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Scaling lessons learned at Dropbox, part 1

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RSS Archive. S3/EC2 for storing and serving file blocks. S3/EC2 for storing and serving file blocks. GeoIP for mapping IPs to locations. RSS feed: [link]. Rajivs blog. July 12, 2012. Scaling lessons learned at Dropbox, part 1. Rajiv Eranki. For most of that time we had one to three people working on the backend.

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How To Bootstrap Your Startup

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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

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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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Subscribe to comments with RSS. 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. Now where is the RSS-feed, i want more of this stuff. March 25, 2011 at 7:00 am. Posted in CEO Friday , Job. » 510 Responses.

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Startup Resources

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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.