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Technical Signs Of A Well-Managed Business

YoungUpstarts

There are several technical signs of a well-run business and we are going to review them in this article. Keeping operating systems up to date, adding anti-virus and anti-malware software, and installing additional security measures are equally important. Security as a Process. Devices must also be sufficiently protected.

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The Best SLA I’ve Seen In A While

Feld Thoughts

Instead, we had a one page PSA (professional services agreement) that spelled out in English that we charged $X per hour, would do our best, and our invoices were due upon receipt. Machines and clouds fail, even on EC2. My first company, Feld Technologies, didn’t have contracts. If Amazon is up, we’ll get the data.

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What The Rails Security Issue Means For Your Startup

www.kalzumeus.com

Kalzumeus Software. Patrick McKenzie (patio11) blogs on software development, marketing, and general business topics. Mostly, I sell software. ” What does “execute arbitrary code” mean? Literally, it means that the attacker can choose to have your server execute any code they can dream up.

Security 101
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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. million client writes per second. running in our test account.

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A framework for categorizing and comparing cloud platforms

bijoor.me

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. and also minimizes performance degradation due to server virtualization Examples : Virsto , OpenStack Cinder.

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Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups

Both Sides of the Table

That is excluding a single line of code or paying any salaries. At the time we viewed Amazon’s offering, EC2 as too nascent. Physically printed books or CDs with editors, reviewers and a centralized system are inherently slower and in many cases not even more accurate. We raised $16.5 million in our A round.

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5 Infrastructure Tips for Startups

blog.adaptiveblue.com

It is okay to go with a cheaper provider when you are just developing the code, but your production needs to run on a rock solid system. EC2 - The Elastic Compute Cloud Service EC2 is essentially a grid in the box. Then you create an image of all of that, including your own software, and roll it out onto the grid.

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