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Paywalls, SEO, and the Need for a Damn Good Brand

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Probably not, according to Matthew Brown , a consultant who previously managed SEO for The New York Times : You’d have to get really aggressive with metering to see a significant negative ranking impact. The downside of this method—if you use AMP—is that the article can be read on Google’s AMP cache. Accommodating AMP.

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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, 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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Lessons Learned: Great open source scalability tools from Danga

Startup Lessons Learned

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. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Lessons Learned: Continuous deployment and continuous learning

Startup Lessons Learned

The longer you wait to find out about the problem, the more likely it is to have fallen out of the human-memory cache. Expo New York New York, NY Nov 19 The Lean Startup at MIT Boston, MA Nov 20 Lunch workshop at Dogpatch Labs Boston, MA Dec 17 Lean Startup Cohort program begins San Francisco, CA KISSmetrics KISSmetrics is loading.

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

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To build applications we needed databases (Oracle), browsers (Netscape), servers (Sun Microsystems), storage (EMC), security (Semantic), application servers (Apache), caching software, load balancers, hosting facilities, programming languages and methods, CDNs, DSL equipment, Wifi routers and so forth. KickStarter? And on and on.

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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

The next time you needed to handle that page, you could take advantage of caching for excellent performance. There are also solutions to performance issues resulting from abstraction and runtime compilation (check out op-code caches such as APC). This sounds like a good trade-off, but it turned out to be a classic sub-optimization.

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Website Credibility: A 39-Point Checklist

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If The New York Times or TechCrunch has written about you, link to those stories. Use caching or a CDN. It’s more forgivable in blog posts, but unacceptable on your homepage, product pages, and other more static pages. Link to external websites that reference your organisation. Website speed. Ranking in Google.