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Technical Signs Of A Well-Managed Business

YoungUpstarts

CloudWatch is a logging and monitoring tool designed to help make monitoring even the most complex cloud architecture easy. Speaking of complex cloud architecture, businesses are no longer limited to only one cloud service either. The platform also has a security console to help you make necessary security changes. One IP for All.

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Developer Focus: Dominic St Pierre, Focus Centric

YoungUpstarts

St Pierre currently uses a cloud-based solution for his service – he uses AppHarbor as his PaaS (Platform as a Service) and Amazon AWS (S3, EC2, Simple Mail) for storage, background processes and emailing – although he does says that deploying an application on a cloud architecture can be tricky at first because resources generated by (..)

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One million HTTP RPS without load balancing is easy

TechEmpower

Especially poignant is the reduced architectural complexity that an application can reap if its performance requirement can be satisfied by a single server. But the simplified system architecture and cost advantage of high-performance options deserve some time in the sun. Spoiler: I feel bad for our workstations.

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

techblog.netflix.com

We picked a write oriented benchmark using the standard Cassandra "stress" tool that is part of the product, and Denis ran and analyzed the tests on Amazon EC2 instances. The time taken by EC2 to create 288 new instances was about 15 minutes out of our total of 66 minutes. All instances are created using the EC2 auto-scaler feature.

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Techies? Write Your Own Ticket In Southern California

blog.socaltech.com

cloud computing (Amazon AWS and EC2, etc.) and even bigger, architecture-level talent (particularly software architects who know how to scale a web based service or software). For bonus points, make sure the back end uses Amazon EC2 and S3. Social media related skills are also big, i.e. Facebook app development, and so on.

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FinTech Innovation Lab Launch Event – June 2, 2011

David Teten

Adrian Kunzle, Head of Firmwide Engineering & Architecture (CTO), JP Morgan Chase. Packaged platforms (Force.com/EC2/Azure) are much more likely to succeed than a pure infrastructure play. Andy Brown , Chief Technology Officer, UBS Tim Lyons, Senior Vice President, Technology Innovation Portfolio, Bank of America. 15 yrs at MS.

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

blog.expensify.com

The vast majority of patterns and architecture patterns that we see in PHP, Ruby and other scripting languages are incomplete implementations of stuff the Java and C# guys created. On programmers, language criticisms; If I were working with.NET and had a solid.NET architecture, I would hire.NET developers. Same with J2EE.

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