Adrian Cockcroft

AUGUST 1, 2022

I’m doing occasional presentations and will be attending conferences, in-between road trips and vacations, (including to visit family in the UK near the photo shown above), and I look forward to keeping in contact with old friends and colleagues.

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Scalegrid

APRIL 2, 2019

We found the answers at the Postgres Conference in March where we surveyed PostgreSQL users, contributors, and SQL and NoSQL database administrators alike. Private Cloud vs. Public Cloud vs. Hybrid Cloud. of our respondents are hosting PostgreSQL in on-premise private clouds, where only 34.8%

Database 185

Database Cloud Open Source Azure 185

Dynatrace

MARCH 8, 2022

Modern observability that helps teams securely regain control of complex, dynamic, ever-expanding cloud environments can be game-changing. At the conference, Dynatrace made several announcements to empower its game-changing community of engineers, developers and security pros. They’re really getting more of a system.”?. Learn more!

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2022

As cloud-native, distributed architectures proliferate, the need for DevOps technologies and DevOps platform engineers has increased as well. Belgian engineer Patrick Debois coined the term “DevOps” in 2009 when he needed a Twitter hashtag for DevOpsDays, an agile systems administrators conference in Europe. Atlassian Jira.

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Dynatrace

MAY 26, 2021

From May 17 to May 18, 2021, the Open-Source Engineering team at Dynatrace attended the virtual observability conference, o11yfest. The two-day conference offered two tracks: One dedicated to the business value of OpenTelemetry observability, where we got an insight into use cases from Skyscanner, HBE Digital, and Logz.io, to name a few.

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High Scalability

APRIL 3, 2019

We found the answers at the Postgres Conference in March where we surveyed PostgreSQL users, contributors, and SQL and NoSQL database administrators alike. Private Cloud vs. Public Cloud vs. Hybrid Cloud. So what makes PostgreSQL so special, and how is it being used today?

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Database Cloud Open Source Systems 177

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 1, 2016

In my keynote at AWS re:Invent today, I announced 13 new features and services (in addition to the 15 we announced yesterday). At AWS, we want to be the Q for developers, giving them the super-powered tools and services with deep features in the Cloud. We launched the following new services and features today to help.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

At the 2024 Dynatrace Perform conference in Las Vegas, Michael Winkler, senior principal product management at Dynatrace, ran a technical session exploring just some of the many ways in which Dynatrace helps to automate the processes around development, releases, and operation. Dynatrace® Clouds app.

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Dynatrace

MAY 26, 2021

From May 17 to May 18, 2021, the Open-Source Engineering team at Dynatrace attended the virtual observability conference, o11yfest. The two-day conference offered two tracks: One dedicated to the business value of OpenTelemetry observability, where we got an insight into use cases from Skyscanner, HBE Digital, and Logz.io, to name a few.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Globally, the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB), established at the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, has developed requirements for climate-related disclosure. Some interesting facts: Moving a workload to the cloud can reduce its carbon footprint by up to 96%. Average cloud server idle time exceeds 70%.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Today we are kicking off AWS re:Invent 2013. Over the course of the next three days, we will host more than 200 sessions, training bootcamps, and hands on labs taught by expert AWS staff as well as dozens of our customers. Tune in to hear the latest from AWS and our customers. Look forward to seeing you around the conference.'

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All Things Distributed

JULY 17, 2013

AWS re:Invent 2013. The AWS re:Invent user conference last year in Las Vegas was by many described as the best technology conference they had been to in a long time. We had worked hard to give you great keynote sessions as well as deep technical content by AWS engineers, partners and customers. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

MAY 19, 2017

Soon after the launch of Amazon Relation Dabase Service (RDS) AWS customers were giving us feedback that they would love to migrate to RDS but what they would love even more was if we could also unshackle them from the high-cost, punitive licensing schemes that came with the proprietary databases.

Database 117

Database Design Cloud Storage 117

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., In case you are interested, at the same conference I also gave a talk on [BPF Internals]. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 140

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

This included SysAdmin magazine, which contained articles from various experts including Amy Rich, and a couple of advertisements: One was to submit your own articles to the magazine for publication (by writing to the editor, Rikki Endsley) and another was to attend USENIX conferences in the US and learn directly from the experts!

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

I’m excited to be heading to Las Vegas in less than two weeks for our annual re:Invent conference. I’m excited to host this event where five AWS-powered startups will make a significant, never-before-shared launch announcement on stage. It will be an opportunity to network with the hottest startups, enterprises, and AWS team members.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 20, 2013

The Netflix OSS Cloud Prize. Netflix has over the years become one of the absolute best engineering powerhouses for building cloud-native applications. At AWS we are very proud to be their infrastructure partner and every day we learn from how they use our cloud services. By Werner Vogels on 20 March 2013 05:00 PM.

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Dynatrace

JULY 13, 2020

Cloud Native DevOps with Kubernetes : . Cloud: A utomation of infrastructure and services on-demand, pay as you use model . Cloud-native? refers to cloud-based, containerized, distributed systems, made up of cooperating microservices, dynamically managed by automated infrastructure as code. . ?

Google 132

Google Ecommerce DevOps Cloud 132

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

While it’s sadly premature to say that the survey took place at the end of the COVID-19 pandemic (though we can all hope), it took place at a time when restrictions were loosening: we were starting to go out in public, have parties, and in some cases even attend in-person conferences. Salaries were lower regardless of education or job title.

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Dynatrace

JULY 13, 2020

Cloud Native DevOps with Kubernetes : . Cloud: A utomation of infrastructure and services on-demand, pay as you use model . Cloud-native? refers to cloud-based, containerized, distributed systems, made up of cooperating microservices, dynamically managed by automated infrastructure as code. . ?

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Google Ecommerce DevOps Cloud 130

Brendan Gregg

APRIL 14, 2022

I joined Netflix in 2014, a company at the forefront of cloud computing with an attractive [work culture]. I could help not only Netflix but all customers of the cloud. Netflix has been the best job of my career so far, and I'll miss my colleagues and the culture. offer letter logo (2014). flame graphs (2014). eBPF tools (2014-2019).

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 24, 2011

Hacking with AWS at The Next Web Hackaton. Over the past years The Next Web Conference has become a premier conference on internet life and its technologies. I have been to the conference almost every year and it is getting better every time. Amsterdam is of course the ideal place for such a conference :-).

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Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 17, 2022

My talks on Failing Over Without Falling Over are still very relevant, but AWS did finally release a key new service that implements key parts of the architecture: AWS Route 53 Application Recovery Controller. For example AWS launched an instance type with 800 Gbits/s of network bandwith in 2021.

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All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

AWS re: Invent. Hundreds of thousands of businesses in over 190 countries are relying on AWS to support some or all of their business and IT needs. AWS re: Invent is our inaugural global customer and partner conference that will be held November 27-29 at The Venetian in Las Vegas. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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AWS Games Internet Internet 98

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

This included SysAdmin magazine, which contained articles from various experts including Amy Rich, and a couple of advertisements: One was to submit your own articles to the magazine for publication (by writing to the editor, Rikki Endsley) and another was to attend USENIX conferences in the US and learn directly from the experts!

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

All Things Distributed

MARCH 12, 2018

When we released Amazon Alexa, our intelligent, cloud-based voice service, we built its voice technology on the AWS Natural Language Processing platform powered by ML algorithms. With Alexa for Business, the administrator can configure the conference rooms and integrate calendars to the devices.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

I happened to be speaking at a technical confering while still debugging this, and mentioned what I was working on to a processor engineer. That chance encounter, coupled with the Netflix's fault-tolerant cloud, gave me enough confidence to suggest trying tsc in production as a workaround for the issue.

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., In case you are interested, at the same conference I also gave a talk on [BPF Internals]. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Brendan Gregg

MAY 28, 2021

While my move is among the first from the Linux cloud teams, Netflix has had staff in Australia for years (for content, marketing, and the FreeBSD OCA). Sydney has AWS and Google offices and even a small Netflix office, just to name a few. Engineers are remote, and may only meet once or twice a year at a Linux kernel conference.

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The Symphonia

MARCH 14, 2018

AWS announced a new service?—?the The general goal of SAR is to make it easier to distribute, and consume, applications that have been developed using AWS Serverless products, like Lambda. SAM itself is built on top of AWS CloudFormation ?—?Amazon’s the Serverless Application Repository (SAR)?—?at at re:Invent 2017.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 30, 2019

Because we analyzed the results of our Autonomous Cloud Survey and sat down with a handful of these companies that provided answers to questions such as: What’s your Commit Cycle Time? Keptn is the open source control plane for continuous deployment and automated operations for cloud native applications on Kubernetes. Dynatrace news.

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Brendan Gregg

APRIL 14, 2022

offer letter logo (2014) flame graphs (2014) eBPF tools (2014-2019) PMC analysis (2017) my pandemic-abandoned desk (2020); office wall I joined Netflix in 2014, a company at the forefront of cloud computing with an attractive work culture. I could help not only Netflix but all customers of the cloud. Thank you.

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The Symphonia

MARCH 13, 2018

The biggest change that your editor (Mike) sees from a year ago is the mind-boggling number of Serverless conferences, and Serverless tracks at other conferences, that now exist. Already this year we’ve had the latest Serverless Conf from A Cloud Guru, which happened in the same week and on the same continent as the final Jeff Conf.

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The Symphonia

JUNE 19, 2018

We’ll get to all of those later on, but first I’m going to start the news this time with a roundup of an interesting day last week… News from the Serverless World Keynote Stage at Velocity 2018 Last week I was at O’Reilly’s Velocity conference in San Jose. Great stuff! I wholeheartedly agree. makers of Fission ?—?the

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Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 20, 2023

Custom HPC optimized CPUs and GPUs will become the mainstream in the next few years, with chiplets based on the ARM and RISC-V pattern libraries and tooling, with competition between cloud providers, startups and the large systems vendors. Next generation architectures will use CXL3.0 Next generation architectures will use CXL3.0

Architecture 52

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The Symphonia

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

More “Service Mesh” style functionality across AWS Serverless services. This was sorta / kinda announced last year, and while both EKS and Fargate have individually advanced, the promised land of Serverlessish Kubernetes on AWS hasn’t yet materialized. API support for disabling / deleting sub accounts within AWS Organizations.

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O'Reilly

DECEMBER 2, 2019

I don’t need more bandwidth for video conferences or movies, but I would like to be able to download operating system updates and other large items in seconds rather than minutes. What would the world look like if all of our storage was in the cloud, and access to that storage was so fast we didn’t care? Upcoming events.

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