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.
Brendan Gregg
MARCH 16, 2024
As my former Sun Microsystems colleague Eric Schrock (nickname Schrock) wrote in November 2004 : "On i386, you at least had the advantage of increasing the number of usable registers by 20%. We may get there with future technologies I'll cover later. But I'd rather the cost be zero, of course!
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Brendan Gregg
JUNE 3, 2021
I'd seen some amazing technologies from Sun, but I'd never seen a developer on a world tour. This was an important innovation by Sun Microsystems, a US-based multinational company worth billions. Ah-hah – this must be the internal project! But this would be no ordinary project.
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.
Brendan Gregg
JUNE 3, 2021
I'd seen some amazing technologies from Sun, but I'd never seen a developer on a world tour. This was an important innovation by Sun Microsystems, a US-based multinational company worth billions. Ah-hah – this must be the internal project! But this would be no ordinary project.
All Things Distributed
OCTOBER 25, 2018
AWS has been an active member of the local technology community since 2004. That's where we built many pioneering networking technologies, our next-generation software for customer support, and the technology behind our compute service, Amazon EC2. This has helped unearth innovative startups like Asoriba.
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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