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Is Your WordPress Website Optimised?

YoungUpstarts

WordPress is one of the world’s greatest, if not the greatest, open-source platforms available. The second area to help improve your WordPress website speed is to enable caching. Being the world’s most popular open source platform, WordPress also comes with its security risks. Optimise for Security!

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

Both Sides of the Table

To interconnect these computers we needed IP-based telecommunications equipment build by the likes of Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks. Open source computing, which reduced costs to start a company by 90%. Changes in the Startup Ecosystem. Web Services, led by Amazon’s AWS, which reduced the costs a further 90%.

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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. 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

blog.expensify.com

You need to hear this from someone who has used.Net extensively, and then happily walked away from it to go open source: You are a wanker. And before you say.net is only for windows, checkout https://github.com/mono , it’s not an open source application. It’s an *freaking open source*.net

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. High Quality, and open sourced! Mantis (Open source). Nagios (open source). Varnish Cache (reverse proxy). Panda (Open source). IP Location Tools.

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Digital Elite Camp 2019 Recap: Takeaways from Every Speaker

ConversionXL

Common pollution sources include: internal traffic, bots, spam, monitoring, scraping, tag issues. Debugging tip: look at session distribution report, filter to users with lots of sessions and high repeat sessions, get clues from network, hostname, bounce, browser, geo-IP, resolution. Data enrichment You have to earn data quality.

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