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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. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

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. The next time you needed to handle that page, you could take advantage of caching for excellent performance. This let us hire extremely high-caliber programmers to work on it.

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