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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 3?—?eBay?—?2004 to 2007

Adrian Cockcroft

What Adrian Did Next — Part 3 — eBay — 2004 to 2007 I’d left Sun (part 2 in this series) , and had a few months off over the summer, so (of course) got married to @laurelco, bought a “fixer upper” house in the Los Gatos mountains, and worked on getting it tidied up. The whole company was a few hundred people.

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Amazon DynamoDB ? a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database.

All Things Distributed

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. The original Dynamo design was based on a core set of strong distributed systems principles resulting in an ultra-scalable and highly reliable database system.

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DynamoDB One Year Later - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. s fast and easy scalability can be quickly applied to building high scale applications. Shazam needed to handle an enormous increase in traffic for the duration of the Super Bowl and used DynamoDB as part of their architecture. All Things Distributed.

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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. I also helped out in the run-up to the 2004 Athens Olympics.

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AVIF for Next-Generation Image Coding

The Netflix TechBlog

It brought a whole range of additional features such as spatial scalability, region of interest coding, range of supported bit-depths, flexible number of color planes, lossless coding, etc. With the motion extension, it was accepted as the video coding standard for digital cinema in 2004.

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

To a certain extent, such a high diversity of recommendation techniques is attributed to several implementation challenges like a sparsity of customer ratings, computational scalability, and lack of information on new items and customers. Marlin, 2004. RE94] Grouplens: an open architecture for collaborative filtering of netnews, P.

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