Adrian Cockcroft

DECEMBER 31, 2023

I saw this play out while I was at Sun Microsystems as the dot com bubble burst in 2001–2004. Innovation goes away, micromanagement appears and everyone gets less useful work done. Founder led companies often have problems maintaining their innovation culture when the founder moves on.

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AWS Energy Innovation Strategy 98

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 17, 2012

I have been a fan of much of Matts work as he combined common sense engineering with excellent intellectual innovation. In Proceedings of the Eighteenth Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP-18), Banff, Canada, October, 2001.

Architecture 98

Architecture AWS Internet Internet 98

The Agile Manager

MAY 31, 2019

True, both IBM and Microsoft were subject to regulation in 1956 and 2001, respectively, to limit their monopolistic powers. But neither suffered dents in their financial returns as a result (attorney fees notwithstanding), and the tech industry innovated in ways that made their respective monopolistic states very short lived.

Social Media 40

Social Media Media Government Innovation 40

The Agile Manager

APRIL 30, 2020

Both the financial and real economies have suffered quite a few shocks in the last 20 years: the dot-com bubble bursting (2000); September 11 (2001); the Great Recession (2008); and today in 2020 the COVID-19 crisis is wreaking economic havoc.

Social Media 52

Social Media Innovation Internet Internet 52

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I really enjoyed the variety of working with several different customers every day, on different problems, and being part of an extremely innovative and fast growing company. This was a big jump to make, I had to wear a suit to work every day, and spend all my time paired up with a sales rep visiting customers.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

ACM Sigarch

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

The technical program, put together by program chairs Tor Aamodt and Reetuparna Das , showcased key innovations across a wide range of computer architecture topics, from domain-specific accelerators to in/near-memory computing and from security to quantum computing. . This year’s MICRO had three inspiring keynote talks. Conference.

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Hardware Architecture Programming Innovation 18

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 25, 2019

Netflix Data Landscape Freedom & Responsibility (F&R) is the lynchpin of Netflix’s culture empowering teams to move fast to deliver on innovation and operate with freedom to satisfy their mission. If you would like to be part of our small, impactful, and collaborative team?—?come come join us.

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Infrastructure Big Data Transportation Architecture 219