Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

But if you want to practice rapid deployment, you need to be able to deploy that build in one step as well. If you want to do continuous deployment, youd better be able to certify that build too, which brings us to. For more on continuous deployment, see Just-in-time Scalability. Do you have a bug database?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Massive proprietary databases? Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. I dont think so. Can the company dig into its tools when they fail and fix them?

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The Next Web

AUGUST 6, 2013

Zappos could have gone off and built distribution centers, a large database of footwear, and inventory systems for shipping shoes. They didn’t validate their business model before investing so much in it and under-estimated the “last mile” problem. Contrast this to Zappos. Can it work for an enterprise software company?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

For tips on how to integrate it into your database and application layers, you can see the tail-end of my JIT Scalability talk. MogileFS - "Distributed (meta) file system. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Three of my favorite: memcached - an in-memory object caching system. Pay less for storage.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

Data storage is becoming a specialized function, delegated most often to relational databases. If you are storing all of your data in a relational database, and the load on that database exceeds its capacity, there is no automatic solution that allows you to simply add more hardware and scale up.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

PHP has always scored well on this count, with lots of support for database drivers, URL parsing, HTTP fetching, regular expressions - you name it. For most of its existence, PHP didnt have a standard package-distribution system or very good module support. Honestly, the PEAR database is nothing compared to CPAN.

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