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Adrian Cockcroft, Technology Fellow at Battery Ventures and Former Netflix Cloud Architect Pioneer

Adrian Cockcroft

Biography: Adrian Cockcroft

Adrian is a Technology Fellow at Battery Ventures where he participates in conversations with large enterprise companies planning a move to cloud native, and SaaS vendors who are re-architecting for scale, to understand the gaps and demands of this market. With that context, Adrian will work in the Battery Ventures team that is looking for opportunities to fund companies who are enabling the transformation of enterprise IT, and will also provide advice and mentoring for portfolio companies.

In Adrian's previous role as the director of architecture for the Cloud Systems team at Netflix, he focused on availability, resilience, performance, and measurement of the Netflix cloud platform, and has presented at many conferences, including GOTO Aarhus, QCon San Francisco, Beijing and Tokyo. Adrian is also well known as the author of several books while a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems: Sun Performance and Tuning; Resource Management; and Capacity Planning for Web Services.

From 2004-2007 he was a founding member of eBay Research Labs. He graduated with a BSc in Applied Physics from The City University, London.  

Twitter: @adrianco

Presentation: Tuesday Morning Keynote - Speed and Scale: How to get there

Time: Tuesday 09:30 - 10:30 / Location: Gold Coast

To deliver software products at high velocity requires four things. First, a culture of innovation that can see and respond to opportunities. Second, the data and analytics to evaluate alternatives. Third, a culture that can make decisions and assign resources quickly. Fourth, agile development and self service deployment. A fine grain loosely coupled architecture scales as the team size grows, a freedom and responsibility culture provides autonomy for innovation and fast decision making, unstructured "Big Data" analytics gets answers quickly, cloud removes the latency of resource allocation, and DevOps removes the coordination latency that slows down deployment. Traditional enterprise architectures are based on monolithic applications and relational databases. Cloud native architectures are based on buiding single function REST-based microservices that support integration across denormalized NoSQL data stores and a wide range of web services. This talk will also discuss strategies, patterns and pathways to perform a gradual migration towards cloud native.