Adrian Cockcroft

DECEMBER 31, 2023

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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AWS Energy Innovation Strategy 98

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

There are many more application areas where we use ML extensively: search, autonomous drones, robotics in fulfillment centers, text processing and speech recognition (such as in Alexa) etc. And this process must be repeated for every object, face, voice, and language feature in an application.

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AWS Lambda Artificial Intelligence Mobile 165

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 25, 2019

To improve data accuracy, we decided to leverage AWS S3 access logs to identify entity relationships not been captured by our traditional ingestion process. During the conformance process, the data collected from different sources is transformed to make sure that all entities in our data flow, such as tables, jobs, reports, etc.

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Infrastructure Big Data Transportation Architecture 219

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 18, 2012

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 (). Nijssen ed.,

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Operating System Cache AWS Scalability 144

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

In the 2000s we had a showdown of two popular blog publishing platforms — MovableType in 2001 and WordPress in 2003. Twitch developer documentation hosted on AWS, edited on CloudCannon. Netlify , Vercel , CloudFlare , and AWS all have the concept of serverless functions run at edge nodes of a CDN. Online, and live.

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Ecommerce Website Government Internet 139

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

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. I’d helped eBay recover from capacity related outages in 1999 and had setup their capacity planning processes. He hasn’t changed.

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Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

There's also a ZFS send/recv code path that should try to use the TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE flag (as suggested by a coworker), to avoid a kernel hang (can't kill -9 the process). On Linux, containers are a combination of namespaces (restricting what a process sees) and cgroups (similar to Solaris resource controls).

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Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76