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My story and support for the Founders Visa

K9 Ventures

In December 1996, while I was still a student in the Master of Software Engineering program at Carnegie Mellon, I got bit hard by the entrepreneurial bug. In my attempt to build credibility and recruit people for my little company, I had started the Pittsburgh Java Users Group (the PittJUG today has close to 500 members!).

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Benchmarking Cassandra Scalability on AWS - Over a million writes per second

techblog.netflix.com

This team is currently looking for an additional engineer. Stress command line java -jar stress.jar -d "144 node ids" -e ONE -n 27000000 -l 3 -i 1 -t 200 -p 7102 -o INSERT -c 10 -r The client is writing 10 columns per row key, row key randomly chosen from 27 million ids, each column has a key and 10 bytes of data.

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