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Framework Benchmarks Round 7

TechEmpower

One particularly interesting anomaly is the dominance of Windows paired with Mongo on EC2 in the Updates test. The performance is only slightly lower than the same pairing on i7, where in most cases our i7s (2600K workstations, to be precise) and EC2 (m1.large) large) instances differ by a factor of seven or more.

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How Not To Run Your Own Technology Startup

YoungUpstarts

Pivotal Tracker – Engineering planning, tracking, task assignments (+mobile). Amazon EC2 – Computing, server management, hosting. Recurly – Recurring billing from within our application. Workflow & Project Management. Trello – Planning for business development, design, some strategy work. Backend Support.

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Techies? Write Your Own Ticket In Southern California

blog.socaltech.com

My conclusion: if you’re a software engineer, with good technical background and ability, you can pretty much write your own ticket in Southern California. cloud computing (Amazon AWS and EC2, etc.) For bonus points, make sure the back end uses Amazon EC2 and S3. Why do I say that? technologies (interactivity UI etc.).

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A framework for categorizing and comparing cloud platforms

bijoor.me

1: Software Defined Datacenter Users : Infrastructure Engineers. into Application Containers Examples : Google App Engine , Heroku Buildpacks , CloudFoundry Buildpacks. 4: Model-Driven PaaS Users : Business Engineers. 5: App Services Users : Citizen Developers.

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

Both Sides of the Table

While you dialed AOL to get on the Internet, the goal of AOL was to keep you locked into their proprietary content and thus earned the classification of “walled garden.&# They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc. Social Networking Will Split Into Layers.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

In recent years, weve also got great new options all up and down the stack, in particular things like Amazon EC2 and RightScale (none of which would be possible without the free software movement). Since that time we've seen a massive change from product engineering to financial engineering.

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Frameworks Round 1

TechEmpower

This is an EC2 test run on a pair of Large instances. Weak performance can also cause premature scale pain, user experience degradation, and associated penalties levied by search engines. We ran each test on EC2 and our i7 hardware. First up is plain JSON serialization on Amazon EC2 large instances. Since Vert.x

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