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Lessons Learned: Great open source scalability tools from Danga

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, September 5, 2008 Great open source scalability tools from Danga If you are trying to build a scalable LAMP service, its always best to start with the original and still quite relevant presentation, from Brad Fitzpatrick when he was at LiveJournal. You can find the 2005 version here.

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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

When we started IMVU in 2004, we could rely on a staggering amount of open source software that jumpstarted our initial product offering. The next time you needed to handle that page, you could take advantage of caching for excellent performance.

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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). pgbouncer (Lightweight connection pooler for PostgreSQL, from the developers of Skype). Lighthouse.