Partner and Analyst
OrionX
Adrian Cockcroft is a technologist and strategist with broad experience from the bits to the boardroom, in both enterprise and consumer-oriented businesses, from startups to some of the largest companies in the world, equally at home with hardware and software, development and operations. He’s best known as the cloud architect for Netflix during their trailblazing migration to AWS and was a very early practitioner and advocate of DevOps, microservices, and chaos engineering, helping bring these concepts to the wider audience they have today.
He spent the last few years as a VP at Amazon deeply immersed in the dual challenges of helping Amazon itself - one of the largest companies in the world - become more sustainable, and via AWS - one of the largest technology suppliers in the world - helping its enterprise and public sector customers become more sustainable. With European regulations in place, and the US following a similar path, most large organizations are confronted with new requirements to report on their ability to operate sustainably, and the physical and transition risks they face.
There is an industry wide fascination with the success of both Netflix and Amazon, their culture and ideas, and Adrian has been distilling these learnings and sharing them with executives for many years. The Cloud for CEOs booklet - Measure Innovation with One Metric - 2019 is a short summary of his thoughts.
Adrian worked at Sun Microsystems for many years and wrote the Sun Performance and Tuning book that can still be found on many technologist’s bookshelves. He was a distinguished engineer in the performance engineering team and chief architect of the High Performance Technical Computing team led by Shahin Khan. Re-joining Shahin as a Partner and Analyst at OrionX continues a friendship and working relationship that has been in place for decades.
Adrian led the process of joining and represented Amazon on the board of both the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), and the Open Source Climate foundation (OS-Climate). He was previously an independent board member for European IT service provider Trifork, and while at Sun, helped form the Enterprise Grid Alliance. He’s been a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) since 2016.
He's held past advisory positions at the following companies (acquired by): DeepDyve, Liquid Robotics (Boeing), Apcera (Ericsson), Ayla Networks, NGINX (F5), Docker, Instana (IBM), Gremlin, and will announce some additional advisory positions soon.
Adrian has a BSc in Applied Physics and Electronics from The City University, London, UK. He’s a frequent speaker and keynoted many events for AWS including many of the AWS Global Summit series, and has presented at many events such as the Monitorama, GOTO, YOW, QCon and DevOps Days conferences.
Follow Adrian on Twitter @adrianco and LinkedIn at /adriancockcroft.
Talks I've Given
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Serverless First
Featuring Adrian Cockcroft
Adrian Cockcroft, VP Sustainability Architecture at Amazon will share the latest practices, features, patterns and tools from AWS Lambda that have been released in the past 6 months.
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Workshop - Cloud Native Architecture - Words of Experience, Bits of Advice
Featuring Adrian Cockcroft
Adrian has a unique experience as an expert in Cloud Architecture gained from his work at eBay, Netflix, through Netflix OSS, working with startups and enterprises at Battery Ventures, and most recently as VP Architecture at AWS. In this workshop, Adrian will share his experience and advice on...
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Speeding Up Innovation
Featuring Adrian Cockcroft
To be competitive today organizations need to optimize for time to value using continuous delivery, know how to build efficient and scalable cloud native serverless applications, and use chaos engineering to ensure strategic workloads are extremely resilient. This talk will cover current best...
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Workshop - Cloud Native Architecture - Words of Experience, Bits of Advice
Featuring Adrian Cockcroft
Adrian has a unique experience as an expert in Cloud Architecture gained from his work at eBay, Netflix, through Netflix OSS, working with startups and enterprises at Battery Ventures, and most recently as VP Architecture at AWS. In this workshop, Adrian will share his experience and advice on...
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Speeding Up Innovation
Featuring Adrian Cockcroft
To be competitive today organizations need to optimize for time to value using continuous delivery, know how to build efficient and scalable cloud native serverless applications, and use chaos engineering to ensure strategic workloads are extremely resilient. This talk will cover current best...
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It’s Complicated…
Featuring Adrian Cockcroft
What does it mean to be complicated? How can we manage complexity when we scale up systems? Why do people find it horrifying when the internal complexity of monolithic apps is replaced by a “death star” diagram of the relationships between microservices? Why do people expect complex...
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It’s Complicated…
Featuring Adrian Cockcroft
What does it mean to be complicated? How can we manage complexity when we scale up systems? Why do people find it horrifying when the internal complexity of monolithic apps is replaced by a “death star” diagram of the relationships between microservices? Why do people expect complex...
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It’s Complicated…
Featuring Adrian Cockcroft
What does it mean to be complicated? How can we manage complexity when we scale up systems? Why do people find it horrifying when the internal complexity of monolithic apps is replaced by a “death star” diagram of the relationships between microservices? Why do people expect complex...
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Cloud Native Architecture at Netflix
Featuring Adrian Cockcroft
Netflix optimizes for speed of development and high availability. Our cloud native architecture has developers running what they wrote and deploying code continuously using tooling and and patterns that minimize the impact of any production issues, and provide rapid visibility and automated...
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Cloud Native Architecture at Netflix
Featuring Adrian Cockcroft
Netflix optimizes for speed of development and high availability. Our cloud native architecture has developers running what they wrote and deploying code continuously using tooling and and patterns that minimize the impact of any production issues, and provide rapid visibility and automated...
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Cloud Native Architecture at Netflix
Featuring Adrian Cockcroft
Netflix optimizes for speed of development and high availability. Our cloud native architecture has developers running what they wrote and deploying code continuously using tooling and and patterns that minimize the impact of any production issues, and provide rapid visibility and automated...
architecture-&-design