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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 emerge and are there any lessons to be gained about the future? cheap accessible digital hardware].

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The bar is higher

This is going to be BIG.

From a technology perspective, so many parts of the stack have been made easier--from spinning up servers on EC2 and S3, to getting hosted Rails infrastructure on Heroku. My weekly newsletter on NYC events, with over 3300 subscribers, covers over a dozen events each week--and that's curated!

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Benchmarking Cassandra Scalability on AWS - Over a million writes per second

techblog.netflix.com

We picked a write oriented benchmark using the standard Cassandra "stress" tool that is part of the product, and Denis ran and analyzed the tests on Amazon EC2 instances. The time taken by EC2 to create 288 new instances was about 15 minutes out of our total of 66 minutes. All instances are created using the EC2 auto-scaler feature.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. This allowed followers to be able to “curate&# their newsfeed with people that they found interesting. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0

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What The Rails Security Issue Means For Your Startup

www.kalzumeus.com

Maybe it is a publicly accessible staging server at EC2 spun up by a developer who has since left the company and not shut down because, hey, $20 a month. I keep a list of my best work curated. I suggest this curated collection of the best work from this blog. Maybe it is the customer support portal at admin.example.com.

Security 101