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Sun Performance and Tuning: Java and the Internet

Sun Performance and Tuning: Java and the Internet

For developers who want to design for performance and administrators who need to improve performance, this book is an indispensable reference.

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Fireside Chat with my Persona at Soopra 2.0 Launch

On May 14th, 2025 at the Perkins Coie offices in Palo Alto, Dr. T. Kim Parnell and I were interviewed by Soopra.ai founder and CEO Praveena…

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Fireside Chat with my Persona at Soopra 2.0 Launch

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Virtual Adrian Revisited as meGPT

Staircase at a bookshop in Porto, lots of authors, not enough time to read them all — Picture taken by Adrian

May 11

Virtual Adrian Revisited as meGPT

May 11

What Adrian Did Next — Part 4 — how I helped Netflix launch on iPad and iPhone — 2007 to 2010

I’ve been meaning to get another installment of my career history posted for a while. The 15th anniversary of the launch of the iPad gave…

Jan 27

What Adrian Did Next — Part 4 — how I helped Netflix launch on iPad and iPhone — 2007 to 2010

Jan 27

Will AWS Have Anything New To Say About Sustainability at re:Invent 2024? (Nope…)

There’s an old saying that any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered with a “no”. My hopes aren’t high, after spending the…

Nov 18, 2024

Will AWS Have Anything New To Say About Sustainability at re:Invent 2024? (Nope…)

Nov 18, 2024

Looking forward to returning to Multicore World — (New Zealand February 2025)

There are a few conferences I’ve attended around the world that are more about building communities than the content (although they often…

Nov 16, 2024

Looking forward to returning to Multicore World — (New Zealand February 2025)

Nov 16, 2024

RISC-V — the CPU you didn’t know you already have…

I just attended the RISC-V Summit (Oct 22nd, 2024 at the Santa Clara Convention Center) to get up to date on the latest developments. I’ve…

Oct 23, 2024

RISC-V — the CPU you didn’t know you already have…

Oct 23, 2024

Deep dive into NVIDIA Blackwell Benchmarks — where does the 4x training and 30x inference…

I’ve been trying to write this blog post since the announcements at GTC, and was planning to publish it as a story for The New Stack, but…

Sep 24, 2024

Deep dive into NVIDIA Blackwell Benchmarks — where does the 4x training and 30x inference…

Sep 24, 2024

Signs 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…

Dec 31, 2023

Signs that it’s time to leave a company…

Dec 31, 2023

Sustainability Talks from AWS re:Invent 2023 — Post Event Update with Videos

The Pantheon in Rome — Extremely sustainable architecture — photo by Adrian

Nov 26, 2023

The roof of the Pantheon in Rome with sunlight casting a bright spot on the side wall.

Nov 26, 2023

Measuring Carbon is Not Enough — Unintended Consequences

There are plenty of problems in the way of measuring the carbon footprint of an IT workload, and I’ve been leading a Green Software…

Nov 13, 2023

Measuring Carbon is Not Enough — Unintended Consequences

Nov 13, 2023

adrian cockcroft

adrian cockcroft

12.8K followers

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Work: Technology strategy advisor, Partner at OrionX.net (ex Amazon Sustainability, AWS, Battery Ventures, Netflix, eBay, Sun Microsystems, CCL)

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