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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.

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

Adrian Cockcroft

I really enjoyed the variety of working with several different customers every day, on different problems, and being part of an extremely innovative and fast growing company. I was looking for a new challenge, so joined the program and ended up getting certified as a “black belt”. Rich Pettit is one of the best programmers I ever met.

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The Return of the Frame Pointers

Brendan Gregg

As my former Sun Microsystems colleague Eric Schrock (nickname Schrock) wrote in November 2004 : "On i386, you at least had the advantage of increasing the number of usable registers by 20%. Conclusion I could say that times have changed and now the original 2004 reasons for omitting frame pointers are no longer valid in 2024.

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Expanding the AWS Cloud – An AWS Region is coming to South Africa!

All Things Distributed

AWS has been an active member of the local technology community since 2004. We also work with some of Africa's fastest growing startups such as Aerobotics, Apex Innovations, Asoriba, Custos Media, EMS Invirotel, Entersekt, HealthQ, JUMO, Luno, Mukuru, PayGate, Parcel Ninja, Simfy Africa, Zapper, Zanibal, and Zoona.

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Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future

Smashing Magazine

You could create and update blog posts, all content was straight HTML — open-source WYSIWYG editors weren’t available at the time, and Markdown didn’t come about until 2004. Nanoc removed the UI and is instead a program you run on the command line. We can see all the bones of modern Jamstack CMSs here. Blog aware.

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

More specifically, the article was inspired by three major case studies from Albert Heijn [KOK07], the largest supermarket chain in the Netherlands, Zara [CA12], an international apparel retailer, and RueLaLa [JH14], an innovative online fashion retailer. Marlin, 2004. Targeted mailing campaigns and special gifts (e.g. Fisher, 2007.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

​​ With new ​​ innovations ​​ come ​​ new terms, designs, ​​ and ​​ algorithms. In versions ​​ earlier than ​​ SQL Server 2004 SP4, SQL Server latch enforcement protection involved more protection transitions.

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