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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

In 1991 I wrote a white paper on performance that was widely read, and in 1993 (with help from Brian Wong) that got me a job in the USA, working alongside Brian for Mike Briggs in technical product marketing. Later on after some re-orgs we ended up reporting to Greg Papadopoulos, who was CTO of the server organization at the time.

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Measuring Carbon is Not Enough?—?Unintended Consequences

Adrian Cockcroft

I’ve written before about how to tune out retry storms. Google’s carbon data for each region is based on an accumulation of hourly location based consumption based carbon intensity measurements (sourced from ElectricityMaps) over a year. I think the good news is that over time it will get less complicated.

Energy 52
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DevOps Enterprise Summit, Europe 2021: Leadership and OKRs

Tasktop

Citing the Navy’s “leadership factory”, he encouraged attendees to focus on tuning a system for building leaders, to give them the responsibility and ownership to hone their skills and come back “stronger” from missions. The right leader matters, as retired Admiral John Richardson attested. And their popularity is on the rise.

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