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. At one point we had two conflicting high availability products from different teams, who weren’t cooperating.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

All Things Distributed

MARCH 7, 2013

As I sat down with the DynamoDB team to review our progress over the last year, I realized that DynamoDB had surpassed even my own expectations for how easily applications could achieve massive scale and high availability with DynamoDB. Indexed Storage costs : We are lowering the price of indexed storage by 75%.

Ecommerce 135

Ecommerce Storage Scalability Hardware 135

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Today marks the 10 year anniversary of Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper , a milestone that made me reflect on how much innovation has occurred in the area of databases over the last decade and a good reminder on why taking a customer obsessed approach to solving hard problems can have lasting impact beyond your original expectations.

Internet 124

Internet Internet AWS Performance 124

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

It is very gratifying to see all of our learning and experience become available to our customers in the form of an easy-to-use managed service. In response, we began to develop a collection of storage and database technologies to address the demanding scalability and reliability requirements of the Amazon.com ecommerce platform.

Scalability 166

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 166

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

​​ With new ​​ innovations ​​ come ​​ new terms, designs, ​​ and ​​ algorithms. Streams ​​ NTFS volumes ​​ enable ​​ data files to have one or more secondary storage streams.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40