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Technical Signs Of A Well-Managed Business

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There are several technical signs of a well-run business and we are going to review them in this article. Keeping operating systems up to date, adding anti-virus and anti-malware software, and installing additional security measures are equally important. One IP for All. Security as a Process.

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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. million client writes per second. running in our test account.

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Startup Resources

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VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. s the new way to code, and quite easy to learn. You can write back end code in javascript, one language conquers all! IP Location Tools. Code Igniter. Code Hosting and Version Control. Xtranormal.

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Scaling lessons learned at Dropbox, part 1

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If there is a way to do this, it would also be cool to have markings on the graph that point to events you can annotate such as code push, or AWS outage. It’s almost a way of randomly tracing your code. If you can afford to push code through the infrequent code paths more often it’ll save some headaches.

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

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The right sort of person is so passionate about coding, they can’t be stopped from doing it. But every day spent in that kitchen is a day NOT spent in a real kitchen, learning how to cook real food, and write real code. I currently work in information security, and I help teach developers how to write better, more secure code.

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