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The Rise Of Cloud Computing

YoungUpstarts

This migration to the cloud helps to meet their operational needs, as well as to reduce costs and increase agility and efficiency. In addition to small businesses, cloud adoption by governments has been growing in the Asia region. Cloud Security Concerns.

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The cloud landscape described, categorized, and compared

www.theenterprisearchitect.eu

The Enterprise Architect building an Agile Enterprise Home MDD PaaS Startup Presentations About The cloud landscape described, categorized, and compared October 12, 2013 Johan Den Haan 10 comments “I work for a PaaS company” I answered him. This means that more advanced features like caching, snapshotting, high availability, etc.

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The Future of Internet & Cars

Agile VC

In a world where a human isn’t the primary operator, you will have more visually impaired or physically handicapped persons driving themselves or more elderly persons or even children. A 9 year old could hop in a driverless car and drive themselves to school for example.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

This is true of most web application servers, caches like memcached, and all of the network infrastructure that connects them. Im talking about the actual data-fetching operation. For example, you might notice that caching gets a lot easier if you have good metadat about which queries are associated with the same entity.

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Ardent 3: Supercomputer Porn

Steve Blank

Supercomputers With the introduction in 1976 of the Cray-1 , supercomputers were defined as the fastest vector-processing computer , one in which a single instruction performed operations on an array rather than a single number. Cray’s first customers were the U.S. Gracias for another great read Steve! this article provided the answers.

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

blog.expensify.com

net is the only framework in which you can build an app for all the major mobile operating systems (iphone, android, wp7). The VAST majority of what you’re dealing with (HTTP, MIME, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, relational databases, page template, authentication, session management, caching, etc.) It’s an *freaking open source*.net

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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

The next time you needed to handle that page, you could take advantage of caching for excellent performance. But I think debates about which language, which operating system, even which editor (emacs, vim, Visual Studio) can go on forever. This sounds like a good trade-off, but it turned out to be a classic sub-optimization.

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