Steve Blank

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Sloan realized that the traditional centralized management structures (like General Motors had in 1920) were poor fits for the management of GM’s already diverse product lines.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Our tests suite takes nine minutes to run (distributed across 30-40 machines). The longer you wait to find out about the problem, the more likely it is to have fallen out of the human-memory cache. It would be hard to argue against this product development strategy, in general. On commit automatically run all tests.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

Three of my favorite: memcached - an in-memory object caching system. MogileFS - "Distributed (meta) file system. Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? For tips on how to integrate it into your database and application layers, you can see the tail-end of my JIT Scalability talk.

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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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Startup Lessons Learned

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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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

pgbouncer (Lightweight connection pooler for PostgreSQL, from the developers of Skype). Varnish Cache (reverse proxy). free, distributed source code control management system. Great for visualizing work of product development. JS/CSS Compression Using YUI Compressor. mod_perlite (Perl). YUICompressor. Google Docs.

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