Adrian Cockcroft
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what they talk about
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where they keep going back
- OSCON2 editions2017–2019
- GOTO Chicago2 editions2014–2018
- Craft Conference2 editions2019–2025
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on a stage with
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who talks about the same things
- Michael Nygard11 talks
- Adrian Hornsby14 talks
- Jeremy Edberg6 talks
- Max Korbacher28 talks
- Casey Rosenthal12 talks
- Paul Stack21 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| Directing a Swarm of Agents for Fun and Profit | Enterprise AI Summit Spring 2026 | 2026-04-09 |
Directs how teams of AI agents actually build software: uses GasTown/Roof Flow for multi-agent specialization (testing, architecting, researching), bakes… | ||
| Platform Team Structures and Concerns | Craft Conference 2025 | 2025-05-29 |
Argues platforms are a layered, evolving stack (not one monolith) and gives concrete practices: use AWS as stable base, split internal vs external platforms… | ||
| Adrian’s Greatest Hits, B-Sides & Re-issues | YOW! Melbourne 2022 | 2022-12-08 |
Reruns of Netflix architecture show concrete moves: migrate to AWS, replace Oracle with Cassandra (three replicas per write), run Chaos Monkey to force… | ||
| Failing Over without Falling Over | Chaos Conf 2020 | 2020-10-06 |
Uses STPA to enumerate failover hazards, links observability to control models, and treats near misses as data points. Recommends three-way replication across… | ||
| Keynote : Modern App Development | Ray Summit 2020 | 2020-09-30 |
Serverless-first development claims dramatic speedups: teams build functional prototypes in a day and one team rewrote a stalled nine‑month project over a… | ||
| Open Source Force Multipliers | OSCON 2019 | 2019-07-15 |
MongoDB treats open source mainly as marketing, keeps core repo contributions low, and focuses on a paid cloud product. MongoDB Atlas is priced as a cloud… | ||
| Building in security for open source projects | OSCON 2019 | 2019-07-15 |
Team grows from a handful to a dedicated open source org with added management and specialists, pushes back on vendors turning projects into proprietary or… | ||
| Speeding Up Innovation | Craft Conference 2019 | 2019-05-07 |
Argues companies must measure and shrink time-to-value by moving to small, automated changes with feature flags, AB tests and cheap builds — one example turns… | ||
| Innovating at speed | Web Summit 2018 | 2018-11-05 |
Formula 1 cars stream 120 sensors producing about 3 GB per car per race and roughly 1,500 data points per second into on-track datacenters; historical archives… | ||
| Dynamic Non-Events | DevOpsDays Silicon Valley 2018 | 2018-05-17 |
Argues that safety is a dynamic non-event and proves it with concrete failures and margins: an MD‑80 jack‑screw wore to its tolerance after lubrication… | ||
| Developing a Chaos Architecture Mindset | GOTO Chicago 2018 | 2018-04-24 |
Argues cloud availability needs fast detection, regular failover tests and deliberate fault injection: DNS lapses, expired certificates and a flooded data… | ||
| Dynamic Non-Events | GOTO Chicago 2018 | 2018-04-24 |
Argues safety is the active creation of dynamic non‑events, gives the concrete failure chain behind Alaska Airlines Flight 261: a single jack‑screw thread wore… | ||
| Developing a Chaos Architecture Mindset | O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference New York 2018 | 2018-02-26 |
Explains concrete chaos engineering practices: a four layers model (infrastructure redundancy, a switching layer that routes around failures, application… | ||
| Keynote: Cloud Native at AWS | KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2017 | 2017-12-06 |
AWS announces a managed Kubernetes service EKS that runs an upstream control plane for customers, a new Fargate option to run managed containers without owning… | ||
| Open source, open data, open standards with Adrian Cockcroft and Zaheda Bhorat | OSCON 2017 | 2017-05-08 |
AWS announces a dedicated outreach team for AWS Open to coordinate code, data and standards work, with contributions back to open source since 2005 and… | ||
| It's Simple... | GOTO Accelerate London 2016 | 2016-11-17 |
Argues that breaking monoliths into microservices reduces overall complexity by enforcing interfaces, cites Netflix OSS and an org-driven architecture, reports… | ||
| It's Simple… | GOTO Stockholm 2016 | 2016-05-09 |
Argues that scaling demands clear boundaries and self‑service tooling, not diagrams: Netflix moves from a monolith to 100+ Cassandra clusters behind APIs… | ||
| Systems for Innovation | DevOps Enterprise Summit 2015 | 2015-11-03 |
Netflix uses a lean system: the freedom and responsibility culture deck becomes a screening filter (it gets millions of views) and the compensation design… | ||
| Welcome Keynote | GOTO London 2015 | 2015-09-16 |
Argument for developer ownership of production code with microservices sized so one developer understands them, continuous delivery where the typical build… | ||
| Panel | GOTO London 2015 | 2015-09-16 |
Panel reports a measurable link between DevOps practices and firm performance using a cross-sectional survey with objective measures (stock tickers, company… | ||
| Monitoring Microservices: A Challenge | O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference 2015 | 2015-03-16 |
Monitoring microservices becomes a solvable test problem with an open source generator that simulates realistic stacks, produces metrics, and scales to 100,000… | ||
| Migrating to Cloud Native with Microservices | GOTO Berlin 2014 | 2014-11-06 |
Moves encoding and logging workloads to AWS first, then shifts the entire customer-facing site to cloud by Christmas 2010; uses S3 + EMR for logs and Hadoop… | ||
| Fast Delivery | GOTO Copenhagen 2014 | 2014-09-25 |
Describes moving Netflix to AWS, building a microservice platform with Cassandra, Docker/AMIs, and a 200 terabyte SSD cluster used for quick infrastructure… | ||
| Deep Dive into the Cloud Native Open Source with NetflixOSS | GOTO Copenhagen 2014 | 2014-09-25 |
Catalogue of 40 NetflixOSS components with concrete outcomes: Edda black‑box recorder captures every AWS and Eureka state change for historical debugging… | ||
| Speed & Scale: How to Get There | GOTO Chicago 2014 | 2014-05-20 |
Netflix moves its customer-facing systems to the cloud in 2010 and replaces Oracle with Cassandra, running production clusters like a 288-node Cassandra… | ||
| Dystopia as a Service | HotCloud '13 | 2013-06-25 |
Claims a cloud-native stack built on AWS, Cassandra and S3 handles real traffic: 2 PB in S3, 100+ billion events per day, ~1/3 of North American fixed-peak… | ||
| Dystopia as a Service | Collaboration Summit 2013 | 2013-04-15 |
Argues that modern services run on ephemeral Linux AMIs with thousands of Tomcat JVMs (5–10k web servers), deploy via Asgard, store masters in AWS with… | ||
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