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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. MogileFS - "Distributed (meta) file system.

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How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone

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Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, September 18, 2008 How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone I have had the opportunity to meet a lot of iPhone-related companies lately. There are other models, in other distribution channels. On Facebook, viral distribution has proved decisive. I havent found any yet.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. One that is powered by three drivers, each of which is a part of a major trend: The use of platforms enabled by open source and free software. What are the characteristics of a lean startup?

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8 Must Have Tools For Your Next App Build

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There are plenty of open source software and commercial software solutions that DevOps teams are using to accelerate app development. Open source solutions will be free or inexpensive but may take more time on the front end to configure and customize. Time, as they say, is money. Kubernetes.

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Lessons Learned: Just-In-Time Scalability

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Labels: agile , continuous deployment 1 comments: timothyfitz said. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. and more ► January (6) Lo, my 18891 subscribers, who are you?

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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

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Labels: agile , continuous deployment , customer development , events , listening to customers , slides 3comments: Sean Murphy said. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica.

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Lessons Learned: Product development leverage

Startup Lessons Learned

We combined three tactics: extensive use of free software, an open platform for user-generated content, and leveraged distribution channels. The net result was powerful: within six months of starting the company, we were able to get a basic version of our product into open beta. Leveraged distribution channels.