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.
Brendan Gregg
MARCH 16, 2024
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%. We may get there with future technologies I'll cover later. But I'd rather the cost be zero, of course!
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All Things Distributed
OCTOBER 25, 2018
AWS has been an active member of the local technology community since 2004. That's where we built many pioneering networking technologies, our next-generation software for customer support, and the technology behind our compute service, Amazon EC2. This has helped unearth innovative startups like Asoriba.
Brendan Gregg
JUNE 3, 2021
I'd seen some amazing technologies from Sun, but I'd never seen a developer on a world tour. This was an important innovation by Sun Microsystems, a US-based multinational company worth billions. Ah-hah – this must be the internal project! But this would be no ordinary project.
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.
Adrian Cockcroft
JUNE 21, 2022
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 also learned a lot about how to work directly with customers, when to shut up and let the sales guy drive the conversation, and generally how technology sales works.
All Things Distributed
MARCH 7, 2013
We have also reduced our underlying costs through significant technical innovations from our engineering team. A number of high profile outages at the height of the 2004 holiday shopping season can be traced back to scaling relational database technologies beyond their capabilities.
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