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. My homebrew phone project was abandoned and I started to learn Objective C and Apples mobile app development tooling. The code is still up on github.

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Sutter's Mill

AUGUST 13, 2023

Thanks again to C++ Now for inviting me to speak this year in glorious Aspen, Colorado, USA! The talk I gave there was just posted on YouTube, you can find it here: At CppCon 2022, I argued for why we should try to make C++ 10x simpler and safer , and I presented my own incomplete experimental compiler, cppfront.

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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. If service A needs to talk to clusters B and C, then you need to define clusters B and C as part of A’s proxy config.

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Sutter's Mill

JULY 12, 2010

From the article: … Active objects dramatically improve our ability to reason about our thread’s code and operation by giving us higher-level abstractions and idioms that raise the semantic level of our program and let us express our intent more directly. NET, Java, and C/Pthreads. Feb 2008). I hope you enjoy it.

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Adrian Cockcroft

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Imported from a Blogger post I wrote in 2008. Code shared on GitHub For some reason I seem to find time to write code in R when I’m on an airplane. The last two trips I made resulted in significant enhancements and debugging of the code for my headroom plot. The set of data is now split into ranges and color coded.

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Adrian Cockcroft

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Imported from a Blogger post I wrote in 2008. Code shared on GitHub For some reason I seem to find time to write code in R when I’m on an airplane. The last two trips I made resulted in significant enhancements and debugging of the code for my headroom plot. The set of data is now split into ranges and color coded.

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SQL Performance

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Borrowing and adapting code from a previous post, Examining the Performance Impact of an Adhoc Workload , we will first create two stored procedures. CustomerID , c. Customers c JOIN Sales. CustomerTransactions ct ON c. GROUP BY c. CustomerID , c. Example Scenario. AccountOpenedDate , COUNT ( ct.

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