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Smart Bear Live 5: Dan from SyncBloc.com with Mark Suster

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

SyncBloc is a place that takes incredibly large files that are all stuck on your offline non-cloud service and helps you sync it with the cloud. It’s quite simple, which is when you had systems where you had limitations on distribution or transportation of products, it enabled you to operate with a certain cost structure.

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Benchmarking Cassandra Scalability on AWS - Over a million writes per second

techblog.netflix.com

The benchmark results should be reproducible by anyone, but the Netflix cloud platform automation for AWS makes it quick and easy to do this kind of test. distribution plus Netflix specific tooling and instrumentation. Writes stress a data store all the way to the disks, while read benchmarks may only exercise the in-memory cache.

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Soundbites from the Future – 2013

Start Up Blog

An era defined and dominated by the few who could afford the factories, the media and the distribution systems. Residents are collaborating to start, finance and manage public works projects and proving they can bootstrap a better job themselves. The top down era of one size fits all. And now it is over.

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