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Lessons Learned: Continuous deployment and continuous learning

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, February 10, 2009 Continuous deployment and continuous learning At long last, some of the actual implementers of the advanced systems we built at IMVU for rapid deployment and rapid response are starting to write about it. Continuous learning -> Continuous feedback!

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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. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

This is true of most web application servers, caches like memcached, and all of the network infrastructure that connects them. For example, you might notice that caching gets a lot easier if you have good metadat about which queries are associated with the same entity. Nobody I know uses plain hashing for that reason.

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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. The next time you needed to handle that page, you could take advantage of caching for excellent performance. Hello Eric Ries , Thanks for the great blog. Nice blog. Im curious.

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