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Techies? Write Your Own Ticket In Southern California

blog.socaltech.com

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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A framework for categorizing and comparing cloud platforms

bijoor.me

Thanks to Alex Popsecu’s NoSql blog , found a well articulated thesis by Johan den Haan , CTO at Mendix. 1: Software Defined Datacenter Users : Infrastructure Engineers. into Application Containers Examples : Google App Engine , Heroku Buildpacks , CloudFoundry Buildpacks. 4: Model-Driven PaaS Users : Business Engineers.

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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). Since that time we've seen a massive change from product engineering to financial engineering.

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Stories of Opportunity from the First Round Capital Key Hire Wire – COO, VP of Business Development, Online Marketing Director

This is going to be BIG.

Correction: Last week's CTO position at Modcloth is actually a San Francisco opportunity, not Pittsburgh. Our team includes 12 top-notch engineers from NVidia, Microsoft, Stanford, Berkeley and Cornell. We have a deep technology stack. Our team dabbles in everything from S3 and EC2 cloud services to SIMD and assembly code.

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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

At the CTO Group that I organize in Santa Monica, we've had lots of discussions around this. Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. Controls - reverse engineered Quicken file format - sold to Microsoft for import into Microsoft Money. Would never put a user request to an EC2 instance.

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The cloud landscape described, categorized, and compared

www.theenterprisearchitect.eu

Google App Engine? Layer 4: empowering the business engineer. The best-known examples in the market today probably are the  Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)  and  OpenStack Nova. There is middleware that focuses on facilitating compute, like application servers, process and rule engines, etc.

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FinTech Innovation Lab Launch Event – June 2, 2011

David Teten

My rough notes follow: Mike Dubno , CIO, Global Markets and Research Technology & Operations, Bank of America. Previously CTO, Goldman Sachs. Panel: Cary Davis , Managing Director, Warburg Pincus, Moderator: Ben Fried, Chief Information Officer, Google, runs in-house technology. Introductory remarks.