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CapLinked Hit By Amazon Downtime

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Manhattan Beach-based CapLinked , which operates a software service to help companies communicate with investors, is one of the firms caught by the widespread Amazon EC2 downtime today. CapLinked said in its blog that its site is temporarily unavailable due to Amazon's hosting service issues. READ MORE>>.

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Frameworks Round 3

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With that breadth we decided to move the project''s results to a stand-alone site separate from this blog. The Go community is helping diagnose the problem and we expect its database performance to be improved in Round 4 or soon thereafter. Openresty takes the lead for multiple queries on EC2. View Round 3 results now.

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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

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“By the way, back then it was just Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud [EC2] and both ‘Elastic’ and ‘Cloud’ were candidate key terms. I taught a somewhat crazy course about writing and deploying a scalable website in Ruby on Rails and deploying it in EC2. It helps to think positive and focus on the awesome things that are indeed possible.

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5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California

SoCal Delicious

With LaunchPad’s help, more than 61 Orange County companies have raised more than $97 million in startup capital, seed, and series A investments — and much of that money comes from Valley investors betting on their neighbors to the south. blog comments powered by Disqus. Advertise on VentureBeat. most popular. most shared.

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Framework Benchmarks

TechEmpower

About What we do Portfolio People Blog Contact. This is an EC2 test run on a pair of Large instances. Weve done our best, but we are not experts in most of them so help is welcome! We ran each test on EC2 and our i7 hardware. First up is plain JSON serialization on Amazon EC2 large instances. March 28, 2013.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. Suddenly we were all creating blogs on Blogger.com, Typepad & WordPress. We started uploading images of ourselves to our blogs. But the masses didn’t want to blog. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2).