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Technical Signs Of A Well-Managed Business

YoungUpstarts

Today, you can measure if a company is well-managed from how it implements and uses technology. 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.

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Developer Focus: Dominic St Pierre, Focus Centric

YoungUpstarts

Bunker is a project management and online billing service built by small web application developer Focus Centric that is positioned for use by freelancers and small businesses. St Pierre was looking for a software package that met the needs of a freelancer – he still freelances – and helped manage the steps of a contract process.

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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

Panel: Cary Davis , Managing Director, Warburg Pincus, Moderator: Ben Fried, Chief Information Officer, Google, runs in-house technology. Adrian Kunzle, Head of Firmwide Engineering & Architecture (CTO), JP Morgan Chase. We’re advising and relationship management, at the end of the day. Formerly MS IT department.

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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

And.NET’s languages (C#, IronPython, managed C++, etc.) The VAST majority of what you’re dealing with (HTTP, MIME, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, relational databases, page template, authentication, session management, caching, etc.) Do you manage to hire any programmers in the first place. are also reasonable and flexible.

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