Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 31, 2023

What Adrian Did Next — Part 3 — eBay — 2004 to 2007 I’d left Sun (part 2 in this series) , and had a few months off over the summer, so (of course) got married to @laurelco, bought a “fixer upper” house in the Los Gatos mountains, and worked on getting it tidied up. The whole company was a few hundred people.

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. s Dynamo technology , which was one of the first non-relational databases developed at Amazon. This was not our technology vendorsâ?? All Things Distributed.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Today marks the 10 year anniversary of Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper , a milestone that made me reflect on how much innovation has occurred in the area of databases over the last decade and a good reminder on why taking a customer obsessed approach to solving hard problems can have lasting impact beyond your original expectations.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 7, 2013

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. s fast and easy scalability can be quickly applied to building high scale applications. We have also reduced our underlying costs through significant technical innovations from our engineering team. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I really enjoyed the variety of working with several different customers every day, on different problems, and being part of an extremely innovative and fast growing company. I also learned a lot about how to work directly with customers, when to shut up and let the sales guy drive the conversation, and generally how technology sales works.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Fast-forward 30 years, and website technology has changed significantly — we have images, stylesheets, JavaScript, streaming video, AJAX, animation, WebSockets, WebGL, rounded corners in CSS — the list goes on. It took ideas from Nanoc and pushed them even further with two significant innovations: Front matter. Blog aware.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

​​ With new ​​ innovations ​​ come ​​ new terms, designs, ​​ and ​​ algorithms. ​​ The larger sector sizes involve newer technology and require API changes at the operating system level.

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