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Scaling lessons learned at Dropbox, part 1

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S3/EC2 for storing and serving file blocks. S3/EC2 for storing and serving file blocks. GeoIP for mapping IPs to locations. have serious security problems and seem to be able to weather a small PR storm. Paster/Pylons/Cheetah (web framework — minimal use beyond templating and handling form input). 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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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

there are start ups who are legitimately using.net because they don’t need to look directly into the tcp/ip stack. Purchase IP from the vendors. I tried to continue reading but it is obvious that you are closer to PR or marketing than to the tech area. of course, you’re allowed to have your opinions. What did we do?

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