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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. We eventually ended up converting everything to SQLAlchemy’s lowest-level language for constructing SQL (one step away from raw SQL). nginx for the frontend server. Pretty standard.

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Startup Resources

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IP Location Tools. Amazon EC2. SQL database hosting from browser.Python/Javascript APIs. Lodestone Innovation Partners (IP) Ltd are spin-out specialists. “My IP” – produced by the UK Intellectual Property Office. Xtranormal. Presentation tools. Login System. Social functionality. Crowdfactory.

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How To Bootstrap Your Startup

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Our development was a particularly complicated build requiring 5 developers, a systems architect, an html coder, a SQL specialist, 4 testers, 2 designers, a graphic designer, a project manager and a security specialist. Jackie: I would recommend instead Amazons EC2 and S3 platforms. I can’t wait to read the rest of the series!

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

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If someone comes to you with Ruby on Rails experience, do you assume they are ignorant of SQL? I learned C# and.NET (along with HTML/CSS/JS/SQL/etc) because that’s what they used. there are start ups who are legitimately using.net because they don’t need to look directly into the tcp/ip stack. Matt Sherman.

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