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Lessons Learned: Where did Silicon Valley come from?

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, November 11, 2008 Where did Silicon Valley come from? I think the absolute best reading on this subject is a book called Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128 by AnnaLee Saxenian. And what were they doing beforehand?

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Lessons Learned: The ABCDEF's of conducting a technical interview

Startup Lessons Learned

I remember once being asked in a Microsoft group interview (and dinner) about the ActiveX security model. I remember answering "What security model?" Turns out, I had been lecturing the creator of the ActiveX security model. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. At first, I thought I was doing well.

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Lessons Learned: Five Whys

Startup Lessons Learned

Most of this was code that not scalable, not secure, and not particularly extensible. It seems your cluster architecture is one of the key architectural constraints making continuous deployment possible. If you cant deploy to 5% of the nodes and check the results, then how would you accomplish continuous deployment?