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

Adrian Cockcroft

We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc. Jim Mauro and Allan Packer visited on rotation from New Jersey, and Adelaide Australia, and worked out how to produce a database sizing guide for Oracle Financials, which I wrote up and published. Jim also joined the database performance team.

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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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Transforming enterprise integration with reactive streams

O'Reilly Software

In addition to that, software is increasingly dependent on other software to provide its functionality, be it WebServices, HTTP APIs, databases, or even external devices such as sensors. In 2003, Gregor Hohpe and Bobby Woolf released their book Enterprise Integration Patterns. HTTP, TCP, FTP, MQTT, JMS), databases (i.e.,