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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

In recent years, weve also got great new options all up and down the stack, in particular things like Amazon EC2 and RightScale (none of which would be possible without the free software movement). At the application-stack layer, I see LAMP + Danga as the most common combination. Otherwise it's a great idea.

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Scaling lessons learned at Dropbox, part 1

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Most out-of-the-box monitoring solutions aren’t meant to handle this sort of load, and we wanted a one-line way of adding stats so that we didn’t have to think about whether it costed anything, or fuss around with configuration files just to add a stat (decreasing the friction of testing and monitoring is a big priority).

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How To Bootstrap Your Startup

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Request for Quotation - Write and run an RFQ process to determine approach, costs, timescales and conditions under which each vendor would deliver, select a preferred vendor and a spare in case of any problems during contract negotiations. How much will this cost? But producing a professional and slick product costs money.

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Benchmarking Cassandra Scalability on AWS - Over a million writes per second

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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. There was no setup time, no discussions with IT operations about datacenter space and no more cost once the test was over. million client writes per second.

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

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Shame on you for spinning your desire for junior developers as being solely related to cost. there are start ups who are legitimately using.net because they don’t need to look directly into the tcp/ip stack. Purchase IP from the vendors. of course, you’re allowed to have your opinions. it takes no intelligence.

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Startup Resources

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IP Location Tools. Amazon EC2. tells you how much adwords cost. hire low-cost international engineering talent. Lodestone Innovation Partners (IP) Ltd are spin-out specialists. Xtranormal. Presentation tools. Login System. Social functionality. Crowdfactory. Google Geocoding API. OpenStreetMap. Campaign Monitor.