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

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Both Xen and KVM have had many performance and security improvements, and workloads can now be tuned to run at almost bare metal speeds (say, a 3% loss or less). When I first joined Sun in 2001, it was believed that Sun was too big to fail, as well. Outside of EC2, many other providers are deploying on KVM.

Virtualization 76

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

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 140