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Programmer Competency Matrix

www.starling-software.com

Understands the entire programming stack, hardware (CPU + Memory + Cache + Interrupts + microcode), binary code, assembly, static and dynamic linking, compilation, interpretation, JIT compilation, garbage collection, heap, stack, memory addressing. Knowledge of distributed VCS systems. Software Engineering.

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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. distribution plus Netflix specific tooling and instrumentation. 0 Key cache size / save period in seconds: 200000.0/14400

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Fifteen Years Later

K9 Ventures

The entire storage model of the Network Computer can be summarized in one word: cache! All the storage on your local NC is a cache. The entire local hard disk is nothing but a huge cache. The information is distributed… on the network. If it does, it verifies that it’s copy in the cache is up to date.

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Fifteen Years Later

K9 Ventures

The entire storage model of the Network Computer can be summarized in one word: cache! All the storage on your local NC is a cache. The entire local hard disk is nothing but a huge cache. The information is distributed… on the network. If it does, it verifies that it’s copy in the cache is up to date.

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Special: 72 Israeli Companies Exhibit at the 2010 Mobile World Congress

VC Cafe

Unlike traditional FLASH we can put 4 bits of information in a single cell, and we produce memory product in sizes optimized for content distribution, creating the LOWERS cost content mobile Content distribution medium available today. Our unique technology is called OTP (One Time programmable) FLASH.

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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

The next time you needed to handle that page, you could take advantage of caching for excellent performance. For most of its existence, PHP didnt have a standard package-distribution system or very good module support. I didnt mean by this that Java programmers are dumb. I meant that Python programmers are smart.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

t have time to learn iOS or Java during the weekend. Varnish Cache (reverse proxy). Aptana Cloud (svn, IDE, php, java, rails etc…). free, distributed source code control management system. Sendgrid : Need to send email out to users? Use Sendgrid! They make sure that your emails never to go spam folders. Google Docs.