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Choosing a Programming Language and Framework for Your Startup

SoCal CTO

Closely Aligned Functional Needs The most common reason that a language and platform is chosen is because there's an existing set of (often open source) functionality that you can tap into that aligns closely with your functional needs. For example, you may have content management and community needs that closely align with Drupal.

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What is Drupal? or, My retraining in Software Development

Scalable Startup

Anyone who’s been around me for the past 6-12 months has been inundated with my evangelism of eCommerce in general and Drupal + PHP. They bring with them confidence, tools, brilliant people and believe it or not, Drupal and PHP. Drupal and PHP were tools I’ve acknowledged for a decade but never studied much.

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Gazzang Banks $3.5M Series A

Austin Startup

million in Series A funding to develop management solutions that help secure open source software such as Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl (LAMP), and accelerate enterprise adoption of public, private and hybrid cloud environments. Gazzang, Inc., the cloud infrastructure software company, today announced it has secured $3.5

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The cloud landscape described, categorized, and compared

www.theenterprisearchitect.eu

Other examples are what Heroku calls a  Dyno ,  CloudFoundry Warden , and the most recent one by Google:  lmctfy  (it seems that creating and open sourcing your own application container is the new hip). Examples are  Google App Engine  (which allows you to deploy Java, Python, Go, and PHP) and  Heroku Buildpacks.

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When You Should Still Use a Relational Database Instead of NoSQL

www.readwriteweb.com

Monash also gives recommendations on when its less clear whether one should use a relational or non-relational database and notes that various next-generation relational databases (which have been called NewSQL ) may change the equation in the future. More articles & blogs » POPULAR TAGS javascript google api apis node.js startupcto

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

If youre of the type of organization that doesnt use db access objects directly, but simply passes SQL statements through a central API, you can try this: consider the entity identifier as part of the statement itself. Nearly every SQL query I see has a join. We can start, as most startups do, with a single, central master DB.

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

blog.expensify.com

You need to hear this from someone who has used.Net extensively, and then happily walked away from it to go open source: You are a wanker. Full discloure, I am a former PHP, Perl, ColdFusion, ActionScript, VB.NET, ASP.NET and C# developer. It’s an *freaking open source*.net The list goes on and on.

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