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FEBRUARY 27, 2012
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EC2 Related Topics 
Frameworks Round 2
TechEmpower
APRIL 5, 2013
On Tuesday of this week, we kicked off a pair of EC2 instances and a pair of our i7 workstations to produce updated data. We dive right in with the EC2 JSON test results, but please read to the end where we include important notes about what has changed since last week.
Trending Sources
Framework Benchmarks
TechEmpower
MARCH 28, 2013
This is an EC2 test run on a pair of Large instances. We ran each test on EC2 and our i7 hardware. First up is plain JSON serialization on Amazon EC2 large instances. The high-performance Netty platform takes a commanding lead for JSON serialization on EC2.
More Innovation
deal architect
APRIL 21, 2013
on the New Florence blog Mail Catalogs: Ben Franklin is looking down in awe Rocket Ship Radio Innovations Outdoor Advertising evolves and thrives Reexamining scientific truths Amazon EC2 Spot Instances Rex, the Bionic Man The Big Data of Pi.
Frameworks Round 1
TechEmpower
APRIL 30, 2013
This is an EC2 test run on a pair of Large instances. We ran each test on EC2 and our i7 hardware. First up is plain JSON serialization on Amazon EC2 large instances. The high-performance Netty platform takes a commanding lead for JSON serialization on EC2.
Framework Benchmarks Round 7
TechEmpower
OCTOBER 31, 2013
One particularly interesting anomaly is the dominance of Windows paired with Mongo on EC2 in the Updates test. It''s possible the Windows EC2 instance is running on a newer host than the Linux EC2 instance, but both are classified as m1.large.
Frameworks Round 5
TechEmpower
MAY 17, 2013
We''ve included Windows on EC2 results as a separate set of data within the results view but caution that the results should be considered preliminary. Prior to installing the SSD, the i7 hardware with traditional magnetic disks was only two to three times quicker than the EC2 instances.
Framework Benchmarks Round 8
TechEmpower
DECEMBER 17, 2013
On EC2, the Netty and Vert.x The maximum query and update performance for Mongo on EC2 is substantially higher than MySQL. Merry Christmas web framework performance aficionados!
Framework Benchmarks Round 12
TechEmpower
FEBRUARY 25, 2016
Furthermore, due to the modestly rushed nature (at least on our side) of Round 12, we elected to not capture Amazon EC2 results for this Round. Round 12 of the ongoing Web Framework Benchmarks project is now available! A race against the clock.
Frameworks Round 4
TechEmpower
MAY 2, 2013
Onion , a C platform contributed by Coralbits is now included in the EC2 JSON serialization test and the results are extremely impressive, clocking in over 52,000 JSON responses per second.
Frameworks Round 3
TechEmpower
APRIL 22, 2013
Openresty takes the lead for multiple queries on EC2. We''ve previously posted two rounds of results of benchmarking many web application platforms and frameworks. The community''s response remains strong! We have really enjoyed your comments, advice, questions, criticism, and pull requests.
Pinterest – a case study in capital efficiency
The Equity Kicker
MAY 22, 2012
Pinterest now supports 18m users with growth running at 50% per month with the following: Amazon costs are around $39k for S3 and $30k for EC2 (I assume per month). They have 275 EC2 instances.
Frameworks Round 6
TechEmpower
JULY 2, 2013
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.
One million HTTP RPS without load balancing is easy
TechEmpower
MARCH 4, 2014
you''ll be able to see the other test types on Peak''s hardware alongside our i7 workstations and the EC2 instances we''ve tested in all previous rounds. As we and our collaborators prepare Round 9 of our Framework Benchmarks project, we had an epiphany: With high-performance software, a single modern server processes over 1 million HTTP requests per second. Five months ago, Google talked about load-balancing to achieve 1 million requests per second.
Standing Cloud Launches Business Edition
Feld Thoughts
JULY 8, 2010
Currently, the easiest setup is with Rackspace, where Standing Cloud can automatically assign a billing account to you; this easy setup is coming soon for GoGrid and Amazon EC2. In March I wrote about Standing Cloud ’s public launch of a free service to test drive open source applications. As reported today in TechCrunch, Standing Cloud has now launched it’s Business Edition , a service that enables users to also host applications on any of four cloud providers.
Web Framework Performance - Startup Founders Need to See These Numbers
SoCal CTO
MARCH 28, 2013
I was also surprised by the performance improvement on dedicated hardware as compared to EC2 instances of roughly 10x. In Web Framework Benchmarks , there are some very interesting and surprising numbers around the performance of various web frameworks.
Standing Cloud Launches Trial Edition
Feld Thoughts
MARCH 15, 2010
You don’t need an Amazon EC2 or Rackspace account, as with “appliance&# providers. Not long after I posted about Dave Jilk’s experience with the Pogoplug , he started using the phrase “Pogoplug Simple&# to describe one of the goals of Standing Cloud. The idea is that technology products should be so easy to set up and use that the experience is vaguely unsatisfying – you feel like you didn’t do anything.
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
SoCal CTO
OCTOBER 23, 2007
The focus was S3 - storage service, EC2 - their compute cloud, their queuing system, and their flexible payment system. The EC2 is very similar to having a Linux box in a colocation facility. This would seem to be a good case for us to separate off matching and making that a more scalable operation on EC2. I went to an event by Amazon on their Amazon Web Services in Santa Monica today.
The Best SLA I’ve Seen In A While
Feld Thoughts
MARCH 24, 2010
Machines and clouds fail, even on EC2. My first company, Feld Technologies, didn’t have contracts. Instead, we had a one page PSA (professional services agreement) that spelled out in English that we charged $X per hour, would do our best, and our invoices were due upon receipt. We never had a single legal issue with a client, although we had a number of tense moments which we almost always solved successful by “doing our best.”
How Not To Run Your Own Technology Startup
YoungUpstarts
SEPTEMBER 18, 2012
Amazon EC2 – Computing, server management, hosting. by Ian Smith of Captricity. This is not about running a startup badly, it’s about not doing the things that are not core to your business.
Developer Focus: Dominic St Pierre, Focus Centric
YoungUpstarts
FEBRUARY 6, 2012
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.
Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 43: Dakin Sloss and Ajeet Singh
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 3, 2016
Prior to Aster, Ajeet worked at Oracle where he was part of the team that first launched Oracle Database to the Amazon EC2 cloud. In large companies innovators have to work twice as hard – they spend time fighting the system. In a startup, your ideas turn into reality really, really fast. A startup founder needs to never lose sight of the vision, but be extremely adaptable to pretty much everything else. Lots of people have visions. Most are hallucinations.
Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 43: Dakin Sloss and Ajeet Singh
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 3, 2016
Prior to Aster, Ajeet worked at Oracle where he was part of the team that first launched Oracle Database to the Amazon EC2 cloud. In large companies innovators have to work twice as hard – they spend time fighting the system. In a startup, your ideas turn into reality really, really fast. A startup founder needs to never lose sight of the vision, but be extremely adaptable to pretty much everything else. Lots of people have visions. Most are hallucinations.
Twitter and Facebook
Andrew Payne
MARCH 23, 2009
“EC2 down”). Why do we need Twitter and Facebook? (esp. after Facebook’s redesign, making it much more Twitter-like). One reason: tweets are 100% public, Facebook status updates are (generally) not. As such, the collective tweet-stream is a great source of near-real-time information. Lately, I find myself searching more than tweeting, mostly to find current info or if others are sharing my current problem (e.g.
Benchmarking Cassandra Scalability on AWS - Over a million writes per second
techblog.netflix.com
NOVEMBER 26, 2011
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.
Choosing Internet Platforms
SoCal CTO
JUNE 14, 2008
Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. Amazon EC2 - uses it for natural language processing. Would never put a user request to an EC2 instance. A couple of the more interesting ones: Amazon EC2 Google App Engine Salesforce.com Force IBM’s Blue CloudI'm blogging from the CalTech Enterprise Forum. The topic is: Betting Your Company On An Internet Platform?
Games Are Different
Andrew Payne
NOVEMBER 22, 2010
EC2, S3) removes most up-front capital requirements. I’ve become generally negative on most pure software projects. I think it’s very hard to build large value there, for a variety of reasons: It’s insanely crowded; lots of people code these days. Open-source stacks make it easier than ever to crank things out. Cloud-based hosting (e.g. If you’re successful, it’s easy to get copied.
Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 28, 2011
They then launched processing capabilities (EC2) and we startups suddenly didn’t need to buy production servers.
Amazon Web Services Meetup- London
Jason Ball
JANUARY 29, 2009
Computing and AWS, with details on S3, EC2, CloudFront and the other services! I received this in an email today, in case anyone is interested in learning more about Amazon's services in Europe: Amazon Web Services Technology. Evangelist for Europe Simone Brunozzi and Cohesive co-founder Alexis. Richardson will be hosting the next AWS Meetup in London on Cloud. Details of this free evening event are as follows: When: Wednesday. 4th February , 6.30pm.
How 99Designs.com came to be
Sophia Perl of Wisdom
AUGUST 27, 2011
Consider using Amazon EC2, 99Designs uses it, they get 5.25TB of images uploaded frequently, EC2 helped them scale with customer demand. This is interesting because I personally wonder why Amazon keeps Mechanical Turk and EC2 under the Amazon brand. I love hearing stories of entrepreneurs, it keeps me motivated and there are always great lessons to be learned.
The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 5: Customer Relationship Hypotheses
Steve Blank
APRIL 15, 2011
cloud, ec2, Amazon Web Services, etc.). The Stanford Lean LaunchPad class was an experiment in a new model of teaching startup entrepreneurship. This post is part five. Parts one through four are here , Syllabus is here. . Week 5 of the class.
Cloud load testing
Guy Nirpaz
JUNE 12, 2010
So far, we’re using various cloud services to run our business: Google Applications – for mail, calendar and documents and our internal wiki Beanstalkapp – as our subversion code repository Balsamiq – as our online mockup service Dropbox for file sharing and of course Amazon EC2 as our deployment environment for testing and production Now days, we’re looking for a good cloud load testing solution.
Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 9, 2010
At the time we viewed Amazon’s offering, EC2 as too nascent. Today Factual announced that it raised $25 million from Andreessen Horowitz & Index Ventures.
Utility computing for the web and startups
BeyondVC
NOVEMBER 3, 2006
When I asked him how he would do it, he quite simply said Amazon – Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) and Amazon S3 for storage. If you are hugely successful, then you don’t get caught with your pants down because you have the opportunity to quickly load a few more virtualized images on the Amazon EC2 infrastructure and pay more for that usage – bandwidth, storage, and compute time.
Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 5, 2010
At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. This version is the shorter, ADHD version.
Techies? Write Your Own Ticket In Southern California
blog.socaltech.com
NOVEMBER 5, 2010
cloud computing (Amazon AWS and EC2, etc.) For bonus points, make sure the back end uses Amazon EC2 and S3.
5 Infrastructure Tips for Startups
blog.adaptiveblue.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
EC2 - The Elastic Compute Cloud Service EC2 is essentially a grid in the box. You then can ask EC2 to start instances with your configuration on the fly. EC2 is a powerful service, but it is still evolving. AdaptiveBlue Blog Installing is easy!
The Googlization of IT
BeyondVC
OCTOBER 27, 2009
Yes there are public clouds like Amazon EC2 which is now also offering virtualized private clouds. Today I took a sales team from a portfolio company to meet with a couple of senior IT executives at a major retail company. Towards the end of the meeting, it started to become quite clear to me the effect that Google and the web has had on IT to date and where it was going.
The bar is higher
This is going to be BIG.
MARCH 10, 2011
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. It has never been so easy to get a startup up and off the ground these days. Scaling and succeeding is hard, but just to get from napkin to prototype and some users is so much less of a hurdle than it was previously.
Cloud computing for SMBs
BeyondVC
NOVEMBER 17, 2008
Rightscale is an on-ramp to Amazon EC2 and other clouds and provides automate systems management. Cloud this, Cloud that – the word cloud is clearly an overhyped word and reminds me of the beginning of the hype around hosted models and ASPs (application service providers) in the late 90s and the term SAAS today.
A framework for categorizing and comparing cloud platforms
bijoor.me
MARCH 26, 2014
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The Last Lean Startup Bundle: 48 hours to claim $3,000,000 in prizes
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 7, 2011
I chose Amazon Web Services to be our marquee reward, and not just for the obvious reason that so many of you are - right this very moment – already hosting on AWS EC2. The Lean Startup Book launches in just under a week.
Do you believe in the Red Shift theory?
BeyondVC
SEPTEMBER 5, 2007
Think about Amazon’s S3 and EC2 which I have written about before as utility storage and processing for the masses. The first time I heard the term Red Shift was from my portfolio company, Greenplum. Greenplum has used red shift to characterize the nature of the existing database market where exponential data growth driven by network computing and internet applications have outstripped the capacity of existing mainstream vendors.
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