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Lessons Learned: Five Whys

Startup Lessons Learned

Wish I could figure out how to apply it to the average data warehousing project which has a single shareed database right at the heart of the entire solution. It seems your cluster architecture is one of the key architectural constraints making continuous deployment possible. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

Data storage is becoming a specialized function, delegated most often to relational databases. If you are storing all of your data in a relational database, and the load on that database exceeds its capacity, there is no automatic solution that allows you to simply add more hardware and scale up.

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Lessons Learned: A new version of the Joel Test (draft)

Startup Lessons Learned

But if you want to practice rapid deployment, you need to be able to deploy that build in one step as well. If you want to do continuous deployment, youd better be able to certify that build too, which brings us to. For more on continuous deployment, see Just-in-time Scalability. Do you have a bug database?

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Lessons Learned: Great open source scalability tools from Danga

Startup Lessons Learned

For tips on how to integrate it into your database and application layers, you can see the tail-end of my JIT Scalability talk. sadly, this blog forces you to use a google account. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Startup Lessons Learned season one : Every post from the blogs first year in print form.

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

Massive proprietary databases? I would love to see some blog posts on any experiences you have had with set-based design. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Great piece!

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Lessons Learned: Lean hiring tips

Startup Lessons Learned

They maintain a huge database of passive candidates, by offering to pay them when they interview. You are doing the startup community a great service by sharing your insights via your blog. The blog is fantastic as well. Particularly the Continuous Deployment and Split testing posts. Another terrific post, Eric.

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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. PHP has always scored well on this count, with lots of support for database drivers, URL parsing, HTTP fetching, regular expressions - you name it. Sure, it may trump old CGI scripts. Im curious.

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