blog.socaltech.com

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

My conclusion: if you’re a software engineer, with good technical background and ability, you can pretty much write your own ticket in Southern California. cloud computing (Amazon AWS and EC2, etc.) Build a software-as-a-service web site, even just a dead simple one, using the latest technology. Why do I say that?

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 22, 2012

As most of you will know, the enablers are cloud computing and open source software. Pinterest now supports 18m users with growth running at 50% per month with the following: Amazon costs are around $39k for S3 and $30k for EC2 (I assume per month). They have 275 EC2 instances. 70 master databases.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Five years ago, a small business launching a new online product would traditionally have purchased their own servers and software, or leased servers, software and hosting services from one of many hosting providers around the world. The cloud has changed the way individuals and organizations of all sizes leverage technology.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. I am heavily indebted to earlier theorists, and highly recommend the books Lean Thinking and Lean Software Development. Of course, many startups are capital efficient and generally frugal. No more, no less.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Your results, thanks to our high performance compute cloud should be available within an hour. DNAnexus ( www.dnanexus.com ) is pioneering the combination of cloud computing and whole-genome DNA sequence analysis. Our team dabbles in everything from S3 and EC2 cloud services to SIMD and assembly code.

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San Francisco CTO Hire Developer EC2 92

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Useful comparison of Amazon vs. Rackspace clouds & why Mixpanel is moving to EC2 – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. Lessons Learned From Helping Over 150 Startups With Marketing Part 1 – [link].

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Social Media Costa Rica Small Business Design 92

BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Cloud this, Cloud that – the word cloud is clearly an overhyped word and reminds me of the beginning of the hype around hosted models and ASPs (application service providers) in the late 90s and the term SAAS today.  Rightscale is an on-ramp to Amazon EC2 and other clouds and provides automate systems management. 

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 14, 2008

Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. They also are VERY interesting for background processing tasks that take compute resources or from a storage cloud standpoint. Amazon EC2 - uses it for natural language processing. Would never put a user request to an EC2 instance.

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Internet EC2 Java API 150

BeyondVC

OCTOBER 27, 2009

Phase 2 - Rise of open source - I would call Phase 2 the rise of open source software over the last 10 years - most of which is hardcore infrastructure type software such as databases, virtualization software, and the like. Yes there are public clouds like Amazon EC2 which is now also offering virtualized private clouds.

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Andrew Payne

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

I’ve become generally negative on most pure software projects. Cloud-based hosting (e.g. EC2, S3) removes most up-front capital requirements. It’s just tough for entrepreneurs: there will be some nice software exits, but returns are becoming so skewed, it’s more like a lottery than anything based on skill.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

But it is fraught with risks - and the primary risk you need to guard against is software development failure. Vendor long-list - build a “long-list&# of possible software vendors and NDA them all, but don‚Äôt rely on it (more on this later). Award contract - Negotiate a software development contract.

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Bootstrapping Offshore Startup EC2 41

techblog.netflix.com

NOVEMBER 26, 2011

We picked a write oriented benchmark using the standard Cassandra "stress" tool that is part of the product, and Denis ran and analyzed the tests on Amazon EC2 instances. The benchmark results should be reproducible by anyone, but the Netflix cloud platform automation for AWS makes it quick and easy to do this kind of test.

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EC2 Caching Software Review Java 68

Feld Thoughts

MARCH 24, 2010

Machines and clouds fail, even on EC2. You’ll always have my cell phone number — if our software breaks, you can call me 24/7 and I’ll get my team on it. If Amazon is up, we’ll get the data. The best way to guard against machine failure is duplicate hardware. We offer highly discounted backup boxes.

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EC2 Software Review Technical Review Cloud 137

blog.adaptiveblue.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

EC2 - The Elastic Compute Cloud Service EC2 is essentially a grid in the box. It is a service that directly competes with your hosting provider, since it allows you to create and dynamically provision identical instances of your software. You then can ask EC2 to start instances with your configuration on the fly.

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EC2 Widget Software Review Startup 40

TechEmpower

MARCH 4, 2014

As we and our collaborators prepare Round 9 of our Framework Benchmarks project, we had an epiphany: With high-performance software, a single modern server processes over 1 million HTTP requests per second. Yes, on-demand capacity and all the usual upsides of cloud deployments are real. Spoiler: I feel bad for our workstations.

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SEC EC2 Architecture Java 514

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

I believe that this is a major new area of growth & innovation for the Internet as Cloud Services start to form deeper & richer layers. Over the past 5 years the Internet Cloud has started to form into layers and this is a great thing for innovation. At the time we viewed Amazon’s offering, EC2 as too nascent.

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Cloud Technical Review Database Semantic 343

VC Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2011

Israeli startup Blaze Meter , a load testing in the cloud compatible with open source Apache Jmeter, has recently raised an undisclosed round from Yoav Leitersdorf’s YL Ventures. Alon: BlazeMeter is the first testing cloud with a sole focus on load testing, designed to simplify performance and load testing for developers and QA testers.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

This literally the dumbest, most ignorant piece that I’ve ever read about software development and/or hiring programmers. Your vision is so limited that it’s scary to see that you are actually the CEO of a successful cloud platform. In every population there are some that are both brilliant and malicious. Sjoerd Franken.

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Java PHP Software Review Coder 107

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Poplytics – online surveys and analytics AskYourTargetMarket – market research surveys SurveyMonkey - granddaddy of on-line surveys Amazon Mechanical Turk – you can set up a question and get answers PickFu – A/B testing $5 for 50 opinions Collaboration Dropbox – store, sync, and, share files online.

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Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics 110

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Aptana Cloud (svn, IDE, php, java, rails etc…). Cloud Infrastructure. Amazon EC2. see the Libcloud -compatible cloud providers. free/cheap web customer relationship mgmt software. marketing automation software. email blast and mgmt software. email blast and mgmt software. CVSDude (svn).

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