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

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

The Netflix video processing pipeline went live with the launch of our streaming service in 2007. We rolled out encoding innovations such as per-title and per-shot optimizations, which provided significant quality-of-experience (QoE) improvement to Netflix members. This introductory blog focuses on an overview of our journey.

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Processing Media Latency Innovation 234

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

One of these systems is Marken , a scalable service used to persist feature values as annotations, which are versioned and strongly typed constructs associated with Netflix media entities such as videos and artwork. Conclusion and Future Work The intersection of media and ML holds numerous prospects for innovation and impact.

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Media Storage Infrastructure Systems 294

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 120

Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

Early years: Fueled by innovation and community-mindedness Initially, the lines weren’t so blurred, and certainly, they weren’t muddied. MongoDB started out in 2007 as 10gen, a New York-based company looking to create a Platform as a Service (PaaS) solution. They came up with a horizontally scalable NoSQL database.

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Open Source Programming Database Servers 86

Tasktop

APRIL 2, 2020

The end of the Turning Point marks the start of the Deployment Period , when the production capital of that age’s innovators starts taking over, and new lifestyles create demand for new products and services, new jobs and new skills. . These cycles and bubbles of innovation happen every several decades.

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Government Innovation Strategy Technology 109

The Agile Manager

DECEMBER 28, 2007

Breakaway opportunities tend also to be highly sensitive to non-functional requirements, such as performance, scalability and security. These are not problem domains that lend themselves to a divide-and-conquer approach, they are domains that require a discover-collaborate-innovate approach. Ballard was quoted by Anders, George.

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Government Retail Best Practices Technology 40