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Benchmarking Cassandra Scalability on AWS - Over a million writes per second

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

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As one of the coherent commentators says below, Joel Spolsky himself laments schools teaching Java with the same basic reasoning of my article above, albeit more diplomatically stated.) .NET My example: I have mainly programmed _by choice_ in Python, Ruby, Scala, Haskell, C# and currently I’m doing Java. Alcides Fonseca.

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Startup Resources

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t have time to learn iOS or Java during the weekend. IP Location Tools. Aptana Cloud (svn, IDE, php, java, rails etc…). Amazon EC2. Lodestone Innovation Partners (IP) Ltd are spin-out specialists. Sendgrid : Need to send email out to users? Use Sendgrid! Mobile Tools: If you are a web developer, you donâ??t