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Technical Signs Of A Well-Managed Business

YoungUpstarts

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. You can run your databases on top of Oracle’s cloud service while keeping the computing parts of your application in AWS EC2.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. I am heavily indebted to earlier theorists, and highly recommend the books Lean Thinking and Lean Software Development. Of course, many startups are capital efficient and generally frugal. No more, no less.

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Scaling lessons learned at Dropbox, part 1

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Some software just doesn’t even handle non-UTC time properly, so don’t do it! 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. S3/EC2 for storing and serving file blocks. GeoIP for mapping IPs to locations.

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How To Bootstrap Your Startup

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But it is fraught with risks - and the primary risk you need to guard against is software development failure. Vendor long-list - build a “long-list&# of possible software vendors and NDA them all, but don’t rely on it (more on this later). Award contract - Negotiate a software development contract.

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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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This literally the dumbest, most ignorant piece that I’ve ever read about software development and/or hiring programmers. NET and PHP, I can tell you the average.NET guy knows far more about good software design than the average PHP guy. In every population there are some that are both brilliant and malicious. Sjoerd Franken.

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Startup Resources

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IP Location Tools. Amazon EC2. free/cheap web customer relationship mgmt software. marketing automation software. email blast and mgmt software. email blast and mgmt software. email blast software. email blast software. basic email software. free basic email blast software.