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

techblog.netflix.com

distribution plus Netflix specific tooling and instrumentation. If an instance dies for any reason, the ASG automatically creates a replacement instance and the Netflix tooling manages bootstrap replacement of that node in the Cassandra cluster. All instances are created using the EC2 auto-scaler feature.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

Im a UX and front end designer bootstrapping my own products with pure sweat equity at night but always looking for someone else to partner with(engineer/programmer)to bring these ideas life. Dont go C or Java, python is good for prototyping and easier to learn. You *can indeed* build products with distributed teams. Insightful.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Design/Front End: Twitter Bootstrap : Include this in your website, and you are half finished. t have time to learn iOS or Java during the weekend. Aptana Cloud (svn, IDE, php, java, rails etc…). free, distributed source code control management system. Get Satisfaction. Event platforms. Eventbrite. Women Focus.