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. One of the Java engineers on my teamJian Wujoined me to help figure out the API.

C++ 88

C++ Mobile Hardware Java 88

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. The ability to run in a degraded but available state during an outage is still a marked improvement over completely stopping traffic flow.

Traffic 229

Traffic Latency Cloud C++ 229

All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

Since we launched Amazon RDS for MySQL in October 2009 , it has become one of the most popular services on AWS, with customers such as Intuit using the service to keep up with the steep increase in traffic during the tax season. Amazon RDS currently supports SQL Server 2008 R2 and plans to add support for SQL Server 2012 later this year.

Cloud 92

Cloud Development AWS Servers 92

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

” Consider the structural evolutions of that theme: Stage 1: Hadoop and Big Data By 2008, many companies found themselves at the intersection of “a steep increase in online activity” and “a sharp decline in costs for storage and computing.” And it (wisely) stuck to implementations of industry-standard algorithms.

Hardware 134

Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 134

The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Their existing system was a combination of a custom AS/400 based RPG system (that had started life on a System/34), a fat client Visual Basic application, and thin-client Java tools, all of which required manual (operator) steps for data integration with one another.

Strategy 40

Strategy Java Code Systems 40