3 days agoWhat Adrian Did Next — Part 2 — Sun MicrosystemsI spent six years at Cambridge Consultants, building some interesting systems, managing our Sun workstations and learning a lot, but by then Sun had opened a sales office across the street, and I wanted to find out what they were going to release next, before everyone else. So in 1988…Sun Microsystems12 min read
May 23What Adrian Did Next — Part 1 — Starting OutMy bio starts with this phrase “Adrian Cockcroft has had a long career working at the leading edge of technology, and is fascinated by what happens next.” About every 5–7 years the thing I was working on that was going to happen next matured and went mainstream, and something new…Cambridge Consultants4 min read
May 23What Adrian Did Next — RetireAfter a long career working at the leading edge of technology, I retire from full time work on June 3rd 2022. I joined Amazon in October 2016, as a VP in AWS Marketing focused on building relationships with customers. I keynoted 20 AWS Summits around the world, presented on technical…Retire2 min read
Jan 17Trends and Topics for 2022A year ago I did a talk at re:Invent called Architecture Trends and Topics for 2021, so I thought it was worth seeing how they played out and updating them for the coming year. These are personal thoughts across a wide range of topics, I’m not speaking for my current…Sustainability4 min read
Nov 16, 2021Map Camp 2021 — links to my maps from the Green Economy session with Carlota Perez and Andra SoneaThis year at Map Camp, I was happy to have my Amazon Sustainability team sponsor the Sustainability track, sharing the support with Liam Maxwell of AWS UK Public Sector, and to share the online stage with two awesome speakers, the famous economist Carlota Perez — author of the book Technological…Wardley Maps7 min read
Oct 2, 2021Why I support the IATSE strikeDiscussing university with Rae went something like: “I’d like to go to film school”, “That’s a tough business to get into, but if you ever get invited to an award ceremony, we get to come, OK?”. Many years later, as you can see in the photo, we got to be…Netflix3 min read
Feb 12, 2021The day that I gave the founder of Tesla a ride in my Lotus Elise in return for a ride in his T-Zero prototypeThere’s an interesting video interview on CNBC with Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning, the original founders of Tesla, that talks about the early days, and how they decided to base the Tesla Roadster on the Lotus Elise. I had a very small part in helping them along that path at…Tesla4 min read
Dec 8, 2020Enhanced headroom plot in RImported 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…Rlang3 min read
Dec 1, 2020AWS re:Invent 2020 talks related to sustainabilityI’ve recently become involved with the new Linux Foundation Open Source Climate Finance organization (OS-Climate). I’m helping manage AWS contributions to the project, as we build an open source data lake and analysis service that can be used to model climate related asset risks for investors. This includes physical asset…AWS2 min read
Mar 24, 2020Cloud Native Cost OptimizationOne of the impacts of COVID-19 has been a large rapid unplanned change in business activity for most of the global economy. There are several outcomes, some markets like work from home tools and services, healthcare and grocery retail are extra busy, social media applications are extra busy but their…Cost Optimization2 min read
