Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I really enjoyed the variety of working with several different customers every day, on different problems, and being part of an extremely innovative and fast growing company. I worked with the engineering team that was designing the backplane connector, but the project was eventually cancelled when Sun ran out of money.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

High Scalability

JUNE 15, 2018

Dave Snowden ~ A key principle of complex design is shift a system to an adjacent possible. The end of Dennard Scaling and Moore's Law means architecture is where we have to innovate to improve performance, cost, and energy. And soon we are going to have the first AIs that really deserve the name, the first true AIs.

Internet 113

Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 113

O'Reilly Software

OCTOBER 23, 2018

It's a given that we must design a system, including a local software architecture, that actually runs, that is "solid." the user experience and design) and within the software construction itself. Keeping the design "simple" often defers the interests of flexibility until later, where it becomes very expensive.

Strategy 100

Strategy Architecture Technology Technology 100

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2016

UK companies are using AWS to innovate across diverse industries, such as energy, manufacturing, medicaments, retail, media, and financial services and the UK is home to some of the world's most forward-thinking businesses. Take Peterborough City Council as an example. Fraud.net is a good example of this.

AWS 166

AWS Cloud Artificial Intelligence IoT 166

All Things Distributed

APRIL 9, 2015

Today, I want to dive deeper into some key design decisions we made while building Amazon ECS to address the core problems our customers are facing. Furthermore, they felt that this was undifferentiated heavy lifting and would rather focus their energy on running their applications and growing their businesses.

Energy 115

Energy AWS Scalability Availability 115

Highly Scalable

MARCH 10, 2015

More specifically, the article was inspired by three major case studies from Albert Heijn [KOK07], the largest supermarket chain in the Netherlands, Zara [CA12], an international apparel retailer, and RueLaLa [JH14], an innovative online fashion retailer. The design of the model heavily depends on the problem. Propensity to churn.

Retail 152

Retail C++ Analytics Metrics 152

ACM Sigarch

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

As is the case for many high-quality computer systems conferences, the papers presented here involve a significant amount of engineering and experimentation on real hardware to convincingly evaluate innovative concepts end-to-end in a realistic setting. A different line of work considered accelerating existing OS services with accelerators.

Architecture 12

Architecture Hardware Cache Storage 12