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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

For example, Friendster was famously vertically partitioned at one time in its growth curve. Sharding for startups To support a single partitioning scheme is easy, especially if you design for it from the start. Ive taught everyone from hard-core programmers to scripters to HTML-designers to use it properly. to store it.

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The curse of prevention

Startup Lessons Learned

In the past, we invested in brilliant architecture, code reuse, refactoring, modular design, etc. By contrast, most investments in traditional prevention are designed to anticipate and fix a specific problem. In the past, we invested in brilliant architecture, code reuse, refactoring, modular design, etc.

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

I have a question though- do you think that most content metrics (the ebook example you mentioned) should be developed by the "author" to target their specific data, or do you think there are opportunities for a new business vertical that give these tools directly to the creator. August 24, 2009 2:17 PM Norbert Mocsnik said.

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Unintended Lessons

Steve Blank

Unintended Lessons « Steve Blank steveblank.com/2009/09/28/unintended-lessons – view page – cached + Customer Development Manifesto: The Path of Warriors and Winners (part 5) + Can You Trust Any VC’s Under 40? Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Blog at WordPress.com.