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A framework for categorizing and comparing cloud platforms

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Agile Development. Application PaaS (aPaas) : language runtimes such as JVM and others that allows deployment of code written in different languages such as Java, Python, Go, Node.js, Grails, Scala, PHP etc. product design. Design (9). Agile Development (6). Social Marketing and Sales. Sales Activity Management.

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

If youre trying to design an architecture to maximize agility, how can that work if some people are working in TDD and others not? Platform selection and technical design - if your business strategy is to create a low-burn, highly iterative lean startup, youd better be using foundational tools that make that easy rather than hard.

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Lessons Learned: The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time

Startup Lessons Learned

The new design improved on the old one in several ways, but these improvements didnt translate all the way through the funnel. Usually, I think that means youve lost some good aspect of the old design. The designers might be telling you that the new design looks much better than the old one, and thats probably true.

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Lessons Learned on Mashable today

Startup Lessons Learned

Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets. Learning is better than optimization (the local ma.

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Lessons Learned: Greasemonkey compiler

Startup Lessons Learned

I know some of those compilers are no longer available (some are hosted, others are not), so I took the liberty of putting up a copy of the PHP Greasemonkey Compiler. Ive made some pretty minor modifications to it, mostly in the way of simple usability changes. As I make more, youll find them (with source) at my Greasemonkey Compiler page.

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Waves of technology platforms

Startup Lessons Learned

Meanwhile, we were building our app in PHP, using a generic DB driver and mysql, "for the time being." Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Expo SF (May.

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The cloud landscape described, categorized, and compared

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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. “Ah, okay, great”, and he moved to another subject. startupcto'

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