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Lessons Learned: Great open source scalability tools from Danga

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, September 5, 2008 Great open source scalability tools from Danga If you are trying to build a scalable LAMP service, its always best to start with the original and still quite relevant presentation, from Brad Fitzpatrick when he was at LiveJournal. MogileFS - "Distributed (meta) file system.

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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

In that system, the first time you loaded a script to handle a page, the whole script (as well as associated data) were kept resident in memory. The next time you needed to handle that page, you could take advantage of caching for excellent performance. This let us hire extremely high-caliber programmers to work on it.

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