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Web Framework Performance - Startup Founders Need to See These Numbers

SoCal CTO

In looking at these numbers, seeing Cake PHP at 500x slower, Ruby-Rails and Django at 50x slower really surprised me. I was also surprised by the performance improvement on dedicated hardware as compared to EC2 instances of roughly 10x. The availability of talent was an important factor.

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Techies? Write Your Own Ticket In Southern California

blog.socaltech.com

cloud computing (Amazon AWS and EC2, etc.) Social media related skills are also big, i.e. In particular, be sure to use the latest Web 2.0+ For bonus points, make sure the back end uses Amazon EC2 and S3. Show you can code in any number of popular web technologies, such as Ruby on Rails, PHP, Python, etc.

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

blog.expensify.com

They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. My example: I have mainly programmed _by choice_ in Python, Ruby, Scala, Haskell, C# and currently I’m doing Java. They’ve tried everything. Everything, that is, but.NET.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

Blogs (web development): Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots – [link] Company blog of thoughtbot covering Ruby on Rails, HTML, CSS, Javascript, databases, and mobile development. Blogs (VC): Antonio Rodriguez [link] – A very technical VC at Matrix partners who can actually code.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Ruby Toolbox. Social networking. Social/Sharing. Sinatra : Super easy to use, the only drawback is that you have to learn ruby setup your database. s free, supports ruby, nodejs, static files, and a few other languages. Rails (Ruby). Amazon EC2. Mockingbird. Adobe Photoshop *. Color Choose.