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Lessons Learned: Five Whys

Startup Lessons Learned

It seems your cluster architecture is one of the key architectural constraints making continuous deployment possible. If you cant deploy to 5% of the nodes and check the results, then how would you accomplish continuous deployment? Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Lessons Learned: The ABCDEF's of conducting a technical interview

Startup Lessons Learned

and going into a long diatribe about how insecure the ActiveX architecture was compared to Javas pristine sandbox. what happens if we have a pipelined architecture? Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. I remember once being asked in a Microsoft group interview (and dinner) about the ActiveX security model.

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Lessons Learned: The hacker's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, December 7, 2008 The hackers lament One of the thrilling parts of working and writing in Silicon Valley is the incredible variety of people Ive had the chance to meet. I know them right away - we can talk high-level architecture all the way down to the bits-and-bytes of his system.

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What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups?

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Much of what makes the USA, and Silicon Valley in particular, such a great place to start a company is the result of good government policy. This line in your article stood out to me: "Much of what makes the USA, and Silicon Valley in particular, such a great place to start a company is the result of good government policy."

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Lessons Learned: Achieving a failure

Startup Lessons Learned

Even though some aspects of the product were eventually vindicated as good ones, the underlying architecture suffered from hard-to-change assumptions. Even a great architecture becomes inflexible. As with many Silicon Valley failures, a flawless PR launch turned into a flawed customer acquisition strategy.