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

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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 Both these instance types have a one Gbit/s network.

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

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As one of the coherent commentators says below, Joel Spolsky himself laments schools teaching Java with the same basic reasoning of my article above, albeit more diplomatically stated.) .NET My example: I have mainly programmed _by choice_ in Python, Ruby, Scala, Haskell, C# and currently I’m doing Java. Alcides Fonseca.

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

VC Cafe

Allot Communications -a leading provider of intelligent IP service optimization and revenue generation solutions based on Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) technology. Fring - fring is a mobile social communication hub that lets users communicate and share web-based experiences over IP all from one integrated contact list on their mobile devices.

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Startup Resources

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t have time to learn iOS or Java during the weekend. Varnish Cache (reverse proxy). IP Location Tools. Aptana Cloud (svn, IDE, php, java, rails etc…). Lodestone Innovation Partners (IP) Ltd are spin-out specialists. Sendgrid : Need to send email out to users? Use Sendgrid! mod_perlite (Perl). YUICompressor.