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

Adrian Cockcroft

Another big jump, but now it was my job to run benchmarks in the lab, and write white papers that explained the new products to the world, as they were launched. 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.

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Web Performance Bookshelf

Rigor

In her book, Lara Hogan helps you approach projects with page speed in mind, showing you how to test and benchmark which design choices are most critical. Master the many facets of delivering high performance images on the internet—without adversely affecting site performance. Designing for Performance. High Performance Images.

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

All together, she has written 23 books as a solo or co-author since 2002. Prior to founding start-ups, Luke was an Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) at Benchmark Capital , the Chief Design Architect (VP) at Yahoo!, Rachel is also one of the people behind Perch , a PHP content management system (CMS).