article thumbnail

Technical Signs Of A Well-Managed Business

YoungUpstarts

Today, you can measure if a company is well-managed from how it implements and uses technology. You can run your databases on top of Oracle’s cloud service while keeping the computing parts of your application in AWS EC2. The use of a proxy server is another sign of a well-managed business. Security as a Process.

article thumbnail

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. St Pierre was looking for a software package that met the needs of a freelancer – he still freelances – and helped manage the steps of a contract process.

Developer 159
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

How Not To Run Your Own Technology Startup

YoungUpstarts

Workflow & Project Management. Lead Generation and Contact Management. WriteThat.Name – Automatic contact updating and management. Salesforce.com – Sales lead and sales pipeline management. Mailchimp – Mailing list management, especially for externally-visible lists. Backend Support.

article thumbnail

Which AWS Services Are SaaS?

The Startup Magazine

SaaS applications are delivered over the internet, and the service provider typically manages them. The most popular AWS services for SaaS providers are Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon Elastic Beanstalk. Elastic Beanstalk is a simple way to deploy and manage web applications in the cloud.

EC2 121
article thumbnail

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.

EC2 68
article thumbnail

How 99Designs.com came to be

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

Consider using Amazon EC2, 99Designs uses it, they get 5.25TB of images uploaded frequently, EC2 helped them scale with customer demand. Initial team members of founding team should be 4-5 people – 2 developers, 1 designer, 1 product manager, and maybe 1 marketing person.

EC2 53
article thumbnail

FinTech Innovation Lab Launch Event – June 2, 2011

David Teten

Panel: Cary Davis , Managing Director, Warburg Pincus, Moderator: Ben Fried, Chief Information Officer, Google, runs in-house technology. We’re advising and relationship management, at the end of the day. The trick is delivering business insights over this channel: use social networks to support relationship management.