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How to Choose a Programming Language as a Tech Startup

The Startup Magazine

Java and.NET, for example, are more enterprise-focused, giving them a more professional and formal tone. If you have a solid proof of concept and aren’t being pressured by investors , then you have more freedom to focus on building a scalable architecture. Open Source Code. This largely depends on your goals in business.

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Techies? Write Your Own Ticket In Southern California

blog.socaltech.com

and even bigger, architecture-level talent (particularly software architects who know how to scale a web based service or software). It’s also to the point where the best folks (particularly on the architecture area) seem to all be going independent, working as CTO’s for hire or in similar positions.

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Choosing Technologies for Your Web Startup (Part 2)

crowdSPRING Blog

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? Java, PHP, Python, Ruby?

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Reincubate: Blog: Chief Technology Officer job description (for web, start-up or corporate)

www.reincubate.com

Hold responsibility for IT governance of platform & services, including telecommunications, networks, infrastructure, engineering, media, and architecture. Choose platform and architecture for prototypes and V1 projects, and provide cost-effective 80/20 solutions. Past contribution to one or more Open Source projects.

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

For example, at a previous virtual world company , we spent years developing an architecture to cope with millions of simultaneous users. Leverage product development with open source and third parties. For example, early on at IMVU, we incorporated in tons of open source projects. It was still a good trade.

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Which language should my startup use?

www.reincubate.com

Share this: net c# development django java language php software Were often asked by entrepreneurs which language their startups should adopt when developing their technology. In particular, they may use service oriented architecture, or SoA. Java stands alone from the four others.

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

techblog.netflix.com

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. Why we use and contribute to open source software. at 2:41 PM.

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