TechEmpower

MARCH 4, 2014

As we and our collaborators prepare Round 9 of our Framework Benchmarks project, we had an epiphany: With high-performance software, a single modern server processes over 1 million HTTP requests per second. Five months ago, Google talked about load-balancing to achieve 1 million requests per second. Running 30s test @ [link].

EC2 514

EC2 TechEmpower Java Google 514

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google]. As I write these words I’m aware that I could practically change the words AOL and Facebook for much of this section and with a few factual tweaks it might not be noticeable to the reader which of the firms I was talking about. Google acquired YouTube for $1.65

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

To this day I’m astounded that IBM, Google, Sun, Microsoft and others didn’t offer this service and Amazon did. At the time we viewed Amazon’s offering, EC2 as too nascent. In case you don’t know Applied Semantics it’s Google AdSense. Work it did. Think about it.

Startup 343

Startup Technical Review S3 Services 343