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.

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Google Transportation Programming Innovation 52

Tasktop

JANUARY 18, 2022

January 17, 2007: Dr. Mik Kersten, Dr. Gail Murphy and Robert Elves founded Tasktop. Just to put it in context, here are some other highlights from 2007: Apple iPhone was announced and launched. Offload your brain to code at the speed of thought” . We’ve had some laughs and a lot of fun getting here.

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Open Source Speed Games Software 98

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 2, 2023

My talk was on Innovation and Tipping Points, the first half was based on some content I’ve given before on how to get out of the way of innovation by speeding up time to value or idea to implementation. You need to be able to innovate fast enough to pivot or reinvent your business model and leverage the change.

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Social Media Innovation Open Source Entertainment 98

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Check out her writing about business and technology on her own site at rachelandrew.co.uk , and follow her on Twitter @ rachelandrew , where she tweets about CSS, tech topics, and much more. Originally a punk hacker , Billy first worked as a web security researcher, innovating new ways to both attack and defend web applications.

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Performance Education Google Website 89

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. Java used to power core file system code. Python used to power client-side code, certain microservices, migration scripts, internal scripts. Egnyte was founded in 2007.

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Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

The Netflix video processing pipeline went live with the launch of our streaming service in 2007. We rolled out encoding innovations such as per-title and per-shot optimizations, which provided significant quality-of-experience (QoE) improvement to Netflix members. This introductory blog focuses on an overview of our journey.

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The Agile Manager

JUNE 23, 2007

Thus leadership and its derivative characteristics - notably innovation and responsiveness - are the result of calculated, not wanton, risk taking. play with shiny new toys) without taking us out of our comfort zone (the technology space versus the business space). It plays directly to that which IT professionals want to do (e.g.,

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