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Customer Development Manifesto: Market Type (part 4) « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

In future posts I’ll describe how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. Palm in a New Market What makes this example really interesting is this: rewind the story 4 years earlier to 1996.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

In this scheme, all of the data related to a specific feature of a product are stored on the same machines. For example, Friendster was famously vertically partitioned at one time in its growth curve. I just dont comment. :) Steve, The term was in active use in 1996 in the MMO world, which predates Googles founding. to store it.