Steve Blank

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Sloan Foundation , the Sloan School of Management at MIT , the Sloan program at Stanford , and the Sloan/Kettering Memorial Cancer Center in New York. If you look around the United States it’s hard to avoid Sloan. There’s the Alfred P. Sloan’s book My Years with General Motors written 40 years ago is still a business classic.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Our tests suite takes nine minutes to run (distributed across 30-40 machines). Since these two steps are pipelined that means at peak we’re pushing a new revision of the code to the website every nine minutes. The longer you wait to find out about the problem, the more likely it is to have fallen out of the human-memory cache.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

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. Three of my favorite: memcached - an in-memory object caching system. MogileFS - "Distributed (meta) file system. Spray files across cheap disks on your network.

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JANUARY 4, 2009

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. This is a good summary and very useful data layer scaling approach.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Terman arranged for a research assistantship to bring his former student, David Packard, back from a job at General Electric in New York to collaborate with William Hewlett, another of Terman’s graduate students. Fred Terman and David Packard of HP joined Varian’s board. Terman was also on the board of HP.

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JANUARY 12, 2009

The next time you needed to handle that page, you could take advantage of caching for excellent performance. For most of its existence, PHP didnt have a standard package-distribution system or very good module support. This sounds like a good trade-off, but it turned out to be a classic sub-optimization.

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