All Things Distributed
OCTOBER 25, 2018
AWS has been an active member of the local technology community since 2004. We also work with some of Africa's fastest growing startups such as Aerobotics, Apex Innovations, Asoriba, Custos Media, EMS Invirotel, Entersekt, HealthQ, JUMO, Luno, Mukuru, PayGate, Parcel Ninja, Simfy Africa, Zapper, Zanibal, and Zoona.
Adrian Cockcroft
JANUARY 31, 2023
What Adrian Did Next — Part 3 — eBay — 2004 to 2007 I’d left Sun (part 2 in this series) , and had a few months off over the summer, so (of course) got married to @laurelco, bought a “fixer upper” house in the Los Gatos mountains, and worked on getting it tidied up.
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Brendan Gregg
MARCH 16, 2024
As my former Sun Microsystems colleague Eric Schrock (nickname Schrock) wrote in November 2004 : "On i386, you at least had the advantage of increasing the number of usable registers by 20%. Conclusion I could say that times have changed and now the original 2004 reasons for omitting frame pointers are no longer valid in 2024.
O'Reilly
MARCH 4, 2020
When I interviewed Freeman on stage at OSCON in 2004 , along with his son George, the subject strayed to digital preservation. Another moment that I treasure was a fragment of an overheard conversation at the first Science Foo Camp in 2004. I can’t resist adding to the outpouring of appreciation and love that has ensued.
Adrian Cockcroft
DECEMBER 31, 2023
I saw this play out while I was at Sun Microsystems as the dot com bubble burst in 2001–2004. Innovation goes away, micromanagement appears and everyone gets less useful work done. Founder led companies often have problems maintaining their innovation culture when the founder moves on.
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.
All Things Distributed
MARCH 7, 2013
We have also reduced our underlying costs through significant technical innovations from our engineering team. A number of high profile outages at the height of the 2004 holiday shopping season can be traced back to scaling relational database technologies beyond their capabilities.
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