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

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The VAST majority of what you’re dealing with (HTTP, MIME, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, relational databases, page template, authentication, session management, caching, etc.) But if I want to hire people that know about byte alignment and cache thrashing I look in the one place where.Net does not feature. Like what?!

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Startup Resources

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Varnish Cache (reverse proxy). Due Diligence. JS/CSS Compression Using YUI Compressor. mod_perlite (Perl). PHP-FPM (a patch for php4/5 to greatly improve FastCGI SAPI usage). pgbouncer (Lightweight connection pooler for PostgreSQL, from the developers of Skype). YSlow (performance checklist). YUICompressor. Google Docs.