Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

We wanted an agile approach that would allow us to build our software architecture as we needed it, without downtime, but also without large amounts of up-front cost. Waves of technology platforms The lean startup Customer Development Engineering Greasemonkey compiler Great open source scalability tools from Danga Ideas.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 27, 2011

An irrepressible leader, Alfred was soon promoted to run all of engineering. By revolutionizing the enterprise computing market with the Application Server category, Alfred generated ferocious competition from industry behemoths: IBM, Oracle, Sun, HP, and the new, powerful open source movement. That’s what a CEO’s CEO does.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2020

They took an open source approach, inviting thousands of collaborators from around the world to contribute potential solutions. None of this would have been possible without the open source contributions of thousands of scientists around the world. We are working on a open-source drug discovery project against COVID-19.

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blogs.computerworlduk.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Simon Phipps Subscribe to this blog About Author Computer industry veteran Simon Phipps is now at large in the open source movement and sending dispatches with the latest news from the inside. It took many, many years for that doom to be made reality. Fine work, and many lessons learned , but sadly irrelevant to most of us.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

All this spells entirely different software architectures and priorities, requiring different kinds of technological expertise. Some of the big guys (notably Google, Facebook, LiveJournal) have embraced open source and the results are trickling out to us. Is the technology open sourced? Once again, check the blogs.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

Our open source counterparts who did solve the scale problem, had some serious hardware costs to deal with. So did I when I finally found myself building an app with real scalability, a few years later, but a combination of our just-in-time scalability technique and great open source scaling tools, made it manageable.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Their mission is to allow scientists and engineers to focus on the fundamental research needed to solve complex problems without the expensive and difficult data management usually required. You now run Pilosa, what you describe as “an open source, distributed index designed to help analyze huge datasets at UI latency.”

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

For the non-expert businessperson, this means advice about “what software to use&# but also guidance through the arcane arts of software development, including advice about programming languages, software development methodologies, web application frameworks, software architecture, revision control systems, and other hacker black magic.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

That engine of creativity has led to a catalog of something like 2 million virtual goods authored by a hundred thousand developers. In that same spirit, here are some suggestions for tactics you can use to increase the leverage of your product development efforts: Free and open source software (and even hardware ).

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

From a technical standpoint, in addition to being a skilled programmer, the CTO should have a background in architecture and database design. They need to be able to communicate as a peer to engineers and management. The CTO should always be looking for a better way to do things and inspiring the developers to do the same.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

I started out as a consultant, where I would literally be under the hood tuning the engine and fixing the things for the clients. The real power in WordPress came when they released the plug-in architecture, which basically allowed other developers to write little pieces of software that extends the functionality of WordPress.

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www.cscyphers.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Clearspring just did this; they held a Big Data meetup and were pretty open about trying to recruit engineers — which was a smart move in a target rich environment they created inside their own office. Enterprise Architecture (5). open source. That would get my attention, and the attention of others like me.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

The blockchain and Arcadeum architecture we’re developing enables the future of gaming, where players benefit from truly owning their digital items, privacy, provable fairness, open economies, and the ability to earn real-world value through play.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 14, 2017

However, we also want to make sure that we can give teams guidance about how to think about these services so that we don’t end up as a large set of mismatched services of vastly different sizes and no cohesive overarching architecture. At its heart, DDD outlines an approach to software development with a set of principals and tools.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 30, 2023

Auto-GPT is an experimental open-source application showcasing the capabilities of the GPT-4 language model. Github AutoGPT is essentially goal-seek Auto-GPT is an open-source application, created by game developer Toran Bruce Richards. Here’s how it’s going so far (+$217.85) and the strange ways it’s saving money. (1/n):

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readwrite.com

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

Tizen, meanwhile, enjoys broad industry backing from Intel, Samsung, NEC, Panasonic, Sprint, Huawei and Vodafone (among many others), and engineering stewardship in The Linux Foundation. If you’re looking for the one new technology or concept to learn as an HTML and JavaScript developer in 2013, its SPA architecture.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Its why, at my previous job, we were able to get a new engineer completely productive on their first day. Most engineers would ship code to production on their first day. Let me show you what this looked like after a few years of practicing five whys in the operations and engineering teams at IMVU.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 5, 2014

Going even deeper than just showing images in the search bar, what if the site search engine was able to continually learn & improve search relevancy by tracking visitors’s search queries & click-throughs? What’s worse, nearly 1/3 of the sites in the study suffered from poor information architecture.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

In particular, they may use service oriented architecture, or SoA. These are Java (from Sun),NET (from Microsoft), and three Open Source options: PHP, Python and Ruby. Its a powerful object oriented language, and is effectively Open Source. Java can be used in both Microsoft or Open Source environments.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, January 4, 2009 Sharding for startups The most important aspect of a scalable web architecture is data partitioning. So far, this is just a summary of what all of us who have attempted to build web-scale architectures considers obvious. Support multiple sharding schemes. Easy to understand.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

In Computer Science research, it is often better to open source an innovation than to go through the process of protecting it and then licensing it to a new startup. Government IT solutions can be iterative, they don't have to be designed down to the last detail by architecture astronauts before implementation.

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techblog.netflix.com

NOVEMBER 26, 2011

This team is currently looking for an additional engineer. We call the automation "Priam", after Cassandras father in Greek mythology, it runs in a separate Apache Tomcat JVM and we are in the process of removing Netflix specific code from Priam so that we can release it as an open source project later this year. at 2:41 PM.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Lots of engineers are busy checking in and deploying their work. Someone has managed to convince themselves that they have to do their big architecture change in one fell swoop. Sure, we kept that one engineer busy while they toiled away on their own, but did that optmize the whole teams efforts?

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

They’re easy to use, you don’t need to be technical to get small tests running, and their new Stats Engine makes it harder for noobs to mess up tests. Stats Engine – Optimizely led the way when they launched stats engine earlier this year. Cons: Stats Engine – Their stats engine is both a pro and a con for us.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The best composition is probably one engineer whose passion lies in the pixels on the screen and another engineer whose passion is making bits fly really fast through servers. is it really that the only people who can build great startups are engineers? Engineers don’t always have the best business ideas.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 20, 2022

The Biden administration has set a deadline of December 31st, 2024 for government agencies to fully adopt the zero-trust architecture. There are several ways to obtain CTI, including threat intelligence platforms, open-source intelligence (OSINT), and commercial threat intelligence services. Employee Training.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 16, 2009

The plug-in co-processor architecture was too complex and couldn’t be made to work reliably. Now we were faced with the fact that even though we were gaining market share daily, there was nothing coming out of Engineering. Instead of eight boards, Engineering was going to be able to deliver one new graphics board.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

These programs run on the same type of classic computer architectures they were programmed in. The CPUs (Central Processing Units) that write and run these Classic Computer applications all have the same basic design (architecture). Power Recommendation Engines. The sum of these feels like buzzword bingo. AI/ML in Collection.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

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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Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

This architecture is intuitively more exciting to me, but questions remain about scalability. The end user interfaces and user counts are much earlier here, but I’m seeing more promising projects like Planetary (founded by an early Twitter engineer) emerge. Ambitious open source operating systems/app store alternatives (e.g.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

So everything, Hadoop and scale-out architectures and cloud services, and the whole thing it’s all — and use of new technologies like Box and GitHub, the consumer Internet companies all are just built this way. They are the place where all the open source code increasingly lives.

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kenegozi.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Specifically, MySpace were driven by bad business decisions (like using a 3rd party package for its core functionality - the social engine), and bad management and leadership (it is owned by an old-media corporation, which is a firm believer in pre-web2.0 Not even with bad system architectures. architecture(28). altnetuk(6).

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Nothing essential that I disagree with you in your post, but when read by other people with minimal software engineering experience, they can have too high expectations. Would love to hear your insights sometime into how to partner with engineers. Find a senior engineer, take them out to lunch, pick their brain. Take good notes!

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