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

Adrian Cockcroft

In 1991 I wrote a white paper on performance that was widely read, and in 1993 (with help from Brian Wong) that got me a job in the USA, working alongside Brian for Mike Briggs in technical product marketing. Paul Reithmuller was yet another imported Australian engineer who did amazing work.

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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. After seeing companies struggle to find and fix frontend performance issues, Billy left HP and founded Zoompf, a web performance optimization company acquired by Rigor in 2015. Paul Irish. Paul Irish.