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Technical Signs Of A Well-Managed Business

YoungUpstarts

One IP for All. You can run your databases on top of Oracle’s cloud service while keeping the computing parts of your application in AWS EC2. You can run your databases on top of Oracle’s cloud service while keeping the computing parts of your application in AWS EC2.

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Scaling lessons learned at Dropbox, part 1

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In between the last failover and now, there have been a bazillion code pushes, database schema changes, internal DNS renames, etc. Server times, stuff in the database, etc. S3/EC2 for storing and serving file blocks. memcached in front of the database and for handling inter-server coordination. Pretty standard.

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

blog.expensify.com

The VAST majority of what you’re dealing with (HTTP, MIME, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, relational databases, page template, authentication, session management, caching, etc.) 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.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

From premium paid subscription databases to free tools showcasing new startups and startup maps, The Ultimate Startup Intelligence Tools List is guaranteed to help you get your research done. Plus, their javascript Library is real time so you get notifications on any database update. Need a database/back end solution?