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Paywalls, SEO, and the Need for a Damn Good Brand

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was selected due to its ranking for evergreen queries, such as “things to do in Canada.” If you try to replicate that with a crawler, such as Screaming Frog, you’ll get a 403 Forbidden response code because Screaming Frog only spoofs Googlebot. The travel section on Independent.ie We saw no significant decrease in average ranking.

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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. This could be due to a random fluctuation in the test, which we only ran once, variations in the detailed specification of the m1.xl

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Startup Resources

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VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. s the new way to code, and quite easy to learn. You can write back end code in javascript, one language conquers all! Varnish Cache (reverse proxy). IP Location Tools. Code Igniter. Seed Startups.

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Scaling lessons learned at Dropbox, part 1

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If there is a way to do this, it would also be cool to have markings on the graph that point to events you can annotate such as code push, or AWS outage. It’s almost a way of randomly tracing your code. If you can afford to push code through the infrequent code paths more often it’ll save some headaches.

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Problems (For the Most Part) Resolved with wordpress and dreamhost

Software By Rob

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← WordPress Headaches with Closing HTML Tag – Any Ideas? After taking care of that I noticed that the wp-cache is locking the site up once every couple days.

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

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The right sort of person is so passionate about coding, they can’t be stopped from doing it. But every day spent in that kitchen is a day NOT spent in a real kitchen, learning how to cook real food, and write real code. I currently work in information security, and I help teach developers how to write better, more secure code.

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Progressive Web Apps: What Do Marketers Need to Know?

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The web is littered with re-worded explanations, so rather than spilling more ink, here’s one of the better ones : A Progressive Web Application is a software application, written in the Web platform and running in the browser, that behaves like a cloud-delivered native application. The magic—and limitations—of caching.

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