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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. 6: Software as a Service (SaaS) Users : End-users. Business Analytics & Intelligence. Innovation.

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An ongoing discussion on linkedin about Offshore Web Development and building a team in Europe.

Scalable Startup

work is mostly drupal, wordpress, seo and php/lamp. People in the Philippines or India or eastern europe are very low cost – $7-10/hour. I had a company in europe in the past and was very happy with the quality software we created. You can find great resources in India or in any part of the world. still have hope.

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How to Find Great Outsourced Help Online

Growthink Blog

For instance, in one company I ran, I would create tasks during the day, give them to my outsourced team in India, and they would be done by the time I arrived in the office the next morning. Software needed. Other software is industry-specific, like Adobe Photoshop among graphic designers. Programming languages.

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Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?

www.quora.com

Where can I find co-founders who understand distributed systems and databases? How have non-technical founders found technical co-founders? Finding Co-Founders: What are some good ways to find technical co-founders in India? It's my perspective as well and I'm not a software engineer let alone a rockstar.

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

blog.expensify.com

Full discloure, I am a former PHP, Perl, ColdFusion, ActionScript, VB.NET, ASP.NET and C# developer. You can develop web.apps in assembly language if you insist, but it’ll take 10 times more time and money than doing it with.net, php, ror or other modern languages and you’ll have 10 times more bugs to deal with.

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Finding a Technical Partner for Your Startup

rapidrollout.wordpress.com

First Things First: Your Requirements You seem to feel that your project isn’t ready to move forward without a software developer (a “programmer&# , as you say). Might be cost effective if you outsource your project to India Inc. @$10-15/hour. Again, you may not know what anyone is talking about. 10-15/hour.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

Incremental and proportional software complexity. nice post April 2, 2009 11:00 PM web design India said. Most key-hashing schemes have some breaking point where, if you add just one more shard, you have to re-hash all of the data (imagine having to add a 27th database server to the alphabet-hashing scheme discussed above).