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Lessons Learned: Continuous deployment and continuous learning

Startup Lessons Learned

The longer you wait to find out about the problem, the more likely it is to have fallen out of the human-memory cache. This development philosophy created a culture around rapid prototyping of features, followed by testing them against large numbers of actual customers. If a feature worked, wed keep it. If it didnt, wed trash it.

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Lessons Learned: Great open source scalability tools from Danga

Startup Lessons Learned

Three of my favorite: memcached - an in-memory object caching system. Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? Waves of technology platforms The lean startup Customer Development Engineering Greasemonkey compiler Great open source scalability tools from Danga Ideas.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

This is true of most web application servers, caches like memcached, and all of the network infrastructure that connects them. For example, you might notice that caching gets a lot easier if you have good metadat about which queries are associated with the same entity. This is a good summary and very useful data layer scaling approach.

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Native App vs. Web App: Which Is Better for Mobile Commerce?

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May 23, 2011 by Christina Warren 20 Share on Tumblr email share Share on Tumblr email share The Mobile App Trends Series is supported by Sourcebits , a leading product developer for mobile platforms. Sourcebits offers design and development services for iOS, Android, Mobile and Web platforms.

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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. At IMVU, when wed hire a new engineer, we could get them to ship code to production on their first day, even if they had never programmed in PHP before. In most cases, simple changes are simple to make. Enough about that.

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Startup Resources

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Firebase : Are all your developers front-end engineers? Google Custom Search Engine. pgbouncer (Lightweight connection pooler for PostgreSQL, from the developers of Skype). Varnish Cache (reverse proxy). Google App Engine. Search Engine Optimization Tools. Google App Engine â?? Check them out.