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What Adrian Did Next — Part 4 — how I helped Netflix launch on iPad and iPhone — 2007 to 2010

Adrian Cockcroft

I went to the launch event, got an iPhone on day 1, and when Apple finally shipped their SDK in March 2008 I was in the first wave of people who signed up as an iOS developer. In September 2008 Netflix ran an internal hack day event. They were about to launch a public API and wanted internal teams to try it out before launch.

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Improve user experience with more visibility into CDN-related HTTP errors (Part 1) 

Dynatrace

This approach was already at its limit back in 2008 when an Akamai CDN network had only ~25,000 delivery nodes. Without being an expert in the application’s functionality and architecture, you can still learn from step 2 that the impact was not only on the end user, but also on your business’ bottom line.

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How architecture evolves into strategy

O'Reilly Software

I should start by saying this section does not offer a treatise on how to do architecture. Vitruvius and the principles of architecture. Architecture begins when someone has a nontrivial problem to be solved. Everyone who goes to architecture school learns his work. It must be beautiful, like Venus, inspiring love.

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Zero Configuration Service Mesh with On-Demand Cluster Discovery

The Netflix TechBlog

A brief history of IPC at Netflix Netflix was early to the cloud, particularly for large-scale companies: we began the migration in 2008, and by 2010, Netflix streaming was fully run on AWS. In this architecture, service to service communication no longer goes through the single point of failure of a load balancer.

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Looking back at 10 years of compartmentalization at AWS

All Things Distributed

March 26, 2008 doesn't have any delicious desserts associated with it, but that's the day when we launched Availability Zones for Amazon EC2. A concept that has changed infrastructure architecture is now at the core of both AWS and customer reliability and operations. The Amazon S3 team still celebrate with homemade pies!

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RISC-V — the CPU you didn’t know you already have…

Adrian Cockcroft

ARM is a technology licensing company that develops generations of CPU architectures aimed at everything from very low power embedded processors through the most powerful enterprise class CPUs. Theres a growing library of standardized extensions to the architecture, and compliance testing to ensure software portability.

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Customer Conversations - How Intuit and Edmodo Innovate using.

All Things Distributed

Jack: Since our launch in late 2008, weve grown to over 6 million teachers and students globally primarily through word of mouth of teachers who have shared Edmodo with each other. Troy: The initial architecture was based on MySQL– weve continued with use of SQL but are now leveraging RDS. And how about you Troy?