Scalable Startup

AUGUST 26, 2014

The term Content Management System has become mainstream in everything from the Fortune 500 to small businesses. Currently they face enormous pressure to innovate faster, and are responding with Drupal 8, which will incorporate many new modern web architectures previously not part of the Drupal platform.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

Meanwhile, we were building our app in PHP, using a generic DB driver and mysql, "for the time being." 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. yeah, its awesome.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

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. PHP is insecure? In particular, they may use service oriented architecture, or SoA. PHP is a widely-used Open Source web scripting language.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

Balancing competing objectives is a recurring theme on this blog - its the central challenge of all management decisions. The best candidates have managed to teach me something about a topic I thought I already knew a lot about. This responsibility falls squarely to the hiring manager. Communication.

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adam.heroku.com

MAY 18, 2012

Founders and early employees tend to be very self-directed so the need for management is nearly non-existent. For example: full-fledged SCRUM, heavyweight tools like Jira, or hiring a project manager or engineering manager. A close mapping between your software architecture and your team architecture will be a big help here.

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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

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Most of this code was from a variety of open source PHP projects that were glued together with the shortest path to goal possible. The five whys methodology has been around for some time, not just as a continuous improvement technique, but as a general problem solving method in all areas of management.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Full discloure, I am a former PHP, Perl, ColdFusion, ActionScript, VB.NET, ASP.NET and C# developer. You can develop web.apps in assembly language if you insist, but it’ll take 10 times more time and money than doing it with.net, php, ror or other modern languages and you’ll have 10 times more bugs to deal with.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

When Zuckerberg started Thefacebook.com he was a PHP coder (translation: not a real developer). Sooner or later, using PHP or RoR or.Net or some Java framework, that 0.5x The code behind airline reservations, visa transactions, and warehouse management systems, really did change the world beyond all recognition. Obviously not.

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kenegozi.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Here in delver we had many success stories with great people coming in with having almost no experience in.NET or Java (which are the major technologies we use here), but php/python/c++/whatever instead. Not even with bad system architectures. It is architectures and processes that do not scale. architecture(28).

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 30, 2009

Even though some aspects of the product were eventually vindicated as good ones, the underlying architecture suffered from hard-to-change assumptions. Even a great architecture becomes inflexible. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 28, 2009

The engineering team has decided its reached a breaking point, and is taking several weeks to bring it up to modern standards, including unit tests, getting started with continuous integration , and a new MVC architecture. On the other, they already have a team fully engaged on making their product architecture better.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Scoping the prpject down to something manageable is really hard. I am starting a big web project, and have been thinking about how to break it down into manageable chunks. This may well be the first project you have managed but most programmers have worked on dozens and they have invaluable experience designing features and interfaces.

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