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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

Add onto that the incredible amounts of infrastructure code that we reused, and we were able to bring our product to market months earlier. 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. In most cases, simple changes are simple to make.

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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. Youll learn how they pioneered the use of a lot of open source tools at new levels of scale, and even created quite a few more, that are essential scaling aids. MogileFS - "Distributed (meta) file system.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

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Update: The end is near, Expensify is hiring a.NET programmer! As you might know, we’re hiring the best programmers in the world. If you are a startup looking to hire really excellent people, take notice of.NET on a resume, and ask why it’s there. Expensify Blog. Expense Reports That Don't Suck.

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