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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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 1, 2021

Background The Media Cloud Engineering and Encoding Technologies teams at Netflix jointly operate a system to process incoming media files from our partners and studios to make them playable on all devices. The first generation of this system went live with the streaming launch in 2007.

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O'Reilly

APRIL 4, 2024

As Bill Janeway noted in his critique of the capital-fueled bubbles that resulted from the ultra-low interest rates of the decade following the 2007–2009 financial crisis, “ capital is not a strategy.” Others had already deployed the capital to build much of the infrastructure for ride-hailing—GPS satellites and GPS-enabled smartphones.

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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. The maturing of various AI technologies has also hit some tipping points and is evolving extremely quickly week by week.

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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. They were too wrapped up in silly technology debates (e.g.,

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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. That’s why we had to mention Mina , senior front-end engineer at Slack, Sasstronaut , and a truly rare gem in technology. Jake Archibald.

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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. Egnyte was founded in 2007. Do you use any particularly cool technologies or algorithms? Video Transcoding. Permissions. Recommendations.

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