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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. Unlike product, which is harder to reason about, backend engineering is fairly objective (optimize page load time, uptime, etc.) have serious security problems and seem to be able to weather a small PR storm. Run with extra load.

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5 Infrastructure Tips for Startups

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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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How To Bootstrap Your Startup

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Our team is 5 engineers, 2 QA and a project manager. Jackie: I would recommend instead Amazons EC2 and S3 platforms. That said, I dont think EC2 is reliable enough to depend upon, and the entire reputation of a startup can hinge on that. I do think there is a built-in level of inefficiency with offshore development.

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What The Rails Security Issue Means For Your Startup

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Maybe it is a publicly accessible staging server at EC2 spun up by a developer who has since left the company and not shut down because, hey, $20 a month. Maybe it is a 20% project by a junior engineer which he has on the back burner for the moment. Maybe it is the customer support portal at admin.example.com. dawmail333.

Security 101
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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

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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.

Java 107
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Startup Tools

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I sold to you & PR function back in the day (SuperMac) and others to the many companies dating back, but finally E.piphany ~ MediaMap (now is Cision). Thanks for a Great Post. Reply Mary B. , on June 5, 2011 at 1:15 am said: Stumbled on your page by serendipity. Amazing list. The best part though is the tenacity link.