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Framework Benchmarks Round 7

TechEmpower

After a several-month hiatus, Round 7 of our project measuring the performance of web application frameworks and platforms is available! This helps reduce the perceived severity of configuration problems since they can be addressed in the next run, which is only a month away. Happy Halloween fans of web development frameworks!

Framework 507
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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. The term ‘cloud computing’ only caught on much later.

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Framework Benchmarks

TechEmpower

Authors Note: Were using the word "framework" loosely to refer to platforms, micro-frameworks, and full-stack frameworks. 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. Framework Benchmarks.

Framework 560
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Frameworks Round 1

TechEmpower

Authors'' Note: We''re using the word "framework" loosely to refer to platforms, micro-frameworks, and full-stack frameworks. This is an EC2 test run on a pair of Large instances. We''ve 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. Motivation.

Framework 544
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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]. 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. They looked unstoppable.

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

Both Sides of the Table

At the time we viewed Amazon’s offering, EC2 as too nascent. They realized that as entreprises were increasingly using many different Cloud-based applications they didn’t have good cross-platform tools for deployment, monitoring and decommissioning. Cloud Data Platform. Okta solves this and more. Business Logic.

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