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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. One IP for All. Speaking of complex cloud architecture, businesses are no longer limited to only one cloud service either. The use of a proxy server is another sign of a well-managed business.

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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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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. there are start ups who are legitimately using.net because they don’t need to look directly into the tcp/ip stack. Purchase IP from the vendors.

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