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Technical Signs Of A Well-Managed Business

YoungUpstarts

One IP for All. You can run your databases on top of Oracle’s cloud service while keeping the computing parts of your application in AWS EC2. Still, multi-cloud – and hybrid cloud, another popular concept – doesn’t mean allowing all of your IP addresses to be exposed.

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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). At the application-stack layer, I see LAMP + Danga as the most common combination. Otherwise it's a great idea.

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Scaling lessons learned at Dropbox, part 1

eranki.tumblr.com

S3/EC2 for storing and serving file blocks. S3/EC2 for storing and serving file blocks. GeoIP for mapping IPs to locations. For those that are curious about what we chose and why, the software we used was: Python for virtually everything; not more than a couple thousand lines of C. nginx for the frontend server. Pretty standard.

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How To Bootstrap Your Startup

www.readwriteweb.com

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. Our product is fairly complex and Matt also nails the budget pretty well.

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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. All instances are created using the EC2 auto-scaler feature.

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Amazon Web Services (AWS)

SoCal CTO

The focus was S3 - storage service, EC2 - their compute cloud, their queuing system, and their flexible payment system. The EC2 is very similar to having a Linux box in a colocation facility. This would seem to be a good case for us to separate off matching and making that a more scalable operation on EC2.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

IP Location Tools. Amazon EC2. British Library Business & IP Centre : Funded by the London Development Agency, the British Library supports inventors, small businesses and entrepreneurs from that first spark of inspiration to successfully launching and developing a business. Xtranormal. Presentation tools. Login System.