Adrian Cockcroft
Cloud Architect, Netflix. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
Adrian Cockcroft helped lead Netflix's major migration from datacenters to the cloud and from a monolithic to a microservices architecture. He has shared insights on large-scale architectural and organizational transitions during rapid business growth.
Everything Adrian Cockcroft said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Cockcroft: Major tech migrations require a forcing function over incremental change
“And sometimes you find incremental change a good theory, but in practice, You have to have a big enough stick to hit everybody with, to make everything move at once.”
Cockcroft: Open source from Big Tech makes proprietary software startups harder
“So what you're seeing now is Twitter and Facebook and Netflix and Google and LinkedIn producing the stuff you actually want to use, which has already been tested at volume. And then it's actually much harder to build a proprietary software company because you'…”
Cockcroft: Big banks maintain an illusion of cloud security compliance
“And a lot of what I'm seeing is a big banks and people like that. They have their existing policy frameworks and rules, and they're trying to apply it in the new world. And it looks the same. So they're happy because they're compliant, but they don't actually …”
Cockcroft: Quarterly software releases pose an existential threat to legacy companies
“There's an existential threat here that if you're doing quarterly releases and your competitors doing daily releases and continuous delivery, You're going to fall so far behind in the user experience that you're just going to suffer, right?”
Cockcroft: End-to-end tracing is essential for monitoring serverless systems
“You end up doing, figuring out how to do end to end tracing as the only way you can monitor things rather than being a special case like it is now.”
Cockcroft: Lower network overhead enables microservices 1/100th the size of SOA
“On relatively slow CPUs compared to what we have today on relatively slow networks, we were processing big fat lumps of XML and passing it around, and we were really only able to break the application into a few large chunks because the overhead of all of the …”
Cockcroft: Test major tech shifts using small pioneer teams and fast experiments
“So I think the trick is to get a small team, go very deep, discover what you can and run a whole bunch of these Little projects where you're trying to learn as much as possible with the smallest possible input.”
Cockcroft: Microservices require shifting enterprises from project-based to product-based teams
“What you see with traditional enterprise siloed organizations is they're actually having to do a reorgan set up teams that own, that are responsible for services, and that's, it's somewhat unnatural for the way they're currently set up, but I'm seeing an incre…”
Cockcroft: Microservices sharing a single database create fragile distributed monoliths
“And it turns out if you don't break apart your database backend, and you just create lots of services to talk to it, you've actually created what's called a distributed monolith, which has all the same fragility of the monolith, and you can't update things ind…”
Cockcroft: Putting developers on call incentivizes reliable code and safer releases
“If you put a developer on call, they write really reliable code and they don't release code on Friday afternoons and because they want a quiet weekend and, you know, they learn a bunch of practices about having a, what it's like to be on call and how not to br…”
Cockcroft: Containers are one of the fastest enterprise tech adoptions
“Containers came along really over the last two years and one of the fastest takeovers of enterprise computing we've ever seen. It's quite, quite remarkable how quickly they were able to colonize the enterprise space.”
Cockcroft: Amazon threat forced retail and media to adopt cloud architectures first
“This is also moving across industries. We've seen obviously media and entertainment and to some extent retail We're early movers, mostly because of the threat of Amazon themselves, causing retailers to step up to re-engineering. We're now seeing fintech or Wal…”
Cockcroft: Serverless architecture disrupts monitoring market with only two viable tools
“The monitoring tools industry is right now being disrupted pretty heavily by serverless. There's only one or two tools that have really come into existence in the last year or two that have a effectively a way of processing stuff that this is this ephemeral an…”
Cockcroft: Netflix had 100 engineers deploying a single monolith every two weeks
“We started off basically running away from a monolith. We had over a hundred people every two weeks trying to get all the code they'd written in the last two weeks jammed into one code base, get it through QA and get that out into production.”
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