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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, August 24, 2009 Marching through quicksand I have been spending a lot of time lately talking to people in various media companies: editors and agents, executives, journalists, producers and directors. Doug August 24, 2009 8:21 AM Hugh said. August 24, 2009 8:36 AM Erin said. Very smart stuff.

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The curse of prevention

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 5, 2009 The curse of prevention Beware! In other words, a principled way to combine agility with stability. If we’re practicing continuous deployment, we can be confident that we’ll be able to rush an emergency fix into production without risking introducing further problems.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, January 4, 2009 Sharding for startups The most important aspect of a scalable web architecture is data partitioning. For example, Friendster was famously vertically partitioned at one time in its growth curve. January 5, 2009 9:36 AM Eric said. January 5, 2009 9:49 AM Nathan said.