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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

Ive taught everyone from hard-core programmers to scripters to HTML-designers to use it properly. 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. And implementing it is easy, too.

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Special: 72 Israeli Companies Exhibit at the 2010 Mobile World Congress

VC Cafe

Asocs – Founded in 2003, ASOCS develops and markets MultiComms™. mobile telephone operators, broadcasters, content aggregators and media agents. from any source (RSS, HTML, email, etc.) Allot Service Gateway solutions for mobile broadband are compliant with 3G, 4G/LTE and WiMax networks and provide full cell awareness.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

Tony P great, though meebo’s place as a “successful&# start up is still open to debate – from consumer IM aggregator to white label IM, still not making big $$. also, just to clarify, the first idea we worked on that we called “meebo&# back in 2003 was my idea. This is the blog post I needed to read.