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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

We can take advantage of the many open source libraries out there that dont scale especially well, and write as much non-scalable code as we want. nice post April 2, 2009 11:00 PM web design India said. We can start, as most startups do, with a single, central master DB. Expo SF (May.

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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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When It’s Darkest Men See the Stars

Steve Blank

Today open source software has slashed the cost of software development from millions of dollars to thousands. Risk capital has emerged in China, India and other countries where risk taking, innovation and liquidity is encouraged, on a scale previously only seen in the U.S. or Euro-centric phenomenon.

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Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

Today open source software has slashed the cost of software development from millions of dollars to thousands. Risk capital has emerged in China, India and other countries where risk taking, innovation and liquidity are encouraged, on a scale previously only seen in the U.S. or Euro-centric phenomenon.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

And writing a step-by-step walk-through might be important if you outsource your work to India or China where they are used to work by direction and nothing more, or if dealing with a 15 year old kid, programming from his parents basement. In it theres meeting with a guru in India who defines what a guru really does.

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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. High Quality, and open sourced! Mantis (Open source). Nagios (open source). Panda (Open source). launchpad (bzr only, also only open source projects).