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Scaling lessons learned at Dropbox, part 1

eranki.tumblr.com

In between the last failover and now, there have been a bazillion code pushes, database schema changes, internal DNS renames, etc. Server times, stuff in the database, etc. memcached in front of the database and for handling inter-server coordination. memcached in front of the database and for handling inter-server coordination.

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Problems (For the Most Part) Resolved with wordpress and dreamhost

Software By Rob

After about 8 hours of troubleshooting I was downloading all of the files and database to move to another host, when the DreamHost support rep suggested I try to run this site under a different shell username. After taking care of that I noticed that the wp-cache is locking the site up once every couple days.

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

Both Sides of the Table

To interconnect these computers we needed IP-based telecommunications equipment build by the likes of Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks. It really only needs a few community leaders to kick things off and land a community on a map.

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

techblog.netflix.com

Writes stress a data store all the way to the disks, while read benchmarks may only exercise the in-memory cache. We use these for read intensive workloads to cache more data in memory. 0 Key cache size / save period in seconds: 200000.0/14400 database. (1). Both these instance types have a one Gbit/s network. DataStax.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

The VAST majority of what you’re dealing with (HTTP, MIME, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, relational databases, page template, authentication, session management, caching, etc.) there are start ups who are legitimately using.net because they don’t need to look directly into the tcp/ip stack. Purchase IP from the vendors.

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Startup Resources

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From premium paid subscription databases to free tools showcasing new startups and startup maps, The Ultimate Startup Intelligence Tools List is guaranteed to help you get your research done. Plus, their javascript Library is real time so you get notifications on any database update. Need a database/back end solution?