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. It was early 2007, and time to move on again.

Google 52

Google Transportation Programming Innovation 52

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 1, 2021

The first generation of this system went live with the streaming launch in 2007. Dealing with production issues became an expensive chore that placed a tax on all developers because infrastructure code was all mixed up with application code. The second generation added scale but was extremely difficult to operate.

Serverless 228

Serverless Media Latency Social Media 228

Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

MongoDB started out in 2007 as 10gen, a New York-based company looking to create a Platform as a Service (PaaS) solution. Co-founder Eliot Horowitz recounts ( {coding}bootcamps.io ): “MongoDB was born out of our frustration using tabular databases in large, complex production deployments. looking out for MongoDB Inc.

Open Source 80

Open Source Programming Database Servers 80

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 2, 2023

One example is that Netflix launched it’s streaming service in 2007, just at the point when the cost of streaming a movie over the network (which was dropping fast) became less than the cost of shipping a DVD. We’re already seeing the beginning of this direction with conversational programming and operations tooling like DoTheThing.ai

Social Media 98

Social Media Innovation Open Source Entertainment 98

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

After 20 years of neck-in-neck competition, often starting from common code lineages, there just isn't that much left to wring out of the system. The initial implementation was removed from Blink post-fork and re-implemented on new infrastructure several years later. Since 2007, support for these features has barely improved.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

O'Reilly Software

MARCH 7, 2018

Software today is not typically a single program—something that is executed by an operator or user, producing a result to that person—but rather a service : something that runs for the benefit of its consumers, a provider of value. The most common programming task in the world. Let’s dive into this concept for a bit.

Transportation 72

Transportation Java Programming Architecture 72

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Egnyte is a secure Content Collaboration and Data Governance platform, founded in 2007 when Google drive wasn't born and AWS S3 was cost-prohibitive. Infrastructure Optimization. Java used to power core file system code. Python used to power client-side code, certain microservices, migration scripts, internal scripts.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52