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Scaling lessons learned at Dropbox, part 1

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GeoIP for mapping IPs to locations. We eventually ended up converting everything to SQLAlchemy’s lowest-level language for constructing SQL (one step away from raw SQL). S3/EC2 for storing and serving file blocks. memcached in front of the database and for handling inter-server coordination. nginx for the frontend server.

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

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If someone comes to you with Ruby on Rails experience, do you assume they are ignorant of SQL? I learned C# and.NET (along with HTML/CSS/JS/SQL/etc) because that’s what they used. there are start ups who are legitimately using.net because they don’t need to look directly into the tcp/ip stack. Matt Sherman.

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Startup Resources

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Varnish Cache (reverse proxy). IP Location Tools. SQL database hosting from browser.Python/Javascript APIs. Lodestone Innovation Partners (IP) Ltd are spin-out specialists. “My IP” – produced by the UK Intellectual Property Office. JS/CSS Compression Using YUI Compressor. mod_perlite (Perl).

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Digital Elite Camp 2019 Recap: Takeaways from Every Speaker

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If you collect proper data in Google Analytics, you can tools like Tableau, MS SQL server, and R to do deeper analysis. 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. Lazy load images.

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