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What To Be Thankful For In Tech In 2020

Trying times sometimes make us take things for granted. This Thanksgiving, take a step back and be thankful for all the wonderful tech you use on a daily basis.

Allen Helton
4 min readNov 29, 2020

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We are obviously in unprecedented times. Our routines are thrown off, our friendships are thrown off, our lives are thrown off.

When we’re thrown off, it can be difficult to remember the things that make us happy. The things that delight us. The things that make us….us.

With Thanksgiving and the holidays approaching, now is a great time to slow things down and reflect on what has gotten us through one of the hardest years in modern history.

So I’d like to share some of the things in tech that I appreciate now more than ever. Things that make me happy.

Tech Communities

Historically, I’ve never really been one for online communities. The idea wasn’t necessarily a bad one, but it never spoke to me.

Now that I spend the majority of my social interactions over a webcam, I’ve warmed up to the concept and I have never been more thankful!

Between becoming an AWS Community Builder, being heavily involved in the Postman community, and…

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Allen Helton
Allen Helton

Written by Allen Helton

I am an AWS serverless hero with a strong focus on API design and standardization, event-driven architectures, and software automation.

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