

Lee Atchison
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Lee Atchison is a software architect, author, and public speaker, and a recognized thought leader on the topics of cloud computing and application modernization. His most recent book, Architecting for Scale (O’Reilly Media), is an essential resource for technical teams looking to maintain high availability and manage risk in their cloud environments. Lee has been widely quoted in multiple technology publications and has been a featured speaker at events across the globe. Lee has more than three decades of industry experience, including seven years at Amazon, where he built the company’s Elastic Beanstalk service. In addition, Lee built Amazon’s first software download store and led its retail website’s early migration to a service-based architecture. Lee also spent eight years at observability software provider New Relic, helping grow the company’s product architecture from early startup stage to the large enterprise SaaS business it is today. Lee is also the author of the operational framework STOSA, which helps companies modernize and scale their organizations in a modern world. Lee provides consulting services for organizations that want to modernize and move their applications into the cloud. To book a consultation with Lee or check out his other books, courses, articles, and speaking sessions, visit Twitter and LinkedIn.

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