Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 20, 2023

I have always been particularly interested in the interconnects and protocols used to create clusters, and the latency and bandwidth of the various offerings that are available. I presented a keynote for Sun at Supercomputing 2003 in Phoenix Arizona and included the slide shown below.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

In the 2000s we had a showdown of two popular blog publishing platforms — MovableType in 2001 and WordPress in 2003. In addition, they introduced a hosted version of MovableType in 2003 called TypePad to compete with other popular cloud platforms. Nanoc removed the UI and is instead a program you run on the command line.

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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. The network latency of fetching data over the network, even considering fast data center networks. Who knew! ;).

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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.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

The caching of data pages and grouping of log records helps remove much, if not all, of the command latency associated with a write operation. Action Description Manual Checkpoint – Target Specified I/O latency target set to ​​ the default ​​ of ​​ 20ms.

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