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Signs that it’s time to leave a company…

Adrian Cockcroft

I joined AWS about seven years ago, when it was growing fast, there was headcount and flexibility in hiring, and Amazon was famously cheap about the office space it occupied. I saw this play out while I was at Sun Microsystems as the dot com bubble burst in 2001–2004. Nowadays I’d say a hard no to anyone thinking of working there.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For March 22nd, 2019

High Scalability

BrentToderian : What city went from 14% of all trips by bike in 2001, to 22% by 2012, then leaped to 30% in 3 years by 2015, & 35% by 2018? They'll learn a lot and love you even more.5 5 billion : weekly visits to Apple App store; $500m : new US exascale computer; $1.7 The company is burning through cash. $3B 3B this year, $4B next year.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For July 13th, 2018

High Scalability

Hossein Fateh : The largest deal of 2001 was 3.5 Matt Alderman : Based on our estimates, AWS Fargate deployments should save you 5 percent to 10 percent in your compute bill as compared to highly optimized AWS ECS or EKS deployments. Women have always been and will always be essential to the advance of computing.

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Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Staged Event-Driven Architecture

All Things Distributed

I am in São Paolo, Brazil for the 2012 AWS Latin America Summit and for The Next Web Latin America conference. I will also be visiting Chile and Mexico on this trip and have the great fortune to meet many of our Latin American AWS customers. By Werner Vogels on 17 August 2012 07:00 PM. Comments (). Staged Event-Driven Architecture.

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The Back-to-Basics Readings of 2012 - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

After the AWS re: Invent conference I spent two weeks in Europe for the last customer visits of the year. Although there are still a few very exciting AWS news updates to happen this year. In Proceedings of the Eighteenth Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP-18), Banff, Canada, October, 2001. Comments ().

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

Adrian Cockcroft

I saw Erik Fisher last time I was in Budapest, and Constantin Gonzalez later became one of the first AWS solutions architects in Germany, too many names to mention. He hasn’t changed. So many global friendships were made that continue to today.

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

The Netflix TechBlog

To improve data accuracy, we decided to leverage AWS S3 access logs to identify entity relationships not been captured by our traditional ingestion process. We will be at Strata San Francisco on March 27th in room 2001 delivering a tech session on this topic, please join us and share your experiences. come join us.