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Benchmarking Cassandra Scalability on AWS - Over a million writes per second

techblog.netflix.com

Writes stress a data store all the way to the disks, while read benchmarks may only exercise the in-memory cache. We use these for read intensive workloads to cache more data in memory. 0 Key cache size / save period in seconds: 200000.0/14400 ► 2010. (8). Both these instance types have a one Gbit/s network.

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

VC Cafe

A bout 50,000 visitors from 200 countries are expected to attend the 2010 GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week, starting tomorrow February 15th. VC Cafe's own little 'cloud' for MWC 2010, taken from the Israeli IMA brochure. The IMA expects the companies to have more than 4,000 meetings during the conference.

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

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You can measure this yourself: go to any list of startups, maybe look at YCombinator’s recent graduate class , or Scoble’s list of picks for 2010 , or Sequoia’s list of seed companies — or go find a list you like better. Purchase IP from the vendors. Like what?! it’s easy to stand against something.

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Startup Resources

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Varnish Cache (reverse proxy). IP Location Tools. British Library Business & IP Centre : Funded by the London Development Agency, the British Library supports inventors, small businesses and entrepreneurs from that first spark of inspiration to successfully launching and developing a business. mod_perlite (Perl). Xtranormal.