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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. memcached in front of the database and for handling inter-server coordination. memcached in front of the database and for handling inter-server coordination.

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

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If someone comes to you with Ruby on Rails experience, do you assume they are ignorant of SQL? I learned C# and.NET (along with HTML/CSS/JS/SQL/etc) because that’s what they used. there are start ups who are legitimately using.net because they don’t need to look directly into the tcp/ip stack. Matt Sherman.

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Startup Resources

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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?