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

Adrian Cockcroft

We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc. 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. It was the first database sizing guide Sun had ever produced. He hasn’t changed.

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Fast key-value stores: an idea whose time has come and gone

The Morning Paper

Coupled with stateless application servers to execute business logic and a database-like system to provide persistent storage, they form a core component of popular data center service archictectures. Yes, a bit like those 2nd-level caches we were talking about earlier, e.g. Ehcache from 2003 onwards. Who knew! ;).

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