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. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc.

Tuning 52

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Alex Russell

MARCH 9, 2024

Examples include Internet Explorer 3-6 as well as Safari on Mac OS X and the first iPhone. Engineering stop-energy in standards and quasi-standards bodies is nice and all, but it is so much more work than simply denying anyone the ability to ship the features that you won't. They certainly have leaders who understand the difference.

Benchmarking 59

Benchmarking Strategy Internet Internet 59

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

As an engineer on a browser team, I'm privy to the blow-by-blow of various performance projects, benchmark fire drills, and the ways performance marketing (deeply) impacts engineering priorities. With each team, benchmarks lost are understood as bugs. is access to hardware devices. This is as it should be. Converging Views.

Media 145

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