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Frameworks Round 6

TechEmpower

July marks the fourth month of our ongoing project measuring the performance of web application frameworks and platforms. The results web site has been improved with test-type and hardware-type navigation, allowing you to share links to a specific results chart, such as Round 6, Fortunes on EC2. We are hiring.

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Developer Focus: Dominic St Pierre, Focus Centric

YoungUpstarts

Bunker is a project management and online billing service built by small web application developer Focus Centric that is positioned for use by freelancers and small businesses. But he wanted to be able to scale his application fast in case of high demand, and didn’t want the hassle of maintaining too much hardware at the same time.

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How 99Designs.com came to be

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

He figured out quickly that there was a demand for printed tutorials. He said they found some sh*ty online print on demand service who could take credit cards and went from there. Consider using Amazon EC2, 99Designs uses it, they get 5.25TB of images uploaded frequently, EC2 helped them scale with customer demand.

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Techies? Write Your Own Ticket In Southern California

blog.socaltech.com

Every week, I run across many companies who tell me they’re looking for good referrals of software engineers, and particularly those with a good background in web-based or mobile technology. What’s in demand? cloud computing (Amazon AWS and EC2, etc.) cloud computing (Amazon AWS and EC2, etc.)

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Twitter Link Roundup #60 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Useful comparison of Amazon vs. Rackspace clouds & why Mixpanel is moving to EC2 – [link]. 15 UI Design Patterns Web Designers Should Keep Handy – [link].

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Do you believe in the Red Shift theory?

BeyondVC

Martin neatly summarizes Red Shift as defined by Sun’s Greg Papadopoulos to be: Red Shift refers to companies experiencing exponential growth in demand for raw computing power. Red-shift companies tend to be Web 2.0 focused like YouTube and MySpace, or big financial, energy, or pharmaceutical companies.

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Stories of Opportunity from the First Round Capital Key Hire Wire – COO, VP of Business Development, Online Marketing Director

This is going to be BIG.

ROBLOX ( www.roblox.com ) is a web/game startup in Silicon Valley that you have probably never heard of--unless you were an eight year old boy, in which case you're probably not qualified for this position. Our team dabbles in everything from S3 and EC2 cloud services to SIMD and assembly code. We have a deep technology stack.