Welcoming Adrian Cockcroft to the AWS Team

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Post by werner » Mon, Oct 24, 2016, 4:01 PM UTC

Welcoming Adrian Cockcroft to the AWS Team
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Re: Welcoming Adrian Cockcroft to the AWS Team

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Post by anujdeshpande » Mon, Oct 24, 2016, 7:04 PM UTC

Woah ! Big catch. He's obviously got some super dope scale experience from Netflix. Can only mean good things for AWS, considering MSFT is snatching some big cos as customers.

Re: Welcoming Adrian Cockcroft to the AWS Team

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Post by yoda_sl » Mon, Oct 24, 2016, 7:10 PM UTC

Nice addition to AWS team! Adrian was my boss at Netflix when Netflix started the transition to the cloud. Not only Adrian is a great smart guy but he had always been happy to share his knowledge. He was the best engineering manager I ever had in my career by a huge factor! Congrats Adrian!

Re: Welcoming Adrian Cockcroft to the AWS Team

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Post by throwaway_xx9 » Mon, Oct 24, 2016, 7:15 PM UTC

anujdeshpande wrote: post #2

Woah ! Big catch. He's obviously got some super dope scale experience from Netflix. Can only mean good things for AWS, considering MSFT is snatching some big cos as customers.

> He's obviously got some super dope scale experience from Netflix.

Actually, it's the other way around. He designed and built it, and Netflix learned scale experience from him.

Probably the most influential and successful IT manager in human history. (I worked in his group at Netflix.)

Re: Welcoming Adrian Cockcroft to the AWS Team

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Post by neom » Mon, Oct 24, 2016, 8:06 PM UTC

AWESOME NEWS!!! Very fortunate to call Adrian a friend, truly an incredibly kind and generous human. He gave me a lot of really good advice when I was working at DigitalOcean, so I can only imagine how much of a benefit he will be to AWS. Awesome awesome awesome.

Re: Welcoming Adrian Cockcroft to the AWS Team

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Post by tzakrajs » Mon, Oct 24, 2016, 8:11 PM UTC

Congratulations, Adrian!

Re: Welcoming Adrian Cockcroft to the AWS Team

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Post by mooreds » Mon, Oct 24, 2016, 8:25 PM UTC

throwaway_xx9 wrote: post #4

anujdeshpande wrote: post #2

Woah ! Big catch. He's obviously got some super dope scale experience from Netflix. Can only mean good things for AWS, considering MSFT is snatching some big cos as customers.

> He's obviously got some super dope scale experience from Netflix. Actually, it's the other way around. He designed and built it, and Netflix learned scale experience from him. Probably the most influential and successful IT manager in human history. (I worked in his group at Netflix.)

> Probably the most influential and successful IT manager in human history.

Wow. That's a big claim. I'd think that Fred Brooks (System 360) or Steve Jobs (the mac) might be in the running as well.

Re: Welcoming Adrian Cockcroft to the AWS Team

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Post by dgacmu » Mon, Oct 24, 2016, 8:43 PM UTC

mooreds wrote: post #7

throwaway_xx9 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> He's obviously got some super dope scale experience from Netflix. Actually, it's the other way around. He designed and built it, and Netflix learned scale experience from him. Probably the most influential and successful IT manager in human history. (I worked in his group at Netflix.)

> Probably the most influential and successful IT manager in human history. Wow. That's a big claim. I'd think that Fred Brooks (System 360) or Steve Jobs (the mac) might be in the running as well.

Urs?

Re: Welcoming Adrian Cockcroft to the AWS Team

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Post by justicezyx » Mon, Oct 24, 2016, 9:53 PM UTC

dgacmu wrote: post #8

mooreds wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Probably the most influential and successful IT manager in human history. Wow. That's a big claim. I'd think that Fred Brooks (System 360) or Steve Jobs (the mac) might be in the running as well.

Urs?

I'd say Urs is on another level than all known eng manager to the public. He directed the evolution of Google's infrastructure, which pretty much is always at the forefront of modern large scale infrastructure.

I work at Google

Re: Welcoming Adrian Cockcroft to the AWS Team

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Post by gist » Mon, Oct 24, 2016, 10:10 PM UTC

mooreds wrote: post #7

throwaway_xx9 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> He's obviously got some super dope scale experience from Netflix. Actually, it's the other way around. He designed and built it, and Netflix learned scale experience from him. Probably the most influential and successful IT manager in human history. (I worked in his group at Netflix.)

> Probably the most influential and successful IT manager in human history. Wow. That's a big claim. I'd think that Fred Brooks (System 360) or Steve Jobs (the mac) might be in the running as well.

> Wow. That's a big claim.

This is all so ridiculous. As if something like this can actually be measured and all of the "contestants" are even known.