techblog.netflix.com

NOVEMBER 26, 2011

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.

EC2 68

EC2 Caching Software Review Java 68

blog.socaltech.com

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

My conclusion: if you’re a software engineer, with good technical background and ability, you can pretty much write your own ticket in Southern California. cloud computing (Amazon AWS and EC2, etc.) and even bigger, architecture-level talent (particularly software architects who know how to scale a web based service or software).

Southern California 40

Southern California California EC2 Software Engineering 40

blog.adaptiveblue.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

EC2 - The Elastic Compute Cloud Service EC2 is essentially a grid in the box. It is a service that directly competes with your hosting provider, since it allows you to create and dynamically provision identical instances of your software. You then can ask EC2 to start instances with your configuration on the fly.

EC2 40

EC2 Widget Software Review Startup 40

The Equity Kicker

MAY 22, 2012

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. They have 31 employees, up from 12 in December.

EC2 138

EC2 Database Open Source Valuation 138

bijoor.me

MARCH 26, 2014

Johan proposes a framework that describes the various layers of cloud platform services starting from virtualized hardware up to end-user software applications. 1: Software Defined Datacenter Users : Infrastructure Engineers. 6: Software as a Service (SaaS) Users : End-users. Communicate. 2: Foundational PaaS Users : DevOps.

Framework 42

Framework Cloud Software Review Azure 42

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Third-party software companies will start to offer features to websites to actually drive social features. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). They’re mostly now thinking about serving demographically targeted ads to you, but that’s not very interesting.

Social Network 297

Social Network Networking Internet EC2 297

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. I am heavily indebted to earlier theorists, and highly recommend the books Lean Thinking and Lean Software Development. Of course, many startups are capital efficient and generally frugal. No more, no less.

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Lean San Francisco Startup Continuous Deployment 168

BeyondVC

SEPTEMBER 5, 2007

Hence, a new approach was needed (our database software running on commodity clusters) which would allow companies to load and query terabytes of data at 10-100x performance and scale over traditional vendors. Think about Amazon’s S3 and EC2 which I have written about before as utility storage and processing for the masses.

CTO Hire 60

CTO Hire Fractional CTO EC2 Database 60

Software By Rob

OCTOBER 26, 2009

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). If you’re having trouble installing an open source app, JumpBox is your answer.

Open Source 37

Open Source Technical Review Software Review EC2 37

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Useful comparison of Amazon vs. Rackspace clouds & why Mixpanel is moving to EC2 – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. Lessons Learned From Helping Over 150 Startups With Marketing Part 1 – [link].

Social Media 92

Social Media Costa Rica Small Business Design 92

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Our team dabbles in everything from S3 and EC2 cloud services to SIMD and assembly code. Our team includes 12 top-notch engineers from NVidia, Microsoft, Stanford, Berkeley and Cornell. Thousands of our users create interesting content every day. We have a deep technology stack.

San Francisco 92

San Francisco CTO Hire Developer EC2 92

SoCal CTO

JUNE 14, 2008

Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. Finally we get to: Peter Coffee , Director of Platform Research, Salesforce.com His premise is that we should be beyond having to buy servers, software, or any other infrastructure. Amazon EC2 - uses it for natural language processing.

Internet 150

Internet EC2 Java API 150

www.theenterprisearchitect.eu

MARCH 26, 2014

Most people there knew the difference between Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and therefore knew exactly what a PaaS company did, right? Contents: Layer 1: the software-defined datacenter. Software Defined Datacenterâ?? OpenStack, AWS, Heroku, CloudFoundry).

Cloud 48

Cloud Software Review Framework Java 48

eranki.tumblr.com

JULY 13, 2012

Some software just doesn’t even handle non-UTC time properly, so don’t do it! For those that are curious about what we chose and why, the software we used was: Python for virtually everything; not more than a couple thousand lines of C. S3/EC2 for storing and serving file blocks. Technologies we used.

Software Review 94

Software Review Database SQL Security 94

Feld Thoughts

MARCH 15, 2010

You don’t need an Amazon EC2 or Rackspace account, as with “appliance&# providers. You don’t need to know how to install and configure a web server or MySQL, or download, install and configure software code. You don’t need to learn about “instances&# and “images&# and security groups.

Cloud 116

Cloud EC2 Open Source Hosting 116

www.kalzumeus.com

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Kalzumeus Software. Patrick McKenzie (patio11) blogs on software development, marketing, and general business topics. Mostly, I sell software. Software security does, in general, suck. Software security has a curious system of social norms, where scalp collecting both builds both karma and pseudo-currency.

Security 101

Security Software Review Ruby Startup 101

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

signup, upgrade, trial pricing Zuora – online subscription management FeeFighters – find the cheapest credit card processors HealPay – Collections made easy Customer Support Tender – support, knowledgebase tool for your site GetSatisfaction - conversations between companies / customers.

Software Review 110

Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics 110

Andrew Payne

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

I’ve become generally negative on most pure software projects. EC2, S3) removes most up-front capital requirements. It’s just tough for entrepreneurs: there will be some nice software exits, but returns are becoming so skewed, it’s more like a lottery than anything based on skill. Cloud-based hosting (e.g.

EC2 47

EC2 Open Source Software Cloud 47

BeyondVC

OCTOBER 27, 2009

Phase 2 - Rise of open source - I would call Phase 2 the rise of open source software over the last 10 years - most of which is hardcore infrastructure type software such as databases, virtualization software, and the like. Yes there are public clouds like Amazon EC2 which is now also offering virtualized private clouds.

EC2 99

EC2 Open Source Cloud Angel Investor 99

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Amazon EC2. free/cheap web customer relationship mgmt software. marketing automation software. email blast and mgmt software. email blast and mgmt software. email blast software. email blast software. basic email software. free basic email blast software. shopping cart software.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

But it is fraught with risks - and the primary risk you need to guard against is software development failure. Vendor long-list - build a “long-list&# of possible software vendors and NDA them all, but don‚Äôt rely on it (more on this later). Award contract - Negotiate a software development contract.

Bootstrapping 41

Bootstrapping Offshore Startup EC2 41

BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

  Secondly, while everyone looks in the consumer space, I want to look at how software companies can deploy new enterprise-based applications in the cloud, particularly for small/medium sized businesses.  Rightscale is an on-ramp to Amazon EC2 and other clouds and provides automate systems management. 

Cloud 60

Cloud EC2 Sales Cycle Cofounder 60

VC Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2011

While traditional cloud testing vendors target the enterprise market, BlazeMeter plans to revolutionize the load testing market in the same way AWS/EC2 disrupted the virtualization market by introducing a self-service low cost cloud and Heroku pioneered the first Ruby cloud. Blazemeter real time reports and monitoring.

Cloud 106

Cloud North America EC2 106

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Five years ago, a small business launching a new online product would traditionally have purchased their own servers and software, or leased servers, software and hosting services from one of many hosting providers around the world. The cloud has changed the way individuals and organizations of all sizes leverage technology.

Cloud 105

Cloud Small Business Hosting Social Media 105

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

This literally the dumbest, most ignorant piece that I’ve ever read about software development and/or hiring programmers. NET and PHP, I can tell you the average.NET guy knows far more about good software design than the average PHP guy. In every population there are some that are both brilliant and malicious. Sjoerd Franken.

Java 107

Java PHP Software Review Coder 107

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? Third-party software companies will start to offer features to websites to actually drive social features. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). But let’s be honest – they’re mostly the same old shit as Web 1.0,

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

At the time we viewed Amazon’s offering, EC2 as too nascent. Imagine that you can develop software on your local computer but the entire service is delivered virtually through a partner in the same way people consumer energy with all of the scale benefits that go with that. Think about it.

Cloud 343

Cloud Technical Review Database Semantic 343