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

Adrian Cockcroft

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. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc.

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Rethinking the 'production' of data

All Things Distributed

That was the provocative thesis of a much-talked-about article from 2003 in the Harvard Business Review by the US publicist Nicolas Carr. Developments like cloud computing, the internet of things, artificial intelligence, and machine learning are proving that IT has (again) become a strategic business driver.

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Being Practical

Tim Kadlec

Nick Finck and Steve Champeon first coined the term “progressive enhancement” in 2003. guiding principle, richness: Another thing to keep in mind about richness, as a developer, is that you’re probably not the average user. Here at Yahoo!, Seriously, this stuff is pure gold especially today. That was 2008.

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