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Framework Benchmarks Round 10

TechEmpower

We retired our in-house i7-2600K hardware environment for Round 10, and we changed our Amazon EC2 environment to c3.large Go remains a strong performer in the smaller-server scenario as demonstrated by our EC2 c3.large These contributions have improved the project''s toolset and added many new framework test implementations.

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Work Less, Get More Done, Convenient Open Source, What a Startup.

Software By Rob

Making Open Source Convenient: JumpBox – A startup focused on making it dead-simple to get started with open source applications, they create virtual machines completely pre-configured to just start and go (including versions that runs on Amazon EC2). Check out my book Like this post?

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How Not To Run Your Own Technology Startup

YoungUpstarts

P.S. Three types of external providers are not mentioned because they are well known: open-source software stacks, domain name (DNS) providers, and marketing/social networking sites. Amazon EC2 – Computing, server management, hosting. Github – Source code control, code change discussion (+mobile).

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Techies? Write Your Own Ticket In Southern California

blog.socaltech.com

cloud computing (Amazon AWS and EC2, etc.) For bonus points, make sure the back end uses Amazon EC2 and S3. Get involved in open source, as much as you can. and even bigger, architecture-level talent (particularly software architects who know how to scale a web based service or software).

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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. One that is powered by three drivers, each of which is a part of a major trend: The use of platforms enabled by open source and free software. Seth Godin: How often should you publish?

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Pinterest – a case study in capital efficiency

The Equity Kicker

As most of you will know, the enablers are cloud computing and open source software. Pinterest now supports 18m users with growth running at 50% per month with the following: Amazon costs are around $39k for S3 and $30k for EC2 (I assume per month). They have 275 EC2 instances. 70 master databases.

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). There will be other layers including place information and open-source data. Social Networking Will Split Into Layers. One of the most interesting trends in the last few years has been watching the Internet split into layers.