Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 31, 2023

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.

Google 52

Google Transportation Programming Innovation 52

Percona

JUNE 2, 2023

WordPress also benefited from and popularized MySQL, introducing the LAMP stack – and open source – to an audience that might never have touched a database before or had any intro to open source. MySQL was the database for phpWebLog, for example, way back in 2000. MySQL was founded in 1995 and went open source in 2000.

Open Source 92

Open Source Traffic Tuning Database 92

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 25, 2013

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. My paper to read this weekend was the Alan Demers seminal paper on epidemic techniques for database replication. reliable and scalable distributed systems. scalable distributed systems. Epidemic algorithms for replicated database maintenance.

Database 89

Database Scalability C++ Systems 89

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

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Today is a very exciting day as we release Amazon DynamoDB , a fast, highly reliable and cost-effective NoSQL database service designed for internet scale applications.

Scalability 167

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167

All Things Distributed

MARCH 7, 2013

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Many of our customers have, with the click of a button, created DynamoDB deployments in a matter of minutes that are able to serve trillions of database requests per year. s fast and easy scalability can be quickly applied to building high scale applications.

Ecommerce 139

Ecommerce Storage Scalability Hardware 139

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Today marks the 10 year anniversary of Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper , a milestone that made me reflect on how much innovation has occurred in the area of databases over the last decade and a good reminder on why taking a customer obsessed approach to solving hard problems can have lasting impact beyond your original expectations.

Internet 130

Internet Internet AWS Performance 130