Brain drain is terminal for a technology product (most of the time). In the short term I’ll focus on making our products portable (migrating ec2 init scripts to docker, using frameworks for server less instead of using direct apis etc…). And when the time comes switch to whatever is best.

Maybe it’s time to consider alternative cloud providers at work. AWS is pretty good but they’re going to alienate a ton of talented engineers by doing this.

Google’s presentation software is on par, if not better than Office, especially for embedded YouTube/videos for demos.

MS used to have a large moat on office suite functionality. But Gdocs has largely closed the gap.

Google Docs is fast becoming the standard office suite in a lot of organizations.