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. He had it up and running on Wednesday.

Tuning 52

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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. This rapid adoption has allowed us to benefit from the scale economies inherent in our architecture.

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Ecommerce Storage Scalability Hardware 139

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.

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Internet Internet AWS Performance 125

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

​​ Various defragmentation ​​ utilities ​​ are ​​ available ​​ on the market today. Therefore, the database can have pages in any one of the three available verification states.

Servers 40

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