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Framework Benchmarks Round 7

TechEmpower

One particularly interesting anomaly is the dominance of Windows paired with Mongo on EC2 in the Updates test. The performance is only slightly lower than the same pairing on i7, where in most cases our i7s (2600K workstations, to be precise) and EC2 (m1.large) large) instances differ by a factor of seven or more.

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Framework Benchmarks

TechEmpower

This is an EC2 test run on a pair of Large instances. Weak performance can also cause premature scale pain, user experience degradation, and associated penalties levied by search engines. We ran each test on EC2 and our i7 hardware. First up is plain JSON serialization on Amazon EC2 large instances. Since Vert.x

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Frameworks Round 1

TechEmpower

This is an EC2 test run on a pair of Large instances. Weak performance can also cause premature scale pain, user experience degradation, and associated penalties levied by search engines. We ran each test on EC2 and our i7 hardware. First up is plain JSON serialization on Amazon EC2 large instances. Since Vert.x

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How Not To Run Your Own Technology Startup

YoungUpstarts

Pivotal Tracker – Engineering planning, tracking, task assignments (+mobile). Amazon EC2 – Computing, server management, hosting. Recurly – Recurring billing from within our application. Workflow & Project Management. Trello – Planning for business development, design, some strategy work. Backend Support.

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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. This team is currently looking for an additional engineer.

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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.) For bonus points, make sure the back end uses Amazon EC2 and S3. Why do I say that? technologies (interactivity UI etc.).

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5 Infrastructure Tips for Startups

blog.adaptiveblue.com

EC2 - The Elastic Compute Cloud Service EC2 is essentially a grid in the box. You then can ask EC2 to start instances with your configuration on the fly. EC2 is a powerful service, but it is still evolving. December 27, 2007 at 9:31 pm 36 Startup Tips: From Software Engineering to PR and More! : Startups!!!

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