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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.) Or, what do you do if you’re just coming out of school and all you’ve done is Java coursework? Why do I say that?

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Framework Benchmarks

TechEmpower

This is an EC2 test run on a pair of Large instances. Netty , Vert.x , and Java servlets are fast, but we were surprised how much faster they are than Ruby , Django , and friends. Weak performance can also cause premature scale pain, user experience degradation, and associated penalties levied by search engines. Since Vert.x

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Frameworks Round 1

TechEmpower

This is an EC2 test run on a pair of Large instances. Netty , Vert.x , and Java servlets are fast, but we were surprised how much faster they are than Ruby , Django , and friends. Weak performance can also cause premature scale pain, user experience degradation, and associated penalties levied by search engines. Since Vert.x

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A framework for categorizing and comparing cloud platforms

bijoor.me

1: Software Defined Datacenter Users : Infrastructure Engineers. Application PaaS (aPaas) : language runtimes such as JVM and others that allows deployment of code written in different languages such as Java, Python, Go, Node.js, Grails, Scala, PHP etc. 4: Model-Driven PaaS Users : Business Engineers.

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The cloud landscape described, categorized, and compared

www.theenterprisearchitect.eu

Google App Engine? Layer 4: empowering the business engineer. The best-known examples in the market today probably are the  Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)  and  OpenStack Nova. There is middleware that focuses on facilitating compute, like application servers, process and rule engines, etc.

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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. Controls - reverse engineered Quicken file format - sold to Microsoft for import into Microsoft Money. PIM based on Java that would be up-to-date on all your devices. Server and client in Java. All about end-user requests.

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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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