adrian cockcroftSigns that it’s time to leave a company…When the company stops growing, when the founder moves on, when HR is calling the shots, when the executives care more about real estate…6 min read·Dec 31, 2023--11--11
adrian cockcroftSustainability Talks from AWS re:Invent 2023 — Post Event Update with VideosThe Pantheon in Rome — Extremely sustainable architecture — photo by Adrian18 min read·Nov 26, 2023--1--1
adrian cockcroftMeasuring Carbon is Not Enough — Unintended ConsequencesThere are plenty of problems in the way of measuring the carbon footprint of an IT workload, and I’ve been leading a Green Software…10 min read·Nov 13, 2023--2--2
adrian cockcroftAmazon 2022 Sustainability Report — 18 AWS Regions are 100% renewableAmazon released their 2022 sustainability report which includes an updated list of renewable AWS regions. For 2021 there were 12 AWS…3 min read·Jul 18, 2023--1--1
adrian cockcroftRapid development in R with lots of help from ChatGPTLike many people, I’ve been tinkering with ChatGPT to see what it can do, but I was working on developing some fairly complex analysis code…11 min read·Jul 5, 2023----
adrian cockcroftWhat I learned at GlueCon 2023 — Tipping Points and Generative AII’ve presented at GlueCon many times over the last decade or so. It’s an unusual event, held at the end of May at an isolated hotel…9 min read·Jun 2, 2023----
adrian cockcroftSo many bad takes — What is there to learn from the Prime Video microservices to monolith storyThe Prime Video team published this story: Scaling up the audio/video monitoring service and reducing costs by 90%, and the internet piled…4 min read·May 6, 2023--9--9
adrian cockcroftUpdate: Experiences renting electric cars from HertzPolestars and a few Teslas at Heathrow11 min read·Apr 25, 2023--7--7
adrian cockcroftAnalyst content at me.dmMedium launched me.dm a while ago as a gateway to the fediverse, but I haven’t seen much activity there. Posting here, I don’t see a Toot…1 min read·Apr 13, 2023----
adrian cockcroftDon’t follow the sun: Scheduling compute workloads to chase green energy can be counter-productiveWe want to reduce carbon emissions of our compute and storage workloads, and one way of doing this is to choose a time and place where the…4 min read·Apr 7, 2023--2--2