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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

Or follow all of the New York Times columnists equally? This is good news for everyone except those who have huge legacy investments in large-batch distribution. Because of the incredible array of information available, we have a desperate need for filtering mechanisms. Does anyone really watch the full NBC lineup anymore?

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

For example, Friendster was famously vertically partitioned at one time in its growth curve. 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. Key-based partitioning. to store it.

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The “Good” Student « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

You don’t get grades for having resiliency, curiosity, agility, resourcefulness, pattern recognition and tenacity. If one looks at the total pool of college vs non-college people, and what each group’s career trajectories look like in the aggregate, I think Google’s position is more justifiable. I love Google.