VI · Distributed-systems pioneers
Adrian Cockcroft
1958–
Sun · Netflix · AWS · serverless evangelist
Gave us
Engineered Netflix's migration from a monolith to AWS microservices. Created and open-sourced the Simian Army (Chaos Monkey + friends). Defined the operational template every cloud migration since has copied.
The story
When Cockcroft joined Netflix in 2007, the company ran in a single data centre. Within five years it ran in AWS at multi-region scale, with a fault-injection testing culture that became the default for every large engineering org.
One more thing
Has personally migrated approximately one entire Netflix to AWS, give or take.