Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I had to setup a week of talks by all the relevant product teams, with a hundred or so of the most experienced systems engineers from all over the world as an audience. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc. It was the first database sizing guide Sun had ever produced.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

The Morning Paper

MAY 27, 2019

Last week we saw the benefits of rethinking memory and pointer models at the hardware level when it came to object storage and compression ( Zippads ). CheriABI: enforcing valid pointer provenance and minimizing pointer privilege in the POSIX C run-time environment Davis et al., ASPLOS’19. And an afterword!

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C++ Hardware Virtualization Benchmarking 61

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

The Green Web Foundation maintains an ever-growing database of web hosts who are either wholly powered by renewable energy or are at least committed to being carbon neutral. For the last three years, the SustainableUX conference has seen experts in web sustainability sharing their knowledge across an array of web-based disciplines.

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Website Performance Website Energy Performance 74

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 125

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Figure out how much delay is built into your observability system, it may be taking samples once a minute, processing them for a minute or two, then watching for several bad samples in a row before it triggers an alert. that are used across multiple applications. The cost of failure should be weighed against the cost of mitigation.

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Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 52

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Figure out how much delay is built into your observability system, it may be taking samples once a minute, processing them for a minute or two, then watching for several bad samples in a row before it triggers an alert. that are used across multiple applications. The cost of failure should be weighed against the cost of mitigation.

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Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 53