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Choosing Technologies for Your Web Startup (Part 2)

crowdSPRING Blog

It inevitably involves data and content caching, one of the most difficult aspects, engineering-wise, of web development. They’d much rather create a complex caching solution than simply doubling the hardware to handle the extra load. One major caveat is Google App Engine , which is not compatible with all technologies.

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A framework for categorizing and comparing cloud platforms

bijoor.me

1: Software Defined Datacenter Users : Infrastructure Engineers. Software Defined Storage (SDS) : decouples storage volumes from the underlying physical hardware with features like caching, snapshotting, high availability, etc. into Application Containers Examples : Google App Engine , Heroku Buildpacks , CloudFoundry Buildpacks.

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Framework Benchmarks

TechEmpower

Netty , Vert.x , and Java servlets are fast, but we were surprised how much faster they are than Ruby , Django , and friends. Weak performance can also cause premature scale pain, user experience degradation, and associated penalties levied by search engines. Java / JVM. Since Vert.x Database access (single query). Web servers.

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The cloud landscape described, categorized, and compared

www.theenterprisearchitect.eu

Google App Engine? Layer 4: empowering the business engineer. But basically any big IT player has an offering, like  Microsoft Windows Azure ,  Google Compute Engine , and  IBM SmartCloud , to name a few. This means that more advanced features like caching, snapshotting, high availability, etc.

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Frameworks Round 1

TechEmpower

Netty , Vert.x , and Java servlets are fast, but we were surprised how much faster they are than Ruby , Django , and friends. Weak performance can also cause premature scale pain, user experience degradation, and associated penalties levied by search engines. Java / JVM. Since Vert.x Database access (single query). Web servers.

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Python vs Node.js – Performance Analysis

The Startup Magazine

is exceptional because the JavaScript code has been put together by the V8 engine, which Google has heavily invested in. On a final note regarding Node.js, it supports caching individual modules, which will significantly speed up app loading and enhance responsiveness. We will start off by taking a look at Node.js

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How Google makes GMail mobile fast

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

The speaker, Steve Souders , is a Head Performance Engineer at Google and previously worked at Yahoo! It seemed that java script is a thorn in Souders’ side when it comes to performance. He recommends that java script be put at the bottom of the HTML page. Browsers caching are too small and purging algorithms are poor.

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