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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 We provide web and mobile application development services and are passionate about application performance.

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Twitter Link Roundup #60 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Useful comparison of Amazon vs. Rackspace clouds & why Mixpanel is moving to EC2 – [link]. 15 UI Design Patterns Web Designers Should Keep Handy – [link].

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Scaling lessons learned at Dropbox, part 1

eranki.tumblr.com

Here is one summary graph that we found the most useful: The top line represents average response time on the site (we had one of these graphs for web traffic, and one for client traffic). Paster/Pylons/Cheetah (web framework — minimal use beyond templating and handling form input). S3/EC2 for storing and serving file blocks.

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How To Bootstrap Your Startup

www.readwriteweb.com

Jackie: I would recommend instead Amazons EC2 and S3 platforms. That said, I dont think EC2 is reliable enough to depend upon, and the entire reputation of a startup can hinge on that. If our aim was to raise financing and employ these people directly, we’d have burnt through $5-7 million before launch. Cant wait for more ;).

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5 Infrastructure Tips for Startups

blog.adaptiveblue.com

Building large-scale web system was a black-magic exercise, which started with buying hardware and building a farm in your basement. Use Amazon Web Services You are still likely to need the regular hosting provider, but you should be aware of the increasingly important alternative - Amazon Web Services.

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What The Rails Security Issue Means For Your Startup

www.kalzumeus.com

An attacker was able to create a malicious gem, cause the Rubygems web application to evaluate the metadata contained in it, and thereby compromise the Rubygems server infrastructure. Maybe it is a publicly accessible staging server at EC2 spun up by a developer who has since left the company and not shut down because, hey, $20 a month.

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

blog.expensify.com

I was just looking at your web site. I do everything from raw-metal machine language to experimental languages to all the usual web front and back-end languages, and am one of those “started programming at 12 years old” types who had 5 years of college by the time I was 19. March 25, 2011 at 2:51 pm. I’m with Phil.

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