Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I still code in R… One role I had for many years was to lead technical training events for the global specialist systems engineers, which we called the Ambassador Program. 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.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

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. I presented a keynote for Sun at Supercomputing 2003 in Phoenix Arizona and included the slide shown below.

Architecture 52

Architecture Latency Benchmarking AWS 52

The Morning Paper

JUNE 23, 2019

After all, we’ve been doing that forever with the 2nd-level cache of ORMs , and it is highly encouraged in e.g. the AWS Lambda programming model — which was born on the cloud— to help mitigate function start-up times. Yes, a bit like those 2nd-level caches we were talking about earlier, e.g. Ehcache from 2003 onwards.

Cache 79

Cache Latency Google Lambda 79

O'Reilly Software

MARCH 7, 2018

Software today is not typically a single program—something that is executed by an operator or user, producing a result to that person—but rather a service : something that runs for the benefit of its consumers, a provider of value. The most common programming task in the world. Let’s dive into this concept for a bit.

Transportation 72

Transportation Java Programming Architecture 72