Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 27, 2025

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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All Things Distributed

MARCH 26, 2018

At AWS, we don't mark many anniversaries. 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.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 23, 2020

Inspired Design Decisions With Otto Storch: When Idea, Copy, Art And Typography Became Inseperable. Inspired Design Decisions With Otto Storch: When Idea, Copy, Art And Typography Became Inseperable. I replaced them with books on art direction, editorial, and graphic design. Previously On “Inspired Design Decisions”.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 24, 2011

Hacking with AWS at The Next Web Hackaton. The images from the 2008 TNW Conference have travelled around the world in my Animoto demo: This year TNW is showing that it is not just a conference for talkers but also for builders by organizing a massive Hackaton in the two days running up to the conference. All Things Distributed.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 29, 2023

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. Today we have a wealth of tools, both OSS and commercial, all designed for cloud-native environments.

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on. Note that my predictions in this talk may be wrong, but they should be thought provoking.

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Performance Latency Hardware Storage 121

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Piecing together a website using a WYSIWYG editor and seeing the code it generated was a fascinating and educational experience that sparked an initial interest in web design. In Designing The Perfect Navigation , Vitaly will explore 100s of practical examples of better mega-dropdowns , hamburgers, carousels, modals and filters.

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