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Lessons Learned: Great open source scalability tools from Danga

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, September 5, 2008 Great open source scalability tools from Danga If you are trying to build a scalable LAMP service, its always best to start with the original and still quite relevant presentation, from Brad Fitzpatrick when he was at LiveJournal. You can find the 2005 version here.

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Native App vs. Web App: Which Is Better for Mobile Commerce?

mashable.com

For brand loyalty and location hooks its actually a 3rd-Rail integration process ( foursquare and groupon, facebook ) There is a critical Key to this… having cache-able high performance entry for the user experience and some amount of offline functionality to support poor connectivity issue moments. All Rights Reserved. startupcto

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

You need to hear this from someone who has used.Net extensively, and then happily walked away from it to go open source: You are a wanker. And before you say.net is only for windows, checkout https://github.com/mono , it’s not an open source application. It’s an *freaking open source*.net

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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

When we started IMVU in 2004, we could rely on a staggering amount of open source software that jumpstarted our initial product offering. The next time you needed to handle that page, you could take advantage of caching for excellent performance. The only relevant "issue" you described is the large library of inbuilt functions.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. Hundreds of startups featured since 2005, will yours be next? High Quality, and open sourced! Mantis (Open source). Nagios (open source). Varnish Cache (reverse proxy).