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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. encouraging an open platform where 3rd parties can make lots of money]. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). There will be other layers including place information and open-source data. cheap accessible digital hardware].

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

techblog.netflix.com

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 time taken by EC2 to create 288 new instances was about 15 minutes out of our total of 66 minutes. All instances are created using the EC2 auto-scaler feature.

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What The Rails Security Issue Means For Your Startup

www.kalzumeus.com

For example, Redmine — an open source developer productivity tool — is commonly installed at individual companies. Maybe it is a publicly accessible staging server at EC2 spun up by a developer who has since left the company and not shut down because, hey, $20 a month. I keep a list of my best work curated.

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