AWS Distinguished Eng: Learning From 3000 Incidents And How Engineering Is Changing | Marc Brooker

The Peterman Pod

Apr 13, 2026•1 hr 12 min

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In this episode, I talked to Marc Brooker, a distinguished engineer at AWS who started there as a new grad and rose through the ranks. We discussed technical learnings from 3,000+ cloud system postmortems, how software engineering is changing with AI, how to find impactful problems and much more.

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𝗣𝗼𝗱𝗰𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗸𝘀:

• YouTube: https://youtu.be/u3GjIXP9N0s

• Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1qX2GfpbzxzGpGvDZVINdO?si=wsDGZo9PTbCNalKVybFVnA

• Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-peterman-pod/id1777363835

• Transcript: https://www.developing.dev/p/aws-distinguished-eng-learnings-from

𝗘𝗽𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗱𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗸𝘀:

• Post we discussed on hobbies and apparent expertise: https://brooker.co.za/blog/2023/04/20/hobbies.html

• Post on software engineering changing: https://brooker.co.za/blog/2026/02/07/you-are-here.html

• Post about Senior engineers and AI: https://brooker.co.za/blog/2026/03/20/ic-leadership.html

• Post on Junior engineers and AI: https://brooker.co.za/blog/2026/03/25/ic-junior.html

𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗺𝗽𝘀: