There is a specific pressure in a technical field to represent something larger than yourself. To speak as a practitioner, as a community, as a region. I resist this.
I’m one person. I have a day job. I have context that’s shaped by where I’ve worked, who I’ve worked with, and what’s gone wrong on my watch. That context is real and worth sharing. It is not universal.
Why I write under my own name
I could write as “the Covalynt blog” or “AWS UG Mixtli”. I don’t. The opinions here are mine. When I’m wrong — and I’ve been wrong — the correction should attach to me, not to a brand that would have to quietly update the post and hope no one noticed.
This is also why I don’t do predictions. I’ll tell you what I did. I’ll tell you what I learned. I won’t tell you where cloud computing is going in 2027.