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. It was early 2007, and time to move on again.

Google 52

Google Transportation Programming Innovation 52

O'Reilly

APRIL 4, 2024

As Bill Janeway noted in his critique of the capital-fueled bubbles that resulted from the ultra-low interest rates of the decade following the 2007–2009 financial crisis, “ capital is not a strategy.” Google raised only $36 million in venture capital on its way to dominance. Venture capitalists don’t have a crystal ball.

Artificial Intelligence 63

Artificial Intelligence Open Source Innovation Transportation 63

Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

This blog article traces key developments that coincided with MongoDB’s move away from open source software, and it examines how SSPL influence might have lured others in the same direction. MongoDB started out in 2007 as 10gen, a New York-based company looking to create a Platform as a Service (PaaS) solution.

Open Source 88

Open Source Programming Database Servers 88

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Rachel is the Editor-in-Chief of Smashing Magazine, a British web developer, writer, and speaker. Jake is a developer advocate at Google working with the Chrome team to develop and promote web standards and developer tools, as well as a contributor to the Chromium blog. Rachel Andrew. Jake Archibald. Rick Byers.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

High Scalability

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

samred : Jorgensen didn't mince words: he blamed the drop in the [EA] series' uptake by the developers' focus on a single-player campaign, as opposed to having a promised battle royale mode ready for fans in time for the game's launch. Newzoo : The games market took more than 35 years to grow to a $35 billion business in 2007.

Internet 188

Internet Internet Scalability Wireless 188

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Apple forces developers of competing browsers to use their engine for all browsers on iOS , restricting their ability to deliver a better version of the web platform. They are, pound for pound, some of the best engine developers globally and genuinely want good things for the web. The Compatibility Tax.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

O'Reilly Software

MARCH 7, 2018

Although the ideas of reactive and streaming are nowhere near new, and keeping in mind that mere novelty doesn’t imply greatness, it is safe to say they have proven themselves and matured enough to see many programming languages, platforms, and infrastructure products embrace them fully. AWS, Kafka, Google Cloud, Spring, ElasticSearch).

Transportation 72

Transportation Java Programming Architecture 72