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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

I was mostly coding in C, tuning FORTRAN, and when I needed to do a lot of data analysis of benchmark results used the S-PLUS statistics language, that is the predecessor to R. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc. Rich Pettit is one of the best programmers I ever met.

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Building and Scaling Data Lineage at Netflix to Improve Data Infrastructure Reliability, and…

The Netflix TechBlog

Central engineering teams provide paved paths (secure, vetted and supported options) and guard rails to help reduce variance in choices available for tools and technologies to support the development of scalable technical architectures. Challenges We faced a diverse set of challenges spread across many layers in the system.