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Framework Benchmarks Round 7

TechEmpower

Happy Halloween fans of web development frameworks! 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)

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CrowdStrike Extends To AWS

socalTECH

CrowdStrike , the developer of endpoint protection software and cybersecurity tools with a big presence in Orange County, is extending its software to Amazon Web Services, the company said today. The new software is billed, much like AWS, on usage metering. Pricing on the new service was not announced by CrowdStrike.

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DreamHost Readies Wider OpenStack Rollout

socalTECH

OpenStack is the set of open-source software designed to allow any hosting firm to offer up similar services to Amazon EC2; the OpenStack project was originally based on technology developed by Rackspace and has since spread widely to other ISPs.

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SmartSound Extends Online Soundtrack Service

socalTECH

Northridge-based SmartSound Software , which develops an online software as well as PC-based software for creating royalty free soundtracks, said earlier this week that it has extended its service to allow users to customize and create tracks indefinitely, once purchased from the company. READ MORE>>.

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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

A very interesting topic, especially for those of us involved in developing for start-ups. Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. Level 1 & 2 Burden is still on the developers, you still have infrastructure. Must design your application differently to live on top of the platform.

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

They then launched processing capabilities (EC2) and we startups suddenly didn’t need to buy production servers. Amazon allowed 22-year-old tech developers to launch companies without even raising capital. Every startup I knew in 2005 (when I started my second company) was using this. Amazon will surely keep moving up the stack.

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Framework Benchmarks

TechEmpower

This is an EC2 test run on a pair of Large instances. Among the many factors to consider when choosing a web development framework, raw performance is easy to objectively measure. We ran each test on EC2 and our i7 hardware. First up is plain JSON serialization on Amazon EC2 large instances. Starting again with EC2.

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