Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 20, 2023

Clouds using Ethernet that are multipath optimized using libfabric and features like EFA on AWS are going to be increasingly competitive, and Ethernet will replace other interconnects between racks. The emergence of chiplet technology also allows higher performance and integration without having to design every chip from scratch.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 18, 2012

After the AWS re: Invent conference I spent two weeks in Europe for the last customer visits of the year. Although there are still a few very exciting AWS news updates to happen this year. Jul 6 - End-To-End Arguments in System Design , by J. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Comments ().

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The Morning Paper

JUNE 23, 2019

Why are developers using RInK systems as part of their design? Keeping application services stateless is a design guideline that achieved widespread adoption following the publication of the 12-factor app manifesto. Yes, a bit like those 2nd-level caches we were talking about earlier, e.g. Ehcache from 2003 onwards.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 20, 2017

That was the provocative thesis of a much-talked-about article from 2003 in the Harvard Business Review by the US publicist Nicolas Carr. The founders had noticed that in many companies, product designers worked in a very detached manner from the rest of production. Strategically, IT doesn't matter. Value creation through data.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

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. I worked with the engineering team that was designing the backplane connector, but the project was eventually cancelled when Sun ran out of money. He hasn’t changed.

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CSS - Tricks

MAY 3, 2021

For one thing, the design of WebPageTest is now quite nice. 1045-aws", "os_version":"Linux 5.4.0-1045-aws", An amazing achievement, to be sure, but it also feels good to me that WebPageTest is now owned by Catchpoint with Patrick being there himself on the project. A welcome upgrade, let’s say. So yes, WebPageTest is still here.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Piecing together a website using a WYSIWYG editor and seeing the code it generated was a fascinating and educational experience that sparked an initial interest in web design. In Designing The Perfect Navigation , Vitaly will explore 100s of practical examples of better mega-dropdowns , hamburgers, carousels, modals and filters.

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