'We’ve posted Round 4 of our ongoing project measuring the performance of many web application frameworks and platforms. Onion , a C platform contributed by Coralbits is now included in the EC2 JSON serialization test and the results are extremely impressive, clocking in over 52,000 JSON responses per second. View Round 4 results now. MORE >>

The thing is, almost all of what we use on the web today exists ‘in the cloud’ at some level or another. Oh, and when you reach wherever it is that you Internet buzzwords fade away to, please do say hello to our old friend “ Web 2.0 ”, will you? Yes, yes I know…ol’ Marc has subjected you to yet another bad pun. Hilarious!). My $0.02 MORE >>

We had to buy Oracle database licenses, UNIX servers, a Sun Solaris operating system, web servers, load balancers, EMC storage, disk mirrors for redundancy and had to commit to a year-long hosting agreement at places such as Exodus. Linux (instead of UNIX), Apache (web server software), MySQL (instead of Oracle) and PHP. Rewind. MORE >>

Then when people really started using it I set up EC2 for fail-over, and now EC2 is our primary host. I still like the idea of having a server for non-production use, e.g. this Web site. For the first two years or so, I ran DuckDuckGo out of my basement. We still use these basement servers for a variety of things, however. MORE >>

Bunker is a project management and online billing service built by small web application developer Focus Centric that is positioned for use by freelancers and small businesses. The developer – who created his first product, a CMS and eCommerce web app back in 2008 – says that development on his product will never be done. MORE >>