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Lessons Learned: Great open source scalability tools from Danga

Startup Lessons Learned

Three of my favorite: memcached - an in-memory object caching system. sadly, this blog forces you to use a google account. Get in touch: Twitter Email Facebook Linkedin Additional resources Startup LessonsLearned, All Seasons : Every post from the blog, in one 600+ page PDF. MogileFS - "Distributed (meta) file system.

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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

From e-commerce to blogs to photo galleries, we benefited from tens of thousands of lines of code that had already been battle-tested. 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. In most cases, simple changes are simple to make.

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

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Expensify Blog. Update: The end is near, Expensify is hiring a.NET programmer! As you might know, we’re hiring the best programmers in the world. If you are a startup looking to hire really excellent people, take notice of.NET on a resume, and ask why it’s there. Expense Reports That Don't Suck.

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