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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

The topic is: Betting Your Company On An Internet Platform? Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. However, these platforms could be interesting for prototype and pilot solutions. The other conclusion was that you need to have a migration path from the platform. It's funny.

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Frameworks Round 6

TechEmpower

July marks the fourth month of our ongoing project measuring the performance of web application frameworks and platforms. 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. View Round 6 results now. We are hiring.

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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

InfoChachkie

“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. From day one we focused on customers.

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Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups

Both Sides of the Table

For decades the “layering&# of technology has allowed us to develop IT systems and networks in a specialized way that let’s best-of-breed technology solutions to emerge at each layer of the stack and to allow people with different skill sets to specialize in key areas without having to have competence in every technology arena.

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

Both Sides of the Table

encouraging an open platform where 3rd parties can make lots of money]. Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing].

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Bringing The Benefit Of Managed Cloud To Enterprises, With Metacloud

socalTECH

Amazon EC2 would be considered fully managed cloud, which also happens to be off premise. We are also pushing out updates all the time to our customers. We spent lots of time with enterprises where technology was not their core product. One of our customers has 6,500 separate and distinct applications.

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

Both Sides of the Table

encouraging an open platform where 3rd parties can make lots of money]. If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. Yes, social networks of 2010 have much better usability, have better developed 3rd-party platforms and many more people are connected.