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.

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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. We argue that RInK stores should not be used when implementing scalable data center services. Who knew! ;).

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Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. I was looking for a new challenge, so joined the program and ended up getting certified as a “black belt”.

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Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

O'Reilly Software

MARCH 7, 2018

Build a more scalable, composable, and functional architecture for interconnecting systems and applications. 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.

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Transportation Java Programming Architecture 72

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Throughout the web’s history, static websites have always been a popular option due to their simplicity, scalability, and security. In the 2000s we had a showdown of two popular blog publishing platforms — MovableType in 2001 and WordPress in 2003. Nanoc removed the UI and is instead a program you run on the command line.

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