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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

In recent years, weve also got great new options all up and down the stack, in particular things like Amazon EC2 and RightScale (none of which would be possible without the free software movement). Since that time we've seen a massive change from product engineering to financial engineering. Otherwise it's a great idea.

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Scaling lessons learned at Dropbox, part 1

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any real-world engineering project ;-). S3/EC2 for storing and serving file blocks. S3/EC2 for storing and serving file blocks. GeoIP for mapping IPs to locations. Unlike product, which is harder to reason about, backend engineering is fairly objective (optimize page load time, uptime, etc.) Run with extra load.

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How To Bootstrap Your Startup

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Our team is 5 engineers, 2 QA and a project manager. We are on the high end of the range, and I think expecting less would be unrealistic unless you are building something really simple (and therefore with limited inherent IP). Jackie: I would recommend instead Amazons EC2 and S3 platforms.

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

blog.expensify.com

I am the VP of Engineering at a cutting-edge startup that sells software built on the.NET platform. You whine about how hard it is to find good engineers, then go on and on about how you intentionally avoid at least half of the market for skilled people? It’s also missing the point of engineering anything. Elaine Kenny.

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Startup Resources

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Firebase : Are all your developers front-end engineers? Google Custom Search Engine. IP Location Tools. Amazon EC2. Google App Engine. Search Engine Optimization Tools. Google App Engine â?? We have an iOS SDK as well, for web-web, mobile-mobile, web-mobile video chat and video messaging. But thatâ??s