getting old.

I just had a great answer to what you wanted to do.

And I completely lost it.

I do think that we've changed over time as developers.

I mean, I've written VB.

I don't think there's anybody that writes Visual Basic anymore, is there?

Yeah, something like that.

But, you know, it was fun when we were doing it.

And, you know, I wasn't thinking about five databases replicated over five different data centers throughout the world at that particular moment.

I was trying to fix my Excel code.

And so we've all grown as developers over the past 10, 15, 20 years with all sorts of new tools.

We have a new tool.

There is a particular point, a small problem I have with it, is that if you look at all the other tools that we've developed, we took some time to introduce them.

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