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.
Percona
JUNE 2, 2023
Firefox wouldn’t see its first release until November of 2004 and didn’t start seeing widespread adoption until years later. Developers, system administrators, database administrators, and enthusiasts were hip deep in open source operating systems, programming languages, and open databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL. Not so much.
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All Things Distributed
JANUARY 25, 2013
Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. I realized that in 2004, before my Amazon days, I already wrote a blog post about the fundamental publications in the area of epidemics, so this seems like a good moment to revisit that with updated links, etc. reliable and scalable distributed systems.
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. I also helped out in the run-up to the 2004 Athens Olympics.
All Things Distributed
DECEMBER 22, 2012
Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. 2004: Green Day, American Idiot. All Things Distributed. An Album for Each Year - 2012 Version. By Werner Vogels on 22 December 2012 06:00 PM. Comments (). About 5 years ago I joined a challenge to list "a favorite album for every year of your life."
The Morning Paper
NOVEMBER 5, 2019
It should offer high bandwidth, horizontal scalability, fault tolerance, and strong consistency. 2004) was a user-space file system called the Extent and B-Tree based object file system. What is a distributed storage backend? A distributed file system provides a unified view over aggregated storage from multiple physical machines.
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. 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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