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WordPress Scalability on AWS – High Availability WordPress

The Startup Magazine

Vertical Scalability. Vertical scaling websites are acquiring hardware with increased capabilities. Mostly vertical scaling has problems of its own. Bottlenecking usually occurs on vertical scaled configuration when the load increases. The increasing CPU memory and RAM improve the site speed and its performance.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

This is true of most web application servers, caches like memcached, and all of the network infrastructure that connects them. For example, Friendster was famously vertically partitioned at one time in its growth curve. Data storage is becoming a specialized function, delegated most often to relational databases. to store it.

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SXSW Startups: Molecula

Austin Startup

You now run Pilosa, what you describe as β€œan open source, distributed index designed to help analyze huge datasets at UI latency.” In the meantime we are narrowing our focus to three verticals (bioinformatics, connected devices, security/fraud) and are choosing our clients very carefully to tell the best success stories we can.

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Demand Generation: Turning Tactics into Strategy

ConversionXL

Building a cache of user data in a CRM that’s strong enough to inform demand gen campaignsβ€”what content to produce, where to distribute itβ€”can take years, according to Brandt Bogdanovich of MST Solutions. Create and distribute content to those segments. For some companies, actionable user data is not just dated but nonexistent.

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Libox Wants To Manage All of Your Media and on Any Device (Interview with Erez Pilosof)

VC Cafe

Our system is managed by a patent-pending combination of distributed, grid and peer to peer technologies along with sophisticated analytic algorithms to do the smart matching beween your media and the device. VC Cafe: Sounds like there’s a lot of caching and data transfer. VC Cafe: So, you’re not worried about distribution?

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Durant Versus Sloan – Part 1

Steve Blank

Top management was trying to coordinate all of the operating details (sales, manufacturing, distribution and marketing,) across all the divisions and the company almost went bankrupt that year when poor planning led to excess inventory (with unsold cars piling up at dealers and the company running out of cash.)

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley 12: The Rise of β€œRisk Capital.

Steve Blank

Ampex’s first customer was Bing Crosby who wanted to record his radio programs for rebroadcast (and had exclusive distribution rights.) Ampex business took off when Terman introduced Ampex founder Alex Poniatoff to Joseph and Henry McMicking.