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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

Both Sides of the Table

In 2003 one of their first investments was Qiigo, Mike Yavondite’s company. The second phase will be who can get the right combination lean back, lean forward, interaction, enhanced data, and make it fun. They aggregate other people’s content and curate it into categories. So it is a combination of markets and people.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

More common is to use a one-way hashing algorithm to map the data to be accessed to one of the shards that store it. Using memcacheds multiget, which allows the fetching of many keys in parallel, I have written code to aggregate all the shard lookups for a given page and prefetch them, reducing the overhead even further.