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Framework Benchmarks Round 7

TechEmpower

Happy Halloween fans of web development frameworks! After a several-month hiatus, Round 7 of our project measuring the performance of web application frameworks and platforms is available! One particularly interesting anomaly is the dominance of Windows paired with Mongo on EC2 in the Updates test.

Framework 507
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Developer Focus: Dominic St Pierre, Focus Centric

YoungUpstarts

When the proposal module comes online, though, the pricing will be revised – upwards – to reflect the new feature.

Developer 159
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How 99Designs.com came to be

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

Don’ts: 1) Don’t hide from customers, his personal cell phone was on SP website 2) Don’t trust vendors and prepay for things. Consider using Amazon EC2, 99Designs uses it, they get 5.25TB of images uploaded frequently, EC2 helped them scale with customer demand. Some vendors go bankrupt.

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Frameworks Round 1

TechEmpower

This is an EC2 test run on a pair of Large instances. Among the many factors to consider when choosing a web development framework, raw performance is easy to objectively measure. We ran each test on EC2 and our i7 hardware. First up is plain JSON serialization on Amazon EC2 large instances. Motivation.

Framework 544
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Framework Benchmarks

TechEmpower

This is an EC2 test run on a pair of Large instances. Among the many factors to consider when choosing a web development framework, raw performance is easy to objectively measure. We ran each test on EC2 and our i7 hardware. First up is plain JSON serialization on Amazon EC2 large instances. Motivation.

Framework 560
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What The Rails Security Issue Means For Your Startup

www.kalzumeus.com

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. Anyone that downplays security is simply a bad developer for real projects. They have already patched most of their main apps, but they missed one. Great post.

Security 101
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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

My entry into web development (after 7 years of Unix development, 4 writing console games, and 3 writing router firmware) was helping my father-in-law’s company. I gather you assume that everyone’s a web developer? of computers, that for various reasons can’t be a web page” a good reason?

Java 107