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Framework Benchmarks Round 10

TechEmpower

We retired our in-house i7-2600K hardware environment for Round 10, and we changed our Amazon EC2 environment to c3.large Go remains a strong performer in the smaller-server scenario as demonstrated by our EC2 c3.large These contributions have improved the project''s toolset and added many new framework test implementations.

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5 Infrastructure Tips for Startups

blog.adaptiveblue.com

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. December 27, 2007 at 9:31 pm 36 Startup Tips: From Software Engineering to PR and More! : Startups!!!

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

crowdSPRING Blog

Useful comparison of Amazon vs. Rackspace clouds & why Mixpanel is moving to EC2 – [link]. Lessons Learned From Helping Over 150 Startups With Marketing Part 1 – [link]. Employee Equity: Restricted Stock and RSUs on #mbamondays – [link]. Lean Startups aren’t Cheap Startups – [link].

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Scaling lessons learned at Dropbox, part 1

eranki.tumblr.com

S3/EC2 for storing and serving file blocks. have serious security problems and seem to be able to weather a small PR storm. For those that are curious about what we chose and why, the software we used was: Python for virtually everything; not more than a couple thousand lines of C. nginx for the frontend server. 5:46pm |.

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How To Bootstrap Your Startup

www.readwriteweb.com

Jackie: I would recommend instead Amazons EC2 and S3 platforms. That said, I dont think EC2 is reliable enough to depend upon, and the entire reputation of a startup can hinge on that. If our aim was to raise financing and employ these people directly, we’d have burnt through $5-7 million before launch.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

I sold to you & PR function back in the day (SuperMac) and others to the many companies dating back, but finally E.piphany ~ MediaMap (now is Cision). Very helpful and worth taking time to go through most of them. Thanks for a Great Post. Reply Mary B. , on June 5, 2011 at 1:15 am said: Stumbled on your page by serendipity. Amazing list.

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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. However, given that it is a well-understood norm, it gives you a bit of an edge in the PR battle should someone decide to just drop a 0-day on you.).

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