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

Both Sides of the Table

What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. Social Networking in Web 1.0. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. Social Networking in Web 2.0.

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Benchmarking Cassandra Scalability on AWS - Over a million writes per second

techblog.netflix.com

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

Software By Rob

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. 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).

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A framework for categorizing and comparing cloud platforms

bijoor.me

This framework can also be used to categorize various cloud platforms such as OpenStack, Amazon Web Services, Heroku and CloudFoundry. And see how this framework can be used to compare the different cloud platforms such as OpenStack, Amazon Web Services, Heroku and CloudFoundry. Mathematics. Photography. Sustainability. Contact Me.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

Useful blogs and links for startups Click Here ————– 2.

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Scaling lessons learned at Dropbox, part 1

eranki.tumblr.com

RSS Archive. 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). RSS feed: [link].

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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. Mentions - Marc Andreessen's - The three kinds of platforms you meet on the Internet A Level 1 platform's apps run elsewhere, and call into the platform via a web services API to draw on data and services -- this is how Flickr does it.

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