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. Rich became co-author of the second edition of the Sun Performance Tuning book, to describe how it worked. Rich Pettit is one of the best programmers I ever met.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

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 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

All Things Distributed

MARCH 7, 2013

We have also reduced our underlying costs through significant technical innovations from our engineering team. This allows us to tune both our hardware and our software to ensure that the end-to-end service is both cost-efficient and highly performant. How are we able to do this?

Ecommerce 139

Ecommerce Storage Scalability Hardware 139

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

​​ 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.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40