3 days agoWhat Adrian Did Next — Joined OrionX to do some analyst and advisory workI retired from Amazon and full time corporate work at the beginning of June 2022. However I’m signing up to be a long term advisor at a few companies where I already have good connections, and also was introduced to an opportunity to do some consulting advisory work for a…Sun Microsystems3 min read
Aug 2What Adrian Did Next: 2022 Conference AppearancesI gave a talk at Monitorama in Portland Oregon in June, which set out the idea that carbon is just another metric to monitor, and that in a few years most of the monitoring and performance tuning tools are going to be reporting and optimizing for carbon alongside latency, throughput…Dev Ops2 min read
Jun 21What 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. …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